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Apple.com leading the way with html5 implementation | Geek Technica

"If you go to apple.com with a webkit powered browser (Safari/Chrome in Mac or Windows) and play some of the new videos promoting the new iMac and Magic Mouse, the videos are played using html 5 video tag. When you try to play the same video using IE or Firefox the QuickTime video player kicks. Even though the latest Firefox browser support html5 video tags, its implementation is limited to Ogg Theora, the video files on apple.com are MP4."

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Social Technology Profile Tool

A survey of data which shows how participation varies among different groups of consumers, globally.

Developed and researched by Forrester on what they call – Social Technographics – the tool can help identify the level of technological involvement by different groups of users across an identified 6 levels of participation: Creators, Critics, Collectors, Joiners, Spectators and Inactives. A brief explanation on the different types can be found here.

Monday’s Tune Special: Life on Mars?

Arcade Fire & David Bowie – Life On Mars? (Live at Fashion Rocks) Get Adobe Flash player

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Life on Mars? is one of David Bowie‘s best and most moving songs. Appeared for the first time on the album Hunky Dory from 1973, BBC Radio 2 later called “a cross between a Broadway musical and a Salvador Dalí painting”.  The attached version is a recorded performance of David Bowie together with Arcade Fire (featured last week) at Fashion Rocks on 8th September, 2005 in New York. Continue Reading →

Chaim Witz – You are a disgrace!

Gene Simmons in Family Guy“The record industry is dead. It’s six feet underground and unfortunately the fans have done this,” [Gene, aka Chaim] Simmons said, according to AOL News. “They’ve decided to download and file share. There is no record industry around so we’re going to wait until everybody settles down and becomes civilized. As soon as the record industry pops its head up we’ll record new material.”

Source: Gene Simmons blames fans, P2P for killing music industry [Ars Technica]

Gene, you belong to a dark past.

For your knowledge: Bad music killed the record industry. I’m afraid that Glam Rock was part of it.

… and it seems that Radiohead, Trent Reznor and Soul Williams are doing just fine.

Gene Simmons and Kiss in Family Guy, Episode 313Update:

“Oh man, I’ve lost all faith in man kind.”

Gene Simmons in Family Guy, Road to Europe, Season 3, Episode 20

Taming the Information Monster

It seems that the big 4 [Microsoft, Intel, Google, IBM] are suffering from an overload of internal internet usage.

People are not working — they are emailing, twittering, facebooking, and googling, while at work — and the big information conglomerates are in need to do something about it.

Now these companies that created the big information beast will find ways to sell their solutions to other companies. Smart asses.

Link: NY Times