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Cloud Computing Expo: ARM to Get Flash

News - 8 hours ago

Adobe and ARM are gonna put Flash Player 10 and AIR, the stuff of web video and rich Internet apps, on ARM widgets by the second half of next year. They mean phones, set-tops, MIDs, TVs, car mojo and personal media devices, which have so far only had access to Flash Lite, not the best in browsing. read more

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Canvas in 3D

Blogs - 14 hours ago

Peter Nederlof of the infamous Dutch “Lost Boys” created a 3D engine in Canvas.

Straight from the horse’s mouth:
I’ve been working on a 3D engine on canvas for some time, and as I was posting a message on our blog, I figured you guys might be interrested as w read more

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Big Week This Week for Cloud Computing - Starting Today

News - 14 hours ago

SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Expo will take place in San Jose. Seems like everyone is coming in to the Bay Area for this one, so I am looking forward to meeting a lot of the folks active in cloud computing at this event. There is also talk of another Cloud Computing Interoperability Forum get together read more

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Cloud Computing Journal: Amazon Launches CloudFront

News - 14 hours ago

Amazon has launched an HTTP content delivery service (CDN) called CloudFront that works with its S3 cloud storage widgetry and EC2. It's now a public beta, having been privately tested the last couple few months. It's the stuff Amazon promised in September and may someday give the likes of Akamai a read more

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The Soul of the Web - Why AJAX Standards Matter

News - 14 hours ago

I spoke on a panel at Mashup Camp this week on why Ajax Standards matter. I was quoted by Doug Henschen of Intelligent Enterprise as saying that we are locked in a struggle for the soul of the web, so I thought I would expand on that theme. Just because the web has been open so far doesn't mean tha read more

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When generated JavaScript goes wild; JavaScript WTF in SharePoint

Blogs - 20 hours ago

The JavaScript below was pointed out by Aaron Newton, and it comes from SharePoint. Jim Wilson said about it: "and we wonder why windows has 40 million lines of code."
PLAIN TEXT
JAVASCRIPT:




 


function DeferCall() {

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How Flash Can Join The Open Web

Blogs - 20 hours ago

As it is Adobe MAX this week, there is a lot of talk about the Flash platform. How does this relate to the Open Web? Well, it turns out that Dion and I have been discussing how Flash can join and become a part of the Open Web.
Dion kicks things off with his blog post [...] read more

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The Ajax side of AIR

Blogs - 20 hours ago

AIR 1.5 has been released at MAX this week.
For the folks that like to write AIR apps that at least have some JavaScript, you will be happy to see that WebKit has been updated:

The version of WebKit included in AIR has been updated to a newer version. The updated version includes Sq read more

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EtherPad: Collab your script

Blogs - 20 hours ago

Aaron Iba of AppJet has announced EtherPad a very cool product that is near and dear to Ben and I as we play with dev tools on the Web. I will let Aaron talk about it in his words:

It’s a realtime collaborative text editor that runs in a web browser
(IE6+, FF1.5+, Safari 3+). read more

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Live Blogging the Yahoo BrowserPlus Release Party

Blogs - 1 day 8 hours ago

Austin Chau and I are here on the Yahoo campus for the Yahoo BrowserPlus release party. I'm going to blog the event as it happens here (Disclosure: I work for Google with the Open Web Advocacy and Gears teams).
First, Ernest Delgado, Canvas whiz here at Yahoo, sent me a cool demo showing a pro read more

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