Rumours have it that the iPhone SDK due to be launched today will not support Flash. Steve Jobs is being quite rude about Flash. But perhaps this is all part of some complex 3 way face-off between Adobe with its well entrenched position on PDF, Acrobat and Flash; Microsoft with its new and promising Silverlight; and Apple which has its own good reasons for not being beholden to anyone for a plug-in.
Who knows? Well it matters to … Keep Reading
Microsoft has a very nice implementation for its Book Search.
See here for some examples ‘C Elegans and Mutations’, or ‘Girard and Scapegoats’, and ‘Quine and “semantic ascent”‘
When you mouse over the individual titles in the search results the second panel shows information specific to the title: including a rule which shows the distribution of the search results within the title (the rule is imperial rather than metric, or maybe its binary: it has 32 segments). That … Keep Reading
I love the quotation attributed to Zhou en Lai — on being asked what he thought of the French Revolution, he replied “Its too early to say”. I love it because its so cautious, so careful and so definitively correct, but also engaged (“Mr Zhou: You mean the French Revolution is still happening?”). Its always going to be too early to say.
I feel like reaching the same conclusion about the extent to which publishing is now about building communities, … Keep Reading
Opera, the browser, continues to impress. As does Google Docs. But there are one or two issues to think about before you chuck out Firefox and ceremonially burn your .doc documents.
First off, Google Docs does not support Opera. On the Google Docs systems requirements page they say “Google Docs is not supported, and probably won’t run on (Opera).” Well it sort of runs on Opera on my Mac but only in a ‘view’ mode. I guess this … Keep Reading
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