MC2 Post 638: At The Crossroads: Adobe, Flash and HTML5

The Secret Is Out 

Apple and Adobe 

Don't Like Each Other?

No, Not That One, This One:

adobe-acrobat-reader-silent-update

Link: http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1600424/adobe-acrobat-reader-silent-update

Of Course, Adobe is:

Not Just A Flash in the Pan

Link: http://techcrunch.com/2010/02/05/the-future-of-web-content-html5-flash-mobile-apps/

The Other Side of The Line

Ooyala and Microsoft Silverlight

Link:  http://www.marketwatch.com/story/ooyala-announces-online-video-solution-built-on-microsoft-silverlight-2010-04-08?reflink=MW_news_stmp

Adobe Flash evangelist: 

'Go screw yourself Apple'

Link: http://news.cnet.com/8301-27076_3-20002188-248.html

One Ring Shall Rule Them ALL ???

HTML5

HTML 5: Google, Microsoft, Apple, and Adobe 

Fight to Rule the Web

Link: http://industry.bnet.com/technology/10006554/html-5-google-microsoft-apple-and-adobe-fight-to-rule-the-web/

Just a Little MS Salt to the Open Wound

Microsoft launches iPad-happy website

for wimmin

Ladies Night, oh what a site

Link: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/04/07/microsoft_glo/

iPad Media Apps Stuck in the Past

Link: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/04/08/tech/main6376993.shtml

iPad Proves That Apple Wants to Kill Flash

Apple's campaign for iPad-ready sites is just the 

start of an effort to kill off internet apps 

like Flash and Silverlight.

Link: http://www.pcworld.com/article/193540/ipad_proves_that_apple_wants_to_kill_flash.html

Backgrounder (a liitle background), Up the Middle ...

What to expect from HTML5

Link:  http://www.infoworld.com/d/developer-world/what-expect-html5-611

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And The Beef Goes On ...

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ruby 

A Programmer's Best Friend

Link: http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/

and

 
Ruby on Rails

Heinemeier Hansson first released Rails as open source in July 2004

 Link: http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/RailsDispatchcom-Launched-as-Community-Resource-for-Rails-3-1143922.htm

Still Holding Mindshare.



Wingman, On the ruby ridge, Watching the Fray

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August 6 1997 On This Day Microsoft Saved Apple.

The Day Microsoft Saved Apple.
August 6 1997

Macworld Boston 1997


The Day Fan Boys

Booed Bill and Steve

said "No, no no.".

And the World has said:

"i ,i , i " every since.

iPod, iTunes, iPhone

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I guess Bill is $orry now.

Story Link at: http://www.wired.com/thisdayintech/2009/08/dayintech_0806/

But maybe Not, competition is

Good for Every One.

And Hindsight is Always

2020.

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From YouTube:
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MacWorld Boston 1997 -Full Version:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEHNrqPkefI&eurl=http%

3A%2F%2Fmediacircus2.blogspot.com%

2F&feature=player_embedded

From 113 characters to 25 with

TinyUrl: http://tinyurl.com/lsrn82

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It's Good to see the Whole Thing
As a Reminder of how Far Apple
Has Come
From the Brink...
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Crazy Things being shown at Siggraph in New Orleans:

Like a

"Touchable Hologram".

Link: http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/editors/23940/

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Wingman, Is Reading History and and Science Fiction like the books

Mark Twain by Ron Powers

and Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson

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The Good, The Better and the SCARY

Early in the year, Motley Fool said: Google was the Worst Stock to own in 2007.


What Fools!!!

In March, Google was selling for $440.00 a share, the lowest for the year, but still GOOD.

It's IPO, quite a few years ago, was around $80+ a share.

That might have been the report that Motley saw that precipitated that faulty advice.

However.....Just a few months later, the tide turned. And everyone was feeling peachy when it saw the good numbers for Apple and even Microsoft, last week.

Then the other Google Giant SHOE hit the Fan...

Today 10/31/2007, in after hours trading, Google hit 707.48 a share as of 6:48 PM ET.

During the day, most analysts were slack-jawed at the year-end closing performance of Google stock. But some hinted that it could cross the $900.00 mark before the end of the year.

How about that as being pretty Scary?

Old FUD's Ugly Head

Microsoft showed it's Ugly FUD Head again this week with an attempt to intimidate Open Source and Linux with allegations of Intelleectual Property Rights violation.

Now remember, I really hate the PC - Apple commercials that the Mac has been rubbing in our windows-faces lately.

Particularly since I remember, not that long ago, Microsoft helped Apple out with some loose change when the Mac seemed on the brink of extinction, again.

That Was nice of Microsoft.

This meaning, that I'm not an Mac or Windows Basher by preference. Only when then continue to "Do Stupid Things". But I guess, old bad habits die Very Hard.

For the uninitiated, the NEW tactics of FUD (Fear,Uncertainty and Doubt) is so interwoven into the fabric of Microsoft that I must refer you the Wikipedia entry on the subject.

This seems to be Microsoft's modus operandi of late, when they feel they're losing mind-share.

These Peckinpah-Matrix slow-motion ambush shots hide the the Facts that if you can't compete technologically (vista), sick the lawyers on them.

FUD can obscure a multitude of innovation shortcomings.

This is not what someone who wants to be remembered as a humanitarian should be doing.

Stop it Bill.

It's not Open Source or Linux's fault it took five (5) years to push Vista out the door.