Apr
15th
links for 2007-04-15
Posted in Daily Reads by del.icio.us at 1:22 pm
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Mozilla, Opera and Apple have joined hands to propose W3C to accept HTML 5 (via Ajaxian). Not very surprising since WHATWG, the group working on X/HTML 5, was composed of these three. Consequentially Microsoft’s does not appear anywhere near that.
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I’ve had an idea for this kind of a list for months now, but I guess I’ve been waiting until we have clear, agreed, and well-defined players rather than something we insiders consider successful but is really unknown to the rest of the world.
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Comcast has launched a test version of a video site called The Fan, built using Adobe’s Flex 2. The developers have also offered an insight into what it was like to work with Flex.
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Just as Viacom employee Jon Stewart appears to believe his bosses are making a mistake in taking Viacom content off of YouTube, it looks like NBC employee and Saturday Night Live creator and producer, Lorne Michaels can’t understand NBC’s position on YouT
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The White House “lost” roughly five million emails from 2003 to 2005, according to a report (.pdf) yesterday by watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW).
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Ask.com has confirmed that they have a new algorithm in the works, combining Direct Hits and Teoma to create Edison.
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It’s been over a month since USA Today launched their new social-network-influenced redesign. The initial response was extremely negative; within a few days there were hundreds of comments on the announcement story, and over 90% were negative.
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According to the good folks at AppleInsider, Steve & Co. plan to throw a few “top secret” features into Leopard, which may be the real cause for the operating system’s four-month delay.
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Google’s Matt Cutts raised quite some controversy in his blog by telling people how to report paid links.
