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Tuesday, July 27, 2010
[Google Fast Flip] 5 Tools For Integrating HTML5 Video in Your Website
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IF it time to jump on the HTML 5 bandwagon, this is the time, and here are some tips.
5 Tools For Integrating HTML5 Video in Your Website
5 Tools For Integrating HTML5 Video in Your Website , the better way to do hosting. Learn more about Rackspace's hosting solutions , the fact is, more and more mobile or low-powered devices are being shipped either without or with very minimal support for Flash video. Web developers who design sites that utilize video need to be cognizant of this reality and design and build their sites accordingly. While it's great that video hosting services like support HTML5 and that solutions for larger sites are available from places like , that still leaves users who want to host their own video content — but don't necessarily use a platform like Brightcove — in a bit of a predicament. After all, in a perfect world, everyone who visits a website should be able to view video, whether they are on a desktop or on an iPhone. Fortunately, there are a number of great free tools available that will let you serve video via HTML5 and also support Flash, in the event that a visitor's browser doesn't support HTML5 (or in some cases, the video codec being used with your HTML5 code)....
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IF it time to jump on the HTML 5 bandwagon, this is the time, and here are some tips.
5 Tools For Integrating HTML5 Video in Your Website
5 Tools For Integrating HTML5 Video in Your Website , the better way to do hosting. Learn more about Rackspace's hosting solutions , the fact is, more and more mobile or low-powered devices are being shipped either without or with very minimal support for Flash video. Web developers who design sites that utilize video need to be cognizant of this reality and design and build their sites accordingly. While it's great that video hosting services like support HTML5 and that solutions for larger sites are available from places like , that still leaves users who want to host their own video content — but don't necessarily use a platform like Brightcove — in a bit of a predicament. After all, in a perfect world, everyone who visits a website should be able to view video, whether they are on a desktop or on an iPhone. Fortunately, there are a number of great free tools available that will let you serve video via HTML5 and also support Flash, in the event that a visitor's browser doesn't support HTML5 (or in some cases, the video codec being used with your HTML5 code)....
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[Google Fast Flip] MyCityWay: Portals Are Back, This Time For Mobile
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Portal comeback
MyCityWay: Portals Are Back, This Time For Mobile
MyCityWay: Portals Are Back, This Time For Mobile Last week in New York, I met up with the founders of . It's a portal for location-based mobile applications for city navigation, available on iPhone, iPod, iPad and Android. Around 50 different services are currently available in the MyCityWay app. Despite the 90's style user interface, in some ways MyCityWay points to the future of mobile apps - because it offers up contextual and useful information to your mobile device, based on your location. The company's latest release was launched last Friday and it's focused on discoverability. I met with MyCityWay co-founders Puneet Mehta and Sonpreet Bhatia to find out more. MyCityWay started out as a New York City iPhone app, but it has plans to be available in 40 cities on iPhone as well as other smart phone platforms. In effect, MyCityWay is a modern-day guidebook for cities. The current apps features 50 "hyper-local apps" and they're presented in a portal-like interface that reminds me of what Yahoo or Excite used to offer on the Web in the 90s. The app targets both city locals and tourists. I first became aware of MyCityWay when it was pointed out to me by Mobile futurist Adam Greenfi...
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Portal comeback
MyCityWay: Portals Are Back, This Time For Mobile
MyCityWay: Portals Are Back, This Time For Mobile Last week in New York, I met up with the founders of . It's a portal for location-based mobile applications for city navigation, available on iPhone, iPod, iPad and Android. Around 50 different services are currently available in the MyCityWay app. Despite the 90's style user interface, in some ways MyCityWay points to the future of mobile apps - because it offers up contextual and useful information to your mobile device, based on your location. The company's latest release was launched last Friday and it's focused on discoverability. I met with MyCityWay co-founders Puneet Mehta and Sonpreet Bhatia to find out more. MyCityWay started out as a New York City iPhone app, but it has plans to be available in 40 cities on iPhone as well as other smart phone platforms. In effect, MyCityWay is a modern-day guidebook for cities. The current apps features 50 "hyper-local apps" and they're presented in a portal-like interface that reminds me of what Yahoo or Excite used to offer on the Web in the 90s. The app targets both city locals and tourists. I first became aware of MyCityWay when it was pointed out to me by Mobile futurist Adam Greenfi...
