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Goodbye Flash, Hello Edge!

 

It is no secret that the iPhone does not support Flash.  Steve Jobs went as far as to explicitly rule out support of Flash by name, in his famous 2011 speech.  And now, Adobe has responded by announcing they will no longer support or further develop the Flash platform. Instead, Adobe is quietly releasing a [...]

Claiming Your Online Identity

 

Defining and managing your identity online can be time consuming but considering how many of our social and professional relationships begin with a Google query, it probably makes sense for all of us to invest a little time pulling it all together and presenting the image to the World that we want displayed, rather than [...]

The Future Is the Semantic Web

 

I have a dream for the Web [in which computers] become capable of analyzing all the data on the Web – the content, links, and transactions between people and computers. A ‘Semantic Web’, which should make this possible, has yet to emerge, but when it does, the day-to-day mechanisms of trade, bureaucracy and our daily [...]

100% Javascript Web App Architecture

 

Imagine creating a Rich Internet Application (RIA) built entirely using JavaScript, from client to server.  What would it look like? I’ve already discussed the benefits of HTML5 and the coming Web 3.0 movement in recent posts so I will not into those details now.  Instead, I want to focus on what an application like that [...]

Web 3.0 Has Already Begun!

 

Web 3.0 has begun and its not what you think.  I don’t think many people realized what Web 2.0 was until we were at the height of it, and already seeing the capabilities that had been set out years before it. But imagine if we had all realized in 2001 what was possible and all [...]

HTML5 Is Kind of a Big Deal

 

Have you looked at the new features that are part of HTML5?  I must admit that it took me some time to actually look at it because I dismissed it as just some new markup to have to deal with.  In that way, its really not correct for this to be labeled as HTML at [...]