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While I’m making predictions, I think this is also the year Flash finally started its long slow exit from the web. With HTML5 gaining more and more interest and cool capabilities, the need for a dedicated browser plugin to render animations and play sounds has all-but vanished.
Now it’s just a matter of time before developers [...]
What do you do when you’re stuck in an airplane at 6am and the cabin lights are off and your seat’s reading light doesn’t work? I guess you could listen to music or watch something on an iPod-like device. But what if you really feel like reading?
As luck would have it, Instapaper Free makes a [...]
I just learned about this handy bookmarklet after thinking about how easy it is to publish linked content to things like Tumblr. And I got to thinking, why aren’t I using this for my blogs? Like, this one?
Sure enough, the good people at Automattic have already done this and it’s been available for quite some [...]
The Future of Last.fm Radio APIs – Last.fm Web Services Discussions – Last.fm
Last.fm has never had a public radio API, although we’ve tolerated third-party clients using the undocumented calls that our client uses. This is finally about to change – we’re going to make a public, documented streaming API available to everyone who has an [...]
The popular music site Last.fm was a fun experiment for me. They announced a couple of days ago that they were going to start charging a subscription fee for use of their streaming music. US, UK and German listeners will still get the full service for free.
I don’t envy them their position of having to [...]
I was just doing a little poking through the latest of Nightly of Firefox, as I often do, and took a peak in the Add-ons manager’s Recommended Add-ons tab. I noticed ScribeFire (née Performancing) was sitting there with a new version number and a spiffy-looking screenshot so I decided to give it a whirl.
Normally I [...]
An interesting thing happened last Friday. It seems Microsoft is making a strong bid for Yahoo! While much is being made about how this new conglomeration of hugeness will present a worthy opponent to Google, what I’m more concerned about is how this will affect users of Yahoo’s services.
Let’s paint a hypothetical picture, 5 years [...]
or, “I’ve quit facebook and I want everyone to know about it”. I was going to do my usual, post a link to a google search for the phrase, “facebook sucks” and then talk about a few of the links therein, but I think this time, I’m just gonna write it up. This is an [...]
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