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 [...]
I’ve mentioned my enthusiasm for Last.fm recently. It’s an interesting service whose value isn’t immediately obvious when you first look at it. It plays music? You think. Why would I want to tell them what I’m listening to? You ask. Aren’t I just giving them information for nothing? You wonder.
The value becomes apparent when Last.fm [...]
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 [...]
From Ars Technica: Canadian Privacy Commissioner: Just say no to intrusive DRM.
It’s rare, but once in awhile, you hear something come out of the canadian government that actually makes sense. It’s very nice to see that our privacy commissioner has some excellent people guiding her through the current morass of copyright crap that’s being forced [...]
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