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 February 5, 2010 Yeah that's pretty dramatic headline as we all know that Flash ain't in danger of going anywhere. But Robert Scoble has some interesting notions in his article about some developers with no intention of using flash in the future. Oh noez! Well apparently Google's here to "save" Flash. Speaking of redemption, a pretty dope movie I'd seen this week was The Book of Eli. It's set in a truly post-apocalyptic future that looks incredibly similar to Fallout 3. For a drama about the last Bible it's pretty action-intense and Denzel brings it. Gary Oldman is a master of his craft as always. Mila Kunis is growing as an actress and proves her self to be improving with age in talent and beauty. She's come along way from That 70's Show. Segueing into beauty, another site I've dropped in for you is the portfolio site for actress/model Jacqui Ainsley. She's the model and motion capture actress for the PS3 exclusive title, Heavy Rain, coming out this month. Mark Rivera For any site suggestions or general musings, gimme a shout at mark@flashnewz.com And don't forget to check out our Flash Directory |
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Can Google Save Flash?  By Robert Scoble UPDATE: for a good counterpoint to this blog, see my new post titled "Google +will+ save Flash." Let's go back a few years to when Firefox was just coming on the scene. Remember that? I remember that it didn't work with a ton of websites. Things like banks, ecommerce sites, and others. Why not? Because those sites were coded specifically for the dominant Internet Explorer back then. Some people thought Firefox was going to fail because of these broken links. Just like Adobe is trying to say that Apple's iPad is going to fail because of its own set of broken links. But just a few years later and have you seen a site that doesn't work on Firefox? I haven't. What happened? Firefox FORCED developers to get on board with the standards-based web. The same thing is happening now, based on my talks with developers: they are not including Flash in their future web plans any longer. This has Adobe freaked out. Big time. So, can Adobe save Flash? No. But Google can. The thing is, does Google want to? Google has been positioning itself as a company that supports the open web. It doesn't like opaque boxes that aren't friendly to the web. Google has been putting a lot of support behind HTML 5, for instance, and just a couple of weeks ago added support for HTML 5 to YouTube, which takes away a big chunk of Adobe's argument (I bet Hulu and other players will soon jump onto the HTML 5 bandwagon, or, at minimum, will support the iPad/iPhone video streaming technologies. Even Ustream.tv has an iPhone app now that works fine with streaming video). Google is widely seen as the only company right now that is challenging Apple at all (and even then, Google's Android is clearly #2 in the race and doesn't look like it will be able to challenge iPhone/iPad this year). After playing a bunch of great games on the iPhone, I don't agree with the claims that Flash is needed anymore. If Adobe is losing people like me and the developers that decide the future of the web, they are in big trouble. Continue reading article... About The AuthorRobert Scoble is the founder of the Scobleizer blog. He works as PodTech.net's Vice President of Media Development.Go to Scobleizer ... |
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