an open internet
An important video from Jesse B. Dylan.
I took the above photo with my Sidekick 3, a phone that at the time I loved dearly. It was probably one of the best phones on the market until the iPhone came on the scene and still does things that the iPhone can’t do – in particular instant messaging. (I still miss [...]
Ahh, 2006. It seems like such a long time ago! Back then I was working at Red Hat on OLPC and Microsoft had just accused free software of being Unamerican and communist. It was a good time, honestly, to know that you were working on important things and that you were still [...]
There’s a press release / post up about a BoF that’s going to happen tomorrow, July 30th, at the IETF meeting in Stockholm, Sweden. The Xiph folks, along with some people from Skype, are proposing that the IETF form a working group around audio codecs in use on the Internet (with a capital ‘I’.) [...]
Today Dailymotion, one of the world’s largest video sites, announced support for open video. They’ve put out a press release, a blog post on the new openvideo site as well as a demo site where you can see some of the things that you can do with open video and Firefox 3.5. They are automatically [...]
On June 19th and 20th, there will be a conference in New York City on open video. If you’re interested in the problems around open video and want to talk with other people, many of whom are working on solutions, this will be the place to be. Ryanne Hodson and Jay Dedman of Ryanishungry.com recently [...]
The matter of copyright and access to content seems like a small thing in the mix of problems that the new President will face when he gets into office. Indeed, when compared to problems like climate change, a faltering world economy, a couple of wars and everything else that’s on all of our collective plates, [...]
John Lilly pointed people at a really good article in the New York Times by John Markoff about the Olympics as a hook to get Silverlight onto people’s computers. It’s a good overview and is worth reading.
The article covers well tread ground: People are worried that Microsoft will leverage its market power to create [...]
The ever wonderful John Resig finally posted his totally awesome processing.js code to the web. If you haven’t seen it, you should go take a look. The Wired Compiler blog said “…this might be the most impressive thing we’ve ever seen.” And I agree, but probably not for the same reasons that [...]