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16 February 2008
Is Europeana Too Flash?
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I've written before about the nascent European Digital Library : Consistent with the i2010 digital library initiative, this thematic n...
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31 December 2007
Open Source Unoriginal? - How Unoriginal
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Here's a tired old meme that I've dealt with before, but, zombie-like, it keeps on coming back : The open-source software community ...
11 December 2007
What Richard Stallman Wants for Christmas
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Bruce Byfield has an interesting write-up of the FSF's High Priority Free Software Projects . Projects make this list "because the...
26 November 2007
Why Javascript, not Flash? - Ask Zoho
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I've only just come across this, perhaps the best summary of why using Flash is the wrong way to create Web apps: 1. Native to the Web ...
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16 October 2007
BBC iPlayer: Converted in a Flash
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Well, here's an interesting confluence of two of my pet hates: By adopting Adobe Flash Player software, the BBC will make its free catc...
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13 May 2007
A Flash of Recognition
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Now, where have I heard this before? I assert that there is something wrong with web-like "rich" formats that aren't hyperlin...
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11 May 2007
Taking the DMCA Biscuit
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This is almost Jesuitical in its contorted logic : Media Rights Technologies and BlueBeat.com have issued cease and desist letters to both c...
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30 April 2007
Google Supports ODF
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Well, it already does with its online office suite, but now it lets you search for ODF files and displays converted online: In addition to ...
26 April 2007
Adobe Flexes Its Open Source Muscles
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As regular readers may have noticed, I'm not a big fan of Flash. But news that Adobe is open-sourcing Flex, its development framework...
17 April 2007
Flash: Now With Improved Evilness
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I've always said that Flash was turning the Internet into television, and now here's the final proof I was right: But the big selle...
16 April 2007
Microsoft Sees the (Silver)Light
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I suppose I ought to approve of Microsoft's new Silverlight : Microsoft Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for deliv...
19 March 2007
Which Future for Adobe's Apollo?
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I have mixed feelings about Adobe's new Apollo : Apollo is a cross-OS runtime that allows developers to leverage their existing web deve...
23 January 2007
MMORPG in a Box
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Raph Koster points out that setting up a MMORPG is pretty cheap these days: even the top-end SmartFox system , which is Java-based, costs j...
17 January 2007
Gene Geni
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This is quite clever - although it's a pity it uses Flash. You start to build your family tree on-screen, adding emails to the names w...
21 December 2006
Wengo's Wideo Widget
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Wengo, the people behind OpenWengo , an open source VOIP project, are offering a free video widget (to the first 10,000 applicants, at lea...
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Heading Towards 3D
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Once this kind of thing becomes commonplace, there's no stopping the 3D wave. (Via TechCrunch .)
Open Sourcing Second Life
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Here's a subject close to my heart: opening up Second Life. And this is what the alpha geek behind it, Cory Ondrejka, had to say on t...
27 November 2006
Eyeing Up EyeOS
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A year ago, I would have dismissed the idea of a Web-based desktop as pretty pointless. Today, spending as I do around 99% of my time withi...
09 November 2006
Thinking about Thinkature
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I like Thinkature for four reasons. First, it's about real-time, online, visual collaboration . Second, it doesn't use Flash (unlik...
26 October 2006
(Partial) Digital Freedom
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Although this Digital Freedom Campaign is highly partial - in both sense of the word - in that it's totally US-centric as far as I can ...
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