A while back, I wrote a small article about why I felt Silverlight should fail. The writeup generated a lot of good conversation and a bit of ire from Silverlight supporters (such as this example) so I thought it would be beneficial to write a followup. Let me try to make this clear, I am not a Flash fanboy. While I use Flash to pay the bills, I have written about my concerns with Flash. It is my belief that use of Flash on the web (and other RIA technologies) will continue to dwindle as open-source solutions that provide similar solutions take their place. Even if Silverlight usurps Flash (something I greatly doubt), there may not be much of a kingdom to reign upon once they do. I think Adobe sees this shift, I am unsure if Microsoft does.
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Why I (Still) Think Silverlight Should Fail
May 14th, 2008This Week’s Weekly Links of the Week - Week 75
February 10th, 2008
I barely made this week’s links by the skin of my teeth. This upcoming week may see a shortage of posts since my wife and I getting the hell out of dodge for a while. All that being said, I should have some really good content coming up in the next couple weeks.
Enjoy the links.
(more…)al gore, alternative energy, anonymous, apple, applications, art, Banksy, barack obama, blog, blogging, browser, bureaucracy, chicken doves, civilization, congress, corporate buyout, creative, cult, current tv, democrats, design, economy, energy, fancyzoom, file system, flickr, fluxxlab, free, gaming, gardening, george bush, good, graffiti, grocery lists, guerilla, iraq, Israel, Japan, javascript, js, kwaku alston, leap, links, london, mac os x, marketplace, microsoft, mitt romney, nano technology, organizer, out of touch, panorama, Photography, photonic, pillows, pixish, politics, poor, poverty, presidential primaries, publishers, revolving door, safari, scientology, sid meier, smell, solar power, space, streetlights, today show, tokyo, UN, un officer, useful, video editing, videospin, vintage tags, visual artists, war, war crimes, weekly, who let the dogs out, wind turbine, windspire, wordpress, yahoo yippee
This Week’s Weekly Links of the Week - Week 57
June 30th, 2007 The week is definitely heavy on the politics/current events and low on the tech/design. I try to even the areas out, but this feature tends to have a life of its own. Funny enough, there were no iPhone links this week - I have no doubt they will be scattered in great quantity throughout next week’s collection.
Enjoy the links.
(more…)aethism, AIDS, ann coulter, barak obama, blogging, blogs, bomb, cable news, cans only, censorship, christianity, cnn, corruption, cure, current events, daily show, delicious, design web, dick, dick cheney, discrimination, dpd, explosion, faith, focus cloud, Fox News, free speech, GOP, hate, health, hillary clinton, hiv, hypocracy, ia, information architecture, irony, john edwards, jon stewart, jpeg enhancer, jpg, last ripper, links, matchstick, media, medicine, michael moore, microsoft, mp3 ripping, msnbc, nancy grace, neocons, new kids on the block, news, newscaster, nyse, payola, phd, Photography, pirated software, police, politics, poor, religion, rich, secrets, sicko, sony, stop, tagging, tags, taxes, threespeech, ux, video, warren buffet weekly
Why Silverlight Should Fail
June 25th, 2007
Silverlight has been quite the buzz around the internet lately. Microsoft’s new product explicitly takes aim at Flash as they try to take on the rich media arena. Up to this point, Flash has basically stood alone at the top as the rich media standard for the browser. I will explain why, from my point of view, I do not see Silverlight changing that reality any time in the near (or far) future.
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This Week’s Weekly Links of the Week - Week 55
June 15th, 2007 This is by far the latest post for the weekly links I have had to date. You can blame 36clicks for that.
Sorry about this, I am going to get this all back in line.
Enjoy the links.
(more…)abu ghraib, actionscript, activism, advertisement, api, att, bike activists, blame, bush administration, caffine, cold splash, congress, constitution, constitutional rights, current events, cyclons, debugging, democrats, design, design web, drugs, dual boot, flash, Fox News, free ipod software, google, google gears, GOP, guerrilla, ipod, jesus, liberals, lies, links, Mac, michelle malkin, microsoft, national security, neocon, nothing something, oil industry, parody, Photography, politics, presidential elections, profit, right wing, robot chicken, sand dream, scientists, sound spectrum, star wars, telecoms, television, toolbar, torture, tsa, tv, tv online, video, war on terror, weekly, white house, Windows, wingnuts, yahoo, yahoo toolbar, youtube youtubesearch
