An overview of this whole Flash vs. HTML5 brew-ha-ha, and how really the developments concerned are just pragmatic evolution of technology butting up against a couple of short-lived, but lucrative, media opportunities.

HTML 4 supported pictures. HTML 5 supports moving pictures. It’s progress.

Talking about how comparing OAuth et al to Facebook Connect is an entirely broken analogy and that the ball sits in the court of product makers like Yahoo! and Google to stand up to Facebook, not the OAuth and OpenID communities that just build the foundations of an open web.

My personal thoughts on the microformats community at the start of 2009, where we might go, where I’d like us to go, and the kinds of new developers I hope get offered to developers. I hope it inspires others to write up their own ambitions for the year.

Review of my listening habits over 2008, complete with a grand many Last.FM links to artists you should definitely listen to.

In which I analyse Facebook Connect’s UI, bash it a bit, and then steal the best bit and apply it to OpenID and OAuth applications. Pictures are provided.