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Labels: android, apple, apps, iOS
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Tuesday, July 20, 2010
[Google Fast Flip] Go To Barnes & Noble, Get A Free E-book
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Another battle in the ebook wars
Go To Barnes & Noble, Get A Free E-book
Go To Barnes & Noble, Get A Free E-book ? If so, get thee to a Barnes & Noble store to participate in the new Fun and Free e-books promotion. It's a pretty simple concept: you waltz into a Barnes & Noble store, get an access code, then download a free e-book. Done and done. The promotion runs for the next five weeks, and is also compatible with the B&N e-reader software that runs on your laptop, BlackBerry, or iPhone (or whatever). Steve Jobs Spars With Gawker Blogger Over Revolutions, Freedom, and Porn Adobe Flash-Enabled Sites Are Highlighted Upon Updating To Android 2.2 Central Command Turns To Twitter To Solve The Gulf Oil Spill. Uh Oh. After 3+ Years, Alex Payne Quits Twitter To Create "A Bank That Doesn't Suck" Tweets In Buzz: It's Complicated — Well, Maybe Political...
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Another battle in the ebook wars
Go To Barnes & Noble, Get A Free E-book
Go To Barnes & Noble, Get A Free E-book ? If so, get thee to a Barnes & Noble store to participate in the new Fun and Free e-books promotion. It's a pretty simple concept: you waltz into a Barnes & Noble store, get an access code, then download a free e-book. Done and done. The promotion runs for the next five weeks, and is also compatible with the B&N e-reader software that runs on your laptop, BlackBerry, or iPhone (or whatever). Steve Jobs Spars With Gawker Blogger Over Revolutions, Freedom, and Porn Adobe Flash-Enabled Sites Are Highlighted Upon Updating To Android 2.2 Central Command Turns To Twitter To Solve The Gulf Oil Spill. Uh Oh. After 3+ Years, Alex Payne Quits Twitter To Create "A Bank That Doesn't Suck" Tweets In Buzz: It's Complicated — Well, Maybe Political...
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[Google Fast Flip] Media Relations 101 for Your Startup
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Media Relations is a way to make money in the media market by guiding the blind through this new media storm.
Media Relations 101 for Your Startup
First off, you do not need a PR firm. The retainer is usually not worth it, especially for a young, growing startup because your product is still drastically changing and because your conversion rates are probably very low. As a startup that is looking to innovate in your industry, it usually does not make any sense for you to allow someone else to communicate your vision. PR firms do not always get it. Even with stellar communication skills, only you and your core team really understand the message and the vision. Danny Wong is the co-founder and lead evangelist of Blank Label, a provider of custom dress shirts. He has been featured in publications like ReadWriteWeb, FastCompany, ABCNews, FoxNews, BusinessWeek and more. He is also a 19-year-old evangelist and rockstar studying full-time at Bentley University. If you are a first-timer at PR, start small so you do not burn any important bridges (but be aware that every bridge counts). Start pitching to small blogs and websites in your niche and occasionally take a shot at medium-sized blogs. Once you start feeling more comfortable with your email pitch, and are making decent traction with small blogs and websites, move onto pitching...
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Media Relations is a way to make money in the media market by guiding the blind through this new media storm.
Media Relations 101 for Your Startup
First off, you do not need a PR firm. The retainer is usually not worth it, especially for a young, growing startup because your product is still drastically changing and because your conversion rates are probably very low. As a startup that is looking to innovate in your industry, it usually does not make any sense for you to allow someone else to communicate your vision. PR firms do not always get it. Even with stellar communication skills, only you and your core team really understand the message and the vision. Danny Wong is the co-founder and lead evangelist of Blank Label, a provider of custom dress shirts. He has been featured in publications like ReadWriteWeb, FastCompany, ABCNews, FoxNews, BusinessWeek and more. He is also a 19-year-old evangelist and rockstar studying full-time at Bentley University. If you are a first-timer at PR, start small so you do not burn any important bridges (but be aware that every bridge counts). Start pitching to small blogs and websites in your niche and occasionally take a shot at medium-sized blogs. Once you start feeling more comfortable with your email pitch, and are making decent traction with small blogs and websites, move onto pitching...
