TechCrunch got Indonesian Entrepenuers, Finally
What the Hell Is Going on in Indonesia?From Silicon Valley to New York, from India to South Africa one question keeps popping up in the mind of Web and mobile Web entrepreneurs: What the hell is going on in Indonesia?
One surprised thing is, it's actually @rampok who hunted down @sarahcuda when she was in town last week for a few days. (Thanks @aulia for the tip).
This is a nice thing. A good start everyone. Wake up. Wake up.
Read more: http://techcrunch.com/2010/05/27/what-the-hell-is-going-on-in-indonesia/.
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Fun Photoshop Crash Reports
Garrett Murray’s Photoshop CS4 crash reports, and so many of them! This is just one example:
Hilarious!
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You'd be Happier Without your TV
A quote by Martin Seligman, from his book Authentic Happiness.
In the nightly choice between reading a good book and watching a sitcom on television, we often [make the wrong choice] – although surveys show again and again that the average mood while watching sitcoms on television is mild depression.
As to me, we’ve TV at home. Just one with satellite subscription. I watch it about 3-5 hours per week (for 24, Heroes and CSI or some BBC Knowledge features). I hope I could reduce it but can’t resist when those series are coming. Wish I am would be happier :)
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This is awesome
Mark Pillgrim’s Dive into HTML5:
THE ALL-IN-ONE
ALMOST-ALPHABETICAL
NO-BULLSHIT GUIDE TO
DETECTING EVERYTHING
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HTML5 & CSS3 READINESS Browser Readiness
Created, of course, using HTML5.
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Scribd in HTML5
Cool!
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Patent Disaster
This piece in Dan Benjamin blog, LOST in Apple patent figured out how patent in software is REALLY suck, evenmore some patent for non-measureable idea and vision. Ugh, disaster!
I love Apple’s product but their new patent move is really crazy!
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Dieter's Rams 10 Design Principles
- Good design is innovative
- Good design makes a product useful
- Good design is aesthetic
- Good design helps us to understand a product
- Good design is unobtrusive
- Good design is honest
- Good design is durable
- Good design is consequent to the last detail
- Good design is concerned with the environment
- Good design is as little design as possible
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The Fate of Flash
The fate of Flash is in the making. Here are my compilation from the best sources:
Flash’s Decline on Lifehacker, From 2006 to 2010:
Because its readership represents a mixed group of both Mac and Windows users — albeit more tech-savvy ones than your average internet surfer — I ran the numbers for Lifehacker, which currently gets about 39 million visitors a month. As you can see in the chart above, the number of Lifehacker visitors without Flash installed nearly tripled from 2.32% in 2006, to 6.07% in 2009.
Famous blogger Robet Scoble also gets it right:
Let’s go back a few years to when Firefox was just coming on the scene. Remember that? I remember that it didn’t work with a ton of websites. Things like banks, e-commerce sites, and others. Why not? Because those sites were coded specifically for the dominant Internet Explorer back then.Some people thought Firefox was going to fail because of these broken links. Just like Adobe is trying to say that Apple’s iPad is going to fail because of its own set of broken links.
But just a few years later and have you seen a site that doesn’t work on Firefox? I haven’t.
What happened? Firefox FORCED developers to get on board with the standards-based web.
The same thing is happening now, based on my talks with developers: they are not including Flash in their future web plans any longer.
And Zeldman put it right:
Flash won’t die tomorrow, but plug-in technology is on its way out.
Dave Winer suggests:
Adobe might want to consider, right now, very quickly, giving Flash to the public domain. Disclaim all patents, open source all code, etc etc. That would throw the ball squarely back into Apple’s court and would frame the question right now in its most stark terms.
Who Can Do Something About Those Blue Boxes? John Gruber brilliantly summarized it all:
1. Adobe can’t. They can’t put Flash Player on iPhone OS on their own.2. Apple could, but they won’t.
3. Users could make Apple change its mind by refusing to buy iPhones, iPod Touches, and iPads because they don’t support Flash. That does not seem to be happening. In fact, iPhone sales are accelerating.
4. Web site producers could do it, by replacing or providing an alternative to the Flash content on their sites.
The most famous website that promotes Flash, YouTube, has already tried to introduces HTML5 video, but no full screen support. However, Jilion, recently introduced a new HTML5 video player (yeah without Flash) that support full screen with beautiful control.
So what’s your fate, Flash?
Note: many credit from John Gruber blog.
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Tim Cook on Apple's Business
“We believe in the simple, not the complex. We believe that we need to own and control the primary technologies behind the products we make, and participate only in markets where we can make a significant contribution.”
I believe in his word. Amen.
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