What We’re Reading Today
Requiem for Silverlight – ReadWrite
VP8 Under Attack
We’ve been following the course of VP8 and WebM since its release last year. We’ve also been waiting for someone to ask us to encode to WebM. We encode a few thousand minutes of content every week, so we consider ourselves a bellwether of Codec/Format acceptance. So far, not one request for WebM. Now MPEG-LA, who represent the patent pool for H.264 (AVC) has gathered 12 organizations claiming patent infringement by WebM/VP8:
Small Audiences for Online Video Series
Just reading through a lovely article on Online Video Series. Seems that everyone’s excited about the potential, but nobody’s watching:
What are we reading now? HTML5 vs. Flash
The HTML5 War continues, though you don’t hear as much about it lately. For Web Developers, it really matters. They are being asked to choose sides: Flash vs. HTML5, Adobe vs. Apple, what works now vs. what may work in the future. This post from Periscopic gives some good detail and statistics on how they’ve made their choice (for now):
What Are We Reading Now?
Interesting take from James McQuivey of Forrester Research on Apple’s latest moves to shore up it’s Walled Garden approach:
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