Monday, April 20, 2009

Adobe prepares Flash for high-def TV in the home

This is an interesting announcement, via Silicon Republic
Adobe prepares Flash for high-def TV in the home
Adobe has formed alliances with leading electronics and media giants, from Intel and Netflix to Disney and the New York Times, to bring its Flash platform to high-definition (HD) Blu-ray players and internet-enabled TVs.

Now, will iPhone 3.0 finally get Flash support?

Thursday, April 16, 2009

JavaScript

A brief (if slightly harsh) history of why JavaScript became the world's most popular programming language...

The World's Most Misunderstood Programming Language Has Become the World's Most Popular Programming Language

Sunday, April 12, 2009

Monday, April 6, 2009

Is Google an "immoral menace"?

Henry Porter, writing in the Guardian, thinks so.

If indeed a new era of global responsibility has come into being with measures that actually restrain banks and isolate tax havens, it may be time for the planet's dominant economic powers to focus on the destructive, anti-civic forces of the internet. Exactly 20 years after Sir Tim Berners-Lee wrote the blueprint for the world wide web, the internet has become the host to a small number of dangerous WWMs - worldwide monopolies that sweep all before them with exuberant contempt for people's rights, their property and the past.


What do you guys think?

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