If you want to know what technology will eventually become commonplace, you usually need to look no further than the porn industry. They were the first to start using camcorders instead of film cameras. They were the first to start using Flash video online (or online video for that matter). They were the first to [...]
A recent survey by the web security site Sophos found that 60% of Facebook users have considered leaving the service over privacy concerns. While that certainly doesn’t mean people will actually quit the site, it does illustrate a general, growing dissatisfaction user’s have over the amount of control they can wield on sites like Facebook. [...]
The old joke goes like this. Patient says “doctor my arm hurts when I do this”. Doctor says “then don’t do that”. It’s taken all of one day for a similar scenario to play out with the new iPhone 4. It seems a number of users are complaining of dropped calls (or at least a [...]
HTML5 has been six years in the making. After all that time, it’s still far from becoming a web standard…or even having it’s own standards. HTML5 video has recently drawn a lot of attention to HTML5 in general and Apple released an HTML5 showcase demonstrating the cool things that could be done with it. Problem [...]
An estimated 36 million Americans have some degree of hearing loss. In 1990 a law was passed requiring all televisions to support closed captioning and in 1996 another law was passed requiring most TV shows to offer closed captions. Now a bill is before Congress that would require any web video…that also appears on TV…to [...]
