Archive for May, 2010
http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/21/google-tv-everything-you-ever-wanted-to-know/
I wonder what Yahoo TV widget team will do next? Will they come up with something similar or let Yahoo TV widget fade out? I think it will be latter unfortunately and that’s my final answer since Yahoo is transitioning into Media company from Technology company. Period.
This is old blog post by Peter Van Dijck, which he posted presentation materials regarding site performance and scalability, but it is still very good resource.
It’s a very good read.
As he pointed out in his blog post, I think for some reasons many people seem to believe in HTML5 video without knowing the fact that there is *no standard in the video codec* yet.
We all know that Apple is pursuing H.264 for video codec as a standard, but there is still possibility not all browser vendors agree to use one video codec in the next several years for whatever reasons. Also there will be always newer codec that replaces H.264 and what will happen to the unofficial video codec standard?
As for the video player itself, video tag provides limited feature set whileas Flash player can have rich feature sets. In order to add new features to the video player (video tag), browser has to be upgraded whileas Flash author can upgrade the feature sets more freely.
I just feel that web is still messy and will be as it was as developers worked to fix compatibility issues between IE and Netscape. Now it’s another form of incompatibility issue.
Heard the new about the new AOL site and visited with Safari Browser.
Here’s the one that looks bit unfinished on Safari.
I found this presentation quite informative.
Last time I checked the eligibility via ATT site, I was supposed to be eligible on 05/23/2010.
However, the date moved when I checked it today. WTH.
So I gotta wait until August 24th to buy fourth gen iPhone. ATT is playing with iPhone users to squeeze dime out of their pockets.
A player definition. Good read.
Last night I upgraded ubuntu server (hardy) to intrepid. Everything went except nginx failed to serve php pages. Basically all requests to my site got 502 BAD GATEWAY error. So I thought maybe i had to upgrade nginx to a newer version that might be compatible with intrepid.
But later I realized that I downloaded nginx source, compiled and installed it manually. So after getting nginx via aptitude was a big mistake.
So The University of California decided to drop gmail over security concerns. So did Yale University about a month ago. I personally do not trust google either. People seem to trust google just because they have some outstanding products (search, gmail, maps, etc) and advertise themselves as a “good” company?
