Posted by Admin on March 24th, 2010
Could HTML 5 lead to the downfall of Adobe’s Flash? One can only hope. I have always said that our dependence on one company’s technology can not be a good thing for web designers, web developers or general web site users either.
Check out more on the topic here:
Since it was introduced in the mid-’90s, Adobe’s Flash has remained one of the most popular ways for developers to create animations, video and complex interactive features for the Web–regardless of what browser or operating system an end user is running. According to Adobe, which makes the Flash Player and various Flash development tools, 98 percent of Internet-connected desktop computers have Flash installed, and 95 percent have the most recent version, Flash Player 10.
Check out the rest of Technology Review’s thoughts on this topic here.
Posted by Admin on March 17th, 2010
Facebook is beating Google in the US? Say it ain’t so! According to many Web news source out there today, this happened for the very first time last week.
Here is a little more about the upset:
Social-networking star Facebook surpassed Google to become the most visited website in the United States for the first time last week, industry analysts showed.
Facebook’s homepage finished the week ending March 13 as the most visited site in the country, according to industry tracker Hitwise.
The "important milestone," as described by Hitwise director of research Heather Dougherty, came as Facebook enjoyed a massive 185 percent increase in visits in the same period, compared to the same week in 2009.
Check out more here. So is this the first shot fired across the social networking/web site popularity wars?
Posted by Admin on March 15th, 2010
The web development world can learn a lesson here about keeping developers happy with their platform. On the flip side of the development world, many people are unhappy with Apple and the iPhone development. Tim Bray, the well-known software architect and blogger, is joining Google to help rally even more developers around the Android mobile operating system.
Bray is the co-inventor of the XML Web standard, and most recently worked at Sun Microsystems. In a blog post, he explains that he is drawn to Google in part because he hates the iPhone, or at least its closed and controlling environment from a developer’s perspective.
Read the rest of the story here. It is an interesting insight on what you need to do to keep a developer of any kind, happy.
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