Day: April 1, 2010

AOL wants more “Content Object Creators” http://bit.ly/bnDXZ3 As if “Content Creators” wasn’t bad enough! More Demand Media style content!

“Unfortunately AOL makes the job sound like the person is essentially a content monkey, working on building “up to 40 content objects a day” by using “modules” and “programming supporting other high-value revenue sources.”

Apparently AOL think the Demand Media model of mass-produced content is the way to go. Except Demand expect video as well as rewritten articles.  What a horrible direction for our industry to be going. Even so, we must learn the lessons of efficiency of fade into irrelevance.

Apple “winning the war on Flash” http://bit.ly/9rUGfo More important to be on the iPad than use Flash – who’d have thought?

In discussions with a friend after the iPad announcement, I predicted that the appeal of having a site on the iPad (and the iPhone/iPod Touch before it) would over-rule the “no flash” browsing. Turns out I was right as most major flash-based sites have created iPad friendly versions using HTML 5.

Flash isn’t going to disappear for a while but Apple is using the popularity of it’s portable computing devices to make it less appealing. If you’re going to make a Flash-free HTML5 site anyway to reach those devices, why stick with the Flash site?