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Tuesday, July 13, 2010
[Google Fast Flip] Kindle Arrives on Android This Summer
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Another staked claimed by Amazon
Kindle Arrives on Android This Summer
Kindle is already available on the iPhone, iPad, and BlackBerry, but AndroidAndroid will join the mobile lineup in the next few months. The free app comes with all of the features you'd expect in a Kindle app: access to Amazon's half a million e-books, automatic sync of bookmarks, notes, and highlights, and the ability to read books in portrait or landscape mode. While Kindle for Android seems very similar to its iPhone and iPad counterparts, it does come with an additional feature: the ability to buy books through the app itself. iPhone and iPad users currently have to buy Kindle books via the SafariSafari mobile web browser because Amazon doesn't want to give up 30% of its book sales to its new e-book rival. There still aren'ta lot of details about Kindle for Android, but Amazon has created a landing page where Android owners can sign up for updates on the app. Oh, and for those with older Android phones, there's good news: Kindle for Android works on phones running Android 1.6 or better. With Apple and other book retailers challenging Amazon's dominance of the e-book market, the world's largest online retailer is responding by spreading its virtual library onto as many platforms...
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Kindle Arrives on Android This Summer
Kindle is already available on the iPhone, iPad, and BlackBerry, but AndroidAndroid will join the mobile lineup in the next few months. The free app comes with all of the features you'd expect in a Kindle app: access to Amazon's half a million e-books, automatic sync of bookmarks, notes, and highlights, and the ability to read books in portrait or landscape mode. While Kindle for Android seems very similar to its iPhone and iPad counterparts, it does come with an additional feature: the ability to buy books through the app itself. iPhone and iPad users currently have to buy Kindle books via the SafariSafari mobile web browser because Amazon doesn't want to give up 30% of its book sales to its new e-book rival. There still aren'ta lot of details about Kindle for Android, but Amazon has created a landing page where Android owners can sign up for updates on the app. Oh, and for those with older Android phones, there's good news: Kindle for Android works on phones running Android 1.6 or better. With Apple and other book retailers challenging Amazon's dominance of the e-book market, the world's largest online retailer is responding by spreading its virtual library onto as many platforms...
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Labels: amazon, android, google, kindle
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[Google Fast Flip] Open vs. Closed: Google Takes on Amazon and Apple in e-Books
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The ebooks wars are heating up
Open vs. Closed: Google Takes on Amazon and Apple in e-Books
KevinCTofel: Those pining for a #webOS Tablet could see one in the 3rd quarter. http://bit.ly/9yUUkG Seems an aggressive timeline to me. Open vs. Closed: Google Takes on Amazon and Apple in e-Books By Mathew Ingram May. 8, 2010, 9:00am PDT 1 Comment As it stands now, the e-book industry is dominated by two closed and proprietary giants: Amazon and Apple. Both have e-book platforms — the Kindle and the iPad — which they design, manufacture and control, and both have been busy trying to convince book publishers to do business with them, with Amazon pushing for lower prices and Apple giving in to publishers' demands for a more flexible approach. The landscape will change dramatically later this year, however, when Google is expected to launch a digital book-selling unit called Google Editions. The search company's entry promises to turn the e-book business into yet another battle in the ongoing war of Open vs. Closed. According to Google product manager Chris Palma, who described the search giant's plans at a recent publishing industry event in New York, it will start selling digital books in late June or July. And unlike books bought from either Apple or Amazon, which are locked ...
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The ebooks wars are heating up
Open vs. Closed: Google Takes on Amazon and Apple in e-Books
KevinCTofel: Those pining for a #webOS Tablet could see one in the 3rd quarter. http://bit.ly/9yUUkG Seems an aggressive timeline to me. Open vs. Closed: Google Takes on Amazon and Apple in e-Books By Mathew Ingram May. 8, 2010, 9:00am PDT 1 Comment As it stands now, the e-book industry is dominated by two closed and proprietary giants: Amazon and Apple. Both have e-book platforms — the Kindle and the iPad — which they design, manufacture and control, and both have been busy trying to convince book publishers to do business with them, with Amazon pushing for lower prices and Apple giving in to publishers' demands for a more flexible approach. The landscape will change dramatically later this year, however, when Google is expected to launch a digital book-selling unit called Google Editions. The search company's entry promises to turn the e-book business into yet another battle in the ongoing war of Open vs. Closed. According to Google product manager Chris Palma, who described the search giant's plans at a recent publishing industry event in New York, it will start selling digital books in late June or July. And unlike books bought from either Apple or Amazon, which are locked ...
