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  • Cutting Through PR-Speak - Part 1: HTML5 Video

    June 28th, 2010

    HTML5 has certainly been making the rounds in the news lately. With Apple's on-going PR campaign against Adobe's Flash technology, comes mounting misconceptions about what exactly HTML5 is, what it can do, and what it means for end-users.

    I hope to clarify several of the most glaring misconceptions over the next few posts. Today I'd like to focus on the most publicized and misunderstood issue of HTML5 video.

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  • Has Google Wave "maxed out" Web 2.0?

    November 27th, 2009

    As any software developer will tell you, there’s a limit to the number of times you can hack on a codebase before it’s no longer sustainable. When a piece of software, protocol, or standard of some kind is conceived, it is done with assumptions in mind. These assumptions ultimately lead to limitations, and those limitations ultimately necessitate the need to come up with clever workarounds or, in the worst case scenario – hacks.

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