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Why you've got to disclose
Newspapers have made much of corporate Twitter accounts such as Jetblue and ComcastCares. Today there's news that someone apparently squatted the ExxonMobilCorp name, and passed themselves off as a nameless corporate drone. That's novel: impersonatio
Posted: Aug. 2, 2008 12:22 PM
Flash Lite talks with J2ME
Flash Lite talks with J2ME: There were articles earlier today about Sony's Project Capuchin, but now Sony has info on their website. It seems like Sony phones will have an API so that a local Java engine can communicate with the local Flash Lite engi
Posted: Apr. 30, 2008 10:43 PM
Noteworthy injection
Noteworthy injection: User-generated content is great, but you can't trust it, and must vet it before republishing it. This weekend the Barack Obama website accepted a comment from a visitor but did not strip out angle-brackets and quotemarks. The re
Posted: Apr. 21, 2008 05:41 PM
AMP, geo-restrictions
AMP, geo-restrictions: Link goes to a machine-translation of a German PC-Welt article, about how some television shows (such as the CBS "CSI" property) can no longer be viewed in all regions via Adobe Media Player. The viewing policy is set by the co
Posted: Apr. 21, 2008 04:58 PM
Label debates
Label debates: I don't usually link to Sys-Con, or to Scott Barnes, but this collection of paragraphs asserting that "'RIA' is slowly fading in terms of its definition" is a piece of almost offensively obtuse obscurantism. Rich Internet Applications
Posted: Apr. 21, 2008 11:15 AM
Creative accessibility
Creative accessibility: "Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one." [A.J.Liebling] Twenty years ago desktop publishing reduced the cost to tens of thousands of dollars. A decade later web publishing helped more people publish and
Posted: Apr. 19, 2008 01:36 PM
Adobe to acquire Macromedia
Adobe to acquire Macromedia: Announcement went out three years ago today. Seems longer. Why, back then we didn't even have YouTube... things have changed a lot since then....
Posted: Apr. 18, 2008 06:12 PM
Bad Reporter, No AdSense
Bad Reporter, No AdSense: The link goes to a Google search on pages indexed within the past 24 hours on "'mark dowd' adobe"... currently gives 40 pages about yesterday's issue where blogs/newspapers highlighted an old Player vulnerability. Now try th
Posted: Apr. 17, 2008 05:23 PM
SEO reality
SEO reality: Neat points raised by Google's VP of search quality, Udi Manber: "I wish people would put more effort into thinking about how other people will find them and putting the right keywords onto their pages... The content provider should thin
Posted: Apr. 17, 2008 05:07 PM
Silverlight tripling
Silverlight tripling: I hate giving Microsoft public-relations people extra exposure, but I spent enough time researching it that I figure others may want to know the meat behind the story too. The headlines go "Silverlight to triple marketshare" and
Posted: Apr. 16, 2008 06:52 PM