APIs Adobe: Flash is an Exception to Windows 8's 'Plug-in Free' Rule One of the unambiguous messages we heard from Microsoft's Build 2011 conference in Anaheim all last week was that development of HTML5 "Metro-style apps" for Windows 8 would be "plug-in free." All requests for Microsoft to "clarify" that rule only underscored the blunt reality of the statement: HTML5 is about the absence of plug-ins, and thus… Hack Scott M. Fulton View comments
Art NYC Posts Facebook Street Etiquette The artist Jay Shells is at again with a series of street signs that look almost real from the Metropolitan Etiquette Authority. The signs, which aren't officially sanctioned of course, ask you to watch where you are walking while Facebooking, pull your pants up, and other banes of urbanity. Shells bolts the signs to street poles around New York… Play David Strom View comments
Analysis 7 Ways to Get Started With Cloud Computing If you are a cloud virgin, what is the best way to get started and learn more about what the cloud can offer? Here are several suggestions, from the perspective of someone who has moderate IT knowledge and not necessarily the full backing and support resources of an IT department behind them. The idea here is to demonstrate some of the key… David Strom View comments
Trends Sencha Releases Touch 2 Framework Developer framework Sencha announced a major update to its platform last week that further enhances its HTML5 capabilities and provides easy wrappers to package Web applications into native form for Android and iOS. It is a bulky update to Sencha and is representative of how the tools of the mobile developer industry need to keep pace with… Mobile Dan Rowinski View comments
Internet TV Netflix Split Angers Customers (Again) It's only been a few weeks since Netflix rolled out a price hike that irked customers and forced the company to revise its projected total subscribers for the year. Realizing he could have better communicated the change to subscribers, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings took to the company blog last night to say he's sorry and offer some candid insight… John Paul Titlow View comments