links for 2007-04-15
Posted in Daily Reads by del.icio.us Sunday, April 15th at 1:22 pm
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.
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.
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.
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
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).
Ask.com has confirmed that they have a new algorithm in the works, combining Direct Hits and Teoma to create Edison.
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.
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.
Google’s Matt Cutts raised quite some controversy in his blog by telling people how to report paid links.
