It’s about the content, and people, not the presentation layer.
Blog posts I expect to start reading in the next few weeks and months: iPad rev. 2 will have x GSM chip/hardware costs $130 wtf? The real cost of the iPad / mobile operator subsidies True battery performance is only 4 hours Tethering issues Why doesn’t it do x? I really need x, it’s a deal-breaker…
There are enough coworking spaces in Brighton, and my vision is not simply to rent desks out (while those are of course needed), but to create a destination — a club house maybe. Somewhere people can gather, work, meet, learn, and collaborate.
Or “online cash” – since I don’t have to hand my physical cash to Visa so they can give it to you for that coffee I just bought. Of course they’d like it that way, hence the push of “mobile wallets”, owned by guess who! (If not owned, reliant on the infrastructure of – this…
I want to click a button or hit a keyboard command to send a DM from my browser. So, scratching my own itch, I made a bookmarklet to do exactly that. It doesn’t do anything else, and it could certainly do it better.. here it is: Drag this link to your bookmarks bar: send DM Then…
Update: I stopped writing this post, it got too long, and I got bored. Also, it looks like Meebo might have just pwned RockMelt anyway, with their MiniBar. This is an ever-changing space, and will require a followup post! It’s too early to form a proper opinion on this one, but here’s some initial thoughts….
With the danger of focusing this blog a bit too much on iPhone and iPad related posts, here’s my mockup of how the upcoming iPhone OS 4 application switcher might look. Some reports are suggesting that a double push on the home key would bring this up, globally, regardless of what is the current…
You wouldn’t get much further on iPlayer than the screen you posted. All of the videos are in Flash.
not true. in fact i was very careful to post the iphone version of the iplayer interface, because it streams movie files that the iphone recognises. as does the ipad, and almost every other device capable of video playback.
Ahh, What does the iPhone use to display the video? HTML5 video tag?
quicktime i believe. the video is not deisplayed in page. it’s played by the os.. just like youtube on the iphone. http://www.apple.com/iphone/specs.html
Yes, H.264
Flash dominates gaming on the web, and for that – it’s a shame.
I don’t think it’s about the presentation layer, I think it’s about control of the root.Does the emasculated web (ie: the app-store, neo-palladiated version) allow the use of proxies / anonymisers etc so people in Iran or China or America say can post comments on twitter without being routinely spied on or having their content blocked?I wouldn’t have thought so. Maybe it’s possible to remain untraced using HTML, maybe it’s not. Maybe anonymisers only go so far and won’t stop dangerous government/corporate snooping/censorship… but with the emasculated web, you’ve got one more nail in the coffin. Someone’s assumed the right to control what you do on your own machine. Personally I think flash sucks… and really, the absence of flash is just a strategic play for the old BMV producing industries… the real issue is the root, and the fact that the way Apple have assumed ownership of it, profoundly changes the DNA that the web as we know it was created from. It’s a profoundly retrogressive step. It’s the past trying to control the future.