Friday, 16. March 2007, 05:34:56
tech, opera
I was just reading an interesting item at the TE site and a headline caught my eye,
Will web developers start to develop for Safari first?Given that
Opera Mini/Mobile is available for various devices already, I don't think that Safari will suddenly have developer support where there was none when
iPhone debuts. My guess is that, going forward, ACID2-compliance will be key in terms of browser development (and
better developer tools, of course).
Tuesday, 13. March 2007, 06:09:04
music, tech
Are you able to think back to the pre-iPod days? Do you even remember what it was like to take out CDs from their plastic sleeves and put them into your CD player to listen to music?? I thought not.
Well, this is a
great story how MP3 was invented and evolved over time by Karlheinz Brandenburg at Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology in Ilmenau, Germany.
Sunday, 4. March 2007, 08:25:10
tech
Speaking of standards, Håkon Wium Lie, Opera's CTO,
has written a great piece at CNET about Microsoft's effect on web standards compliance relating to Open XML (new file formats for the just-released
Office 2007,
Mac Office 2008 update coming in Q3) and their transparent protestations to IBM's ODF (Open Document Format)...(
comparison).
"Choice" is a prominent word in the letter. The authors argue that consumers want several standards from which to choose. I don't think so. Consumers never wanted the choice between VHS and Beta,...
Sunday, 4. March 2007, 01:34:09
tech, opera
Interesting item by Daniel at Opera Watch about an interview with everyone's favorite CTO, Håkon, about the OLPC project ($100 Linux-based laptop with Opera for developing countries and their yearning, smarty-pants kids).
...But another item in the interview caught my attention.
Anne at Opera seems to working on and proposing a
new video element object in HTML5 which would greatly simplify embedding video in web pages (without plug-in issues -- i.e., Flash, Quicktime, WMP, Real...!). WOW, great idea to evolve web standards as online video takes off! (As the product managers for each of the previously-mentioned plug-ins has smoke coming out of their ears.)
Give'em
hell, Anne!
Monday, 19. February 2007, 05:44:15
tech, video
Some interesting things taking place relative to online video and "TV" as I'm sure you know; especially with online video making on-demand viewing almost ubiquitous (outside of your
Tivo or
ReplayTV or
Moxi).
Joost just started to seed their P2P-based TV platform with clients for Windows and Mac. Video sites like
Youtube and
Google Video and
Dailymotion are booming. Finding online video of whatever interests you is getting easy and shockingly long-tailed. I mean, you can find a clip of the not-so-silent Charlie Chaplin in his amazing 1940 film gem, The Great Dictator or a 1968 Canadian interview of the great media theorist, Marshall McLuhan or Larry Page,
Google's co-founder speaking at AAAS or a human slingshot.
Cringely is making some interesting comments on how he thinks the new
Apple TV hub is being positioned.
Friday, 16. February 2007, 17:57:16
json, chaidb, tech
We're working on a new project called,
ChaiDB (and
JSON-Cache).
Read more...
Friday, 16. February 2007, 17:20:35
opera, tech, browsers
Johan over at the Opera Desktop Team blog just posted an
Apple-like teaser about v9.2 (aka Merlin) being released with
a feature never before seen in a desktop browser. Given Opera's history of innovation, I'm sure Mozilla, Webkit (Safari's engine) and the IE7 teams just stopped breathing.
(It also appears that the Opera Desktop Team are Rolls-Royce aficionadoes.)
Friday, 16. February 2007, 06:42:15
tech, opera, browsers
Wow,
Jon von Tetzchner, Opera's esteemed CEO and co-founder, says that Opera Mobile™ will be
BUNDLED with Windows Mobile 6 on various mobile phones. Looks like Safari/
iPhone isn't (ergo "won't be") the only fully-functional mobile browser capability, eh?
(
Infoworld)
Of course, you can still download Opera Mobile™ now, if you can't wait.
Thursday, 15. February 2007, 02:34:52
tech, funny
You may find it interesting to see how non-english junk mail seems to inundate our In-Queue these days. haha. Definitely lots of wasted time...
Saturday, 10. February 2007, 21:37:07
funny, tech
Hilarious "cows metaphor" piece by Mark @ Bloomberg.
hahahaha. (Though I take slight exception to his "iPod halo" remark implying that's the only reason Mac sales are booming.)
Microsoft Corp.
You have one old, tired cow. A recent heart transplant may have come too late to save the beast.
Google Inc.
You have no cows. You slap advertisements on everyone else's cows. The milk floods in. You use the proceeds to reinvent the cow.
Apple Inc.
Nobody wants your cows. You design the cutest little milk bottle. Now, everybody wants your cows.
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