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Concerning Flash and HTML5

June 23rd, 2009 7 Comments

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.

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The Open Product

May 6th, 2009 1 Comment

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.

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Microformats in 2009

January 26th, 2009 5 Comments

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.

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The OpenID and OAuth Flow: Playing with UX

January 8th, 2009 10 Comments

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.

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A crash course in avian inflammability

December 21st, 2008

I’ve written an article for the awesome 24ways; Geotag everywhere with Fire Eagle.

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