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Labels: amazon, apple, ebooks, google
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Tuesday, July 06, 2010
[Google Fast Flip] Google Brings Android to Web TV
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A new front in the war for the living room is opening.
Google Brings Android to Web TV
If you thought that Web TV was a thing of the past, then Google's latest decision may come as a surprise. According to an article in this morning's Wall Street Journal, the company "is planning to introduce Android-based television software to developers at an event in May, according to people familiar with the matter." Android, the Google-created operating system seen on a number of different phones including Google's own Nexus One, would open Internet-enabled televisions to more content and create a marketplace for apps on what many thought might be a failed, Jetsons-like technology of times past. Internet-enabled televisions were an emerging trend at the Consumer Electronics Show in January, with applications like streaming-music provider Pandora and video chat service Skype becoming integrated on more and more devices out of the box. The decision to address developers suggests that the Internet giant may be hoping to kick-start a race to build applications for its TV platform, much in the same way that Google, Apple Inc. and others have courted developers for smartphones. The app-store approach has already begun to gain traction among some players in the TV market, too, aided b...
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A new front in the war for the living room is opening.
Google Brings Android to Web TV
If you thought that Web TV was a thing of the past, then Google's latest decision may come as a surprise. According to an article in this morning's Wall Street Journal, the company "is planning to introduce Android-based television software to developers at an event in May, according to people familiar with the matter." Android, the Google-created operating system seen on a number of different phones including Google's own Nexus One, would open Internet-enabled televisions to more content and create a marketplace for apps on what many thought might be a failed, Jetsons-like technology of times past. Internet-enabled televisions were an emerging trend at the Consumer Electronics Show in January, with applications like streaming-music provider Pandora and video chat service Skype becoming integrated on more and more devices out of the box. The decision to address developers suggests that the Internet giant may be hoping to kick-start a race to build applications for its TV platform, much in the same way that Google, Apple Inc. and others have courted developers for smartphones. The app-store approach has already begun to gain traction among some players in the TV market, too, aided b...
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Labels: android, google, google tv
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[Google Fast Flip] Apple-Adobe Feud: Is Flash as Bad as Jobs Says?
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Another take on the Adobe vs Apple
Apple-Adobe Feud: Is Flash as Bad as Jobs Says?
By Tom Kaneshige CIO - At the heart of the great war of words between Apple CEO Steve Jobs and Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen lies a simple question: Is Adobe Flash really bad technology? If the answer is yes, then Apple is right to ban it from the iPhone platform. If the answer is no, well, then it's a good bet Apple is trying to sway public opinion and put an end to Flash's reign on the Web for business reasons. Apple has much to gain with Adobe out of the mobile Web picture: Flash is a popular app development tool that lets developers expose their work across platforms. Apple doesn't want the competition. That's why Apple recently tweaked its developer agreement to forbid developers from using third-party software tools, essentially banning Flash from the iPhone platform. Jobs, in a rare and lengthy blog post, claims Flash is poorly written software that will drain battery life and drag down the mobile Web experience. There are better and more open ways of rendering video on the iPhone, he says, such as the emerging HTML 5 standard. It's because of poor, proprietary technology that Apple has banned Flash on its iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. In a Wall Street Journal video, Narayen fir...
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Another take on the Adobe vs Apple
Apple-Adobe Feud: Is Flash as Bad as Jobs Says?
By Tom Kaneshige CIO - At the heart of the great war of words between Apple CEO Steve Jobs and Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen lies a simple question: Is Adobe Flash really bad technology? If the answer is yes, then Apple is right to ban it from the iPhone platform. If the answer is no, well, then it's a good bet Apple is trying to sway public opinion and put an end to Flash's reign on the Web for business reasons. Apple has much to gain with Adobe out of the mobile Web picture: Flash is a popular app development tool that lets developers expose their work across platforms. Apple doesn't want the competition. That's why Apple recently tweaked its developer agreement to forbid developers from using third-party software tools, essentially banning Flash from the iPhone platform. Jobs, in a rare and lengthy blog post, claims Flash is poorly written software that will drain battery life and drag down the mobile Web experience. There are better and more open ways of rendering video on the iPhone, he says, such as the emerging HTML 5 standard. It's because of poor, proprietary technology that Apple has banned Flash on its iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. In a Wall Street Journal video, Narayen fir...
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Monday, July 05, 2010
