Day: May 5, 2010

Unbundling channels to programs or apps. http://bit.ly/9mLUxV Inveitable consequnce of unbundling trend of the Internet. Louderbeck is always a good read. The internet is all about unbundling. Newspapers and magazines have been unbundled – why pay for the whole thing, when you can just read the articles you want online for free? Music has been…

Songwriters Guild Claims The Internet Makes It Impossible To Create Content http://bit.ly/b3fBlq From the too-stupid-to-breath department! Seriously. Quoting discredited reports – discredited by none other than the US Govt. General Accounting Office – and flying in the face of a booming music industry, fueled by the ability to build audiences over the Internet, these guys…

New addition to the HTML5 Spec – Captions http://bit.ly/cUlAvt And a “new track’ element as well. subtitles: Translation of the dialogue, suitable for when the sound is available but not understood (e.g. because the user does not understand the language of the media resource’s soundtrack). captions: Transcription of the dialogue, suitable for when the soundtrack…

FCC to Overhaul Regulation of Internet Lines to protect Net Neutrality. http://bit.ly/cF3s0V (Sorry the WSJ doesn’t have open access. One workaround is to copy the headline into the Google News search and link from there.) Net Neutrality – the principle that all packets on an ISP’s network will be treated the same, no matter where…

Scribd goes HTML5 for online document and presentation delivery. http://tcrn.ch/aJBWqG Adobe’s much-beleaguered Flash is about to take another hit and online documents are finally going to join the Web on a more equal footing. Today, most documents (PDFs, Word docs, Powerpoint slides) can mostly be viewed only as boxed off curiosities in a Flash player,…