i'm torn. i have to admit that my affection for the open web is warring with my pragmatism.

"Let's be clear: It's fine to say that Flash is flawed; it is. (You know who'd agree? The Flash team.) It's fine to hope for alternatives to take root. (Competition makes everyone better.) But let's also be honest and say that Flash is the reason we all have fast, reliable, ubiquitous online video today. It's the reason that YouTube took off & video consumption exploded four years ago. It's the reason we have Hulu, Vimeo, and all the rest--and the reason that people now watch billions of videos per day (and nearly 10 hours apiece per month) online. Without it, we'd all still be bumbling along." - love or hate Flash, and i fall into neither bucket, it should be given its due. compete with it, criticize it for not being open/standards/etc enough, all fine.

a really interesting - and positive - look at Silverlight from the perspective of some Mac devs

this worked great for me

finally! 64 bit builds for Linux. YouTube and Hulu on the workstation! Solaris too, interestingly.

wherein Val destroys SSDs in general. i'm still glad i have one, but this is clearly worth a read for prospective SSD buyers.

i'll be using this shortly. it's a lot easier than it used to be.

well, hopefully it's not quite so zero sum.

all the more interesting in light of DeWitt's post on Silverlight

count me as interested, then

what is the deal with Silverlight and MLB?

and it's about time, too. i wish vendors were pushing harder to drive ssd's, thereby compressing the cost.

good news. i always thought Fedora's "it's easy to make a Fedora Flash boot disk easy...if you already have Fedora" was something of a flawed process

this may come in handy this week, though it appears that Blip.tv (our TV backend at the moment) will handle the OGG files that recordmydesktop generates

the GPS makes this compelling, but 4 hours of battery life just isn't enough to justify the cost

halfway though and it is indeed solid

hell, i'll give it a whirl

"Many others have said what I have just concluded: the desktop is changing." - irrespective of what you think of his conclusions re: Desktop, the point is well taken. GNOME, IMO, would benefit from an embrace of online applications

Matt on solid state drives - gotta get me one of those (and who wants to bet that Apple will be one of the first out of the gate with them?)

"Lacking a viable open source-based competitor today for rich media delivery on the web and given the current state of both Flash and Silverlight, it is in open source's best interest to ensure that Flash gets ahead of the competition."

$199 SSD laptops? seriously? what's the catch? i don't like Asus gear, but i'd consider this strongly

note to self: talk to Miguel about this

pushback to Ajax - and some harsh words for Flash

excellent piece from Miguel on potential web platforms

great news; hope this comes through apt shortly

this apparently is the player underlying YouTube

the Adobe folks have been busy, haven't they?

Flash 9 Beta for Linux is out - snag it

"A few years ago, before the Ajax revolution, it was to me pretty clear that Flash based frameworks and Avalon would pose a real threat to the web as we know it." - given my inability to see Flash 8 content, and the refusal to standardize Avalon, i'm incl

"And now Adobe Systems wants to replicate its success in video space in the Voice over the Internet (VoIP) arena, making it easy to embed voice into web applications." - interesting

absolute comedy, and it works on LinuxFlash

Amazon's online video services arrives...and it's only for Flash 8; this is a perfect example of why the Adobe situation is frustrating to many of us

gotta love the Adobe guys using Gentoo as the build server

wherein Stacy amplifies the demand for an updated Flash on Linux

how in the hell did i miss this? not sure about the Flash underpinnings, but fascinating nonetheless (via Alex)

couldn't get this to work, Julien - but it seems cool in concept

lots of folks have linked to this. my take? interesting, but i'm more interested in doing away with the mouse entirely than just the clicks

great post from Alex on how Ajax can lead users astray; reminds me of Flash cautions

this will allow the addition of audio to vnc2swf screencasts

greasemonkeying flickr, aka flickr w/o the flash (via Ruby)

a detailed look at some issues with Laszlo (via Raible)

very cool 10x10 like flash news presentation site (via James)

very funny flash application (via Shankland)

nat on web based client potential

free, open-source Laszlo rich-client web applets

Laszlo makes its way into Eclipse (via Sutor)

Laszlo software CTO interview

very cool new==>art (via kraneland)