Elliott Rothman
Technology
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Facebook is Watching You
Or rather, Facebook is enabling the world to watch your every click online. Last week, Facebook revealed what Mark Zuckerberg is calling "Frictionless Sharing". This is one of two new major features announced at the F8 developers conference. Frictionless Sharing allows apps and websites that you authorize, to publish information to a new, realtime feed window you may have noticed in the upper righthand corner of your newsfeed. Things like what song you're listening to in Spotify at the very moment you're listen...
Flash is Alive and Well
Flash has been a hot topic among the press and among developers in 2010, with Apple's refusal to support it in their iOS devices, and subsequently banning apps authored in it from being accepted in the iTunes store. It's a transitional time for the web, and with the ever growing market of mobile applications there has been a lot of talk about the future of Flash and it's role on the internet. The topic can be controversial and confusing- Flash is really two technologies, and it's important to distinguish the dif...
HTML5: What's All the Fuss About?
If 2008's buzz word was Web 2.0 and 2009's was Social Media, 2010's might be HTML5. So what is it? Why should anyone care? As the browser wars heat up, and more people get online via mobile devices, there's been an accelerated effort to modernize the web. HTML4 was finalized in 1999, and a lot has changed in eleven years. According to Internet World Stats, global internet usage is up 399.3% from 2000-2009, and 1,162.0% for Chinese speaking users, and 2,297.7% for Arabic speaking users. As more people get onli...
The Browser Wars Are Back On, And End Users Are The Winner
Yesterday, Apple released Safari 5.0, a really fantastic update to the popular Mac browser. A few key additions include: a reader mode for browsing article style content, much improved developer tools, and support for extensions. Googles Chrome browser is now out of beta for Windows, Linux and Mac, and uses the same render engine as Safari (webkit), which makes building cross browser compatible websites a lot easier. In general, websites look identical in Safari and Chrome, so the end users choice is more about ...
