Round up of this week’s conversations – week 9 2010
For people who don’t have the time or energy to read through 15 blogs, I summarize each week a number of online conversations that struck me somehow.
Youtube launched a new service: auto-caption for videos. It uses speech recognition to transcribe videos. A translation service translates the subtitles. Watch the video below and be amazed. Our kids will laugh at us for all the efforts we’ve put into learning foreign languages.
Apple is cleaning up the iPhone’s app store. After banning apps containing sexual content (bikinis are considered as sexual content by Apple), Apple has now removed a number of apps that scan WIFI networks. Apple is being criticized because they remove the apps without any notice to the developers.
Adobe’s Flash Player is under fire too. Apple doesn’t implement Adobe’s Flash player on the iPhone and the iPad. This has lead Virgin Airlines not to use Flash on its website.
For as long as I remember, Flash has been the most popular (and often only decent) way to get rich media and video in your browser. HTML5 is supposed to provide rich media features, but the standard isn’t finished yet and not all browsers support it fully. Internet Explorer 8 doesn’t support the rich media features. And since IE8 is still very popular, we’re not ditching Flash yet. But it seems IE9 will have strong support for HTML5.
I’m very curious about where this goes, but we recently compared Flash and HTML5 and the main problems for HTML5 are the lack of support by all popular browsers and performance. We’re not burying Flash yet.
Comedian Conan O’ Brian has started using twitter. He has only posted 12 tweets and has more than 500.000 followers already. Check his page for stuff like this:
This is only my 5th tweet and I’m already exhausted. My God, how does Ashton do it?
Videos
Links
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRS8MkLhQmM
http://techcrunch.com/2010/02/22/itunes-promotes-sports-illustrated-sexy-swimsuit-app/
http://mashable.com/2010/03/05/wi-fi-stumblers-app-store
http://techcrunch.com/2010/03/04/tonchidot-sekai/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/03/02/virgin_america_html_flash/
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