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Flickr Goes Big With Larger Images, Responsive Redesign

Flickr, the photo-sharing service that started them all, is teaching its competitors some new tricks with a redesign that takes a responsive approach to images, serving up bigger, better images across devices."

Tue, 15 May 2012 18:22:52 GMT | Tagged: Multimedia


Easily Upload Photos With Flickr’s New Drag-and-Drop Tools

The popular photo sharing service Flickr is harnessing the power of HTML5 to make it even easier to get your photos on the web. With Flickr's new HTML5 uploader photo sharing is just a drag-and-drop away."

Wed, 25 Apr 2012 18:12:33 GMT | Tagged: Multimedia


JavaScript Package Offers a Smarter Way to Serve Hi-Res Images

The rise of mobile devices means a return to limited bandwidth, but also gorgeous, high-res displays. Better screens connected to skinnier pipes makes serving images on the web more complicated, but fortunately Foresight.js offers a very clever solution."

Fri, 20 Apr 2012 17:19:42 GMT | Tagged: Multimedia


Microsoft Wants to Put Skype in Your Web Browser

Microsoft is looking for developers to help it build a "Skype for Browsers." Think Facebook video chats without the need for Facebook."

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 16:38:41 GMT | Tagged: Multimedia


Mozilla Builds Video Chat App Using Nothing but Web Standards

Mozilla is showing off a demo of what web-based video calls might look like. The entire app is built with HTML and JavaScript, no plugins or app stores necessary."

Mon, 09 Apr 2012 15:26:21 GMT | Tagged: Multimedia


Video: The Show With Ze Frank Returns to the Web

Humorist and video blogging pioneer Ze Frank is once again producing new episodes of The Show with Ze Frank."

Mon, 09 Apr 2012 18:14:30 GMT | Tagged: Multimedia


Flickr Ditches Flash Photo Editor for Mobile-Friendly Aviary

Flickr is replacing the Flash-based Picnik photo editor with an HTML-based alternative named Aviary. The change means Flickr users can now edit their photos on iOS devices and any upcoming Windows Metro tablets, neither of which run the Flash plugin."

Thu, 05 Apr 2012 16:45:54 GMT | Tagged: Multimedia


BrowserQuest Is Pure HTML5 Gaming Goodness

BrowserQuest is an addictive real-time multiplayer adventure game written entirely in open web standards like HTML5, CSS and JavaScript. Welcome to the next big gaming platform -- the open web."

Wed, 28 Mar 2012 16:05:48 GMT | Tagged: Multimedia


Idealism vs. Pragmatism: Mozilla Debates Supporting H.264 Video Playback

The HTML5 video element should have been a game-changer for web video, but a dispute over video codecs has prevented that from happening. However, Mozilla, a long time opponent of the patent-encumbered H.264 codec, has changed its mind and decided to supp"

Tue, 13 Mar 2012 14:23:42 GMT | Tagged: Multimedia


HTML Editor Calls HTML5 Video Copy-Protection Proposal ‘Unethical’

Google, Microsoft, and Netflix have teamed up to propose a copy protection protocol-- AKA DRM -- for HTML5 video. It's just a draft right now, but already the response from other W3C members has been overwhelmingly negative."

Thu, 23 Feb 2012 17:49:15 GMT | Tagged: Multimedia


Mozilla Demos MediaStream Processing, Audio Mixing in Firefox

Mozilla is drafting a proposal for a new web standard called MediaStream Processing that introduces JavaScript APIs for manipulating audio and video streams in real time. The specification is still at an early stage of development, but Mozilla has already"

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 14:08:29 GMT | Tagged: Multimedia


Damn the Torpedos: Mozilla Adds Flash to Firefox for Android

Adobe may be throwing in the towel, but Mozilla is going ahead with plans to add Flash support to Firefox for Mobile. The company says that despite battery drain and performance woes, fans of Firefox on Android want Flash."

Thu, 17 Nov 2011 16:03:30 GMT | Tagged: Multimedia


What the Death of Mobile Flash Means for the Web

Adobe has ceased development of the Flash plug-in for mobile devices like Android phones and tablets. In abandoning Flash for mobile, Adobe is finally admitting that Flash has no future on the open web."

Wed, 09 Nov 2011 17:55:03 GMT | Tagged: Multimedia


Mozilla Reinvents Web Video With Popcorn 1.0

Unlike the rest of the web, online video is passive, boring. Mozilla is hoping to change that with Popcorn.js, a toolkit to help filmmakers and web developers to add web content to online movies. Think live tweets, Wikipedia info, real-time weather, maps "

Thu, 10 Nov 2011 14:51:24 GMT | Tagged: Multimedia


Getting Started with Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG)

Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) have long been the ideal way to create images that need to scale without distorting. For example, SVG is a great format for an icon or logo that needs to be displayed at several sizes without pixelation or other distortion. "

Fri, 28 Oct 2011 15:03:59 GMT | Tagged: Multimedia


Developer Turns Geocities Archive Into a ‘Digital Pompeii’

For a brief time in the early ’90s Geocities was the web. And, for all its shortcomings, Geocities did nevertheless usher in much of what makes the web great — that anyone can create nearly anything. When Yahoo picked up Geocities for $3.5 bi"

Wed, 28 Sep 2011 16:20:54 GMT | Tagged: Multimedia


Adobe Hopes Impressive 3-D Graphics Can Save Flash 11

Adobe has announced Flash Player 11, which gives the company's beleaguered browser plugin some new 3-D graphics tricks. It's unlikely to change anyone's mind at Apple or Microsoft, but Adobe is hoping to lure game developers with the promise of "consol"

Wed, 21 Sep 2011 16:05:05 GMT | Tagged: Multimedia


Metro-style Internet Explorer 10 Ditches Flash, Plugins

Windows 8 will have two versions of Internet Explorer 10: a conventional browser that lives on the legacy desktop, and a new Metro-style, touch-friendly browser that lives in the Metro world. The second of these, the Metro browser, will not support any pl"

Fri, 16 Sep 2011 15:26:17 GMT | Tagged: Multimedia


Make Waves with WebGL Demo ‘Water’

Web Developer Evan Wallace has released one of the more impressive WebGL demos we’ve seen. Provided you’re using a capable browser (Firefox, Chrome or Safari), head on over to Wallace’s WebGL Water demo and be amazed. If you stay abreas"

Mon, 15 Aug 2011 15:52:27 GMT | Tagged: Multimedia


MPEG LA: 12 Companies Own Patents Essential to Google’s VP8 Codec

MPEG LA, the self-styled one stop shop for motion video patent licenses, says that 12 different companies have come forward with patents “essential” to the VP8 algorithm championed by Google as a royalty-free compression standard. The organiza"

Mon, 01 Aug 2011 14:50:54 GMT | Tagged: Multimedia


Review: Adobe’s Edge Offers Web Animation Sans Flash

While Edge is a long way from a finished product, this early release shows considerable promise. If you're a Flash developer looking to expand your repertoire to include HTML, CSS and JavaScript animations, Edge just might help."

Tue, 02 Aug 2011 15:20:57 GMT | Tagged: Multimedia


Google Taps Danger Mouse to Show Off the Power of WebGL

Google has launched a new web-based movie experiment designed to showcase the power of WebGL-based animation. Chris Milk, the director behind last year’s experiment, The Wilderness Downtown, which featured music by Arcade Fire, is back with a new in"

Mon, 16 May 2011 15:35:44 GMT | Tagged: Multimedia


Angry Birds Attacks Web … Web Wins

Angry Birds, currently one of the most popular games for iOS, Android and other platforms has made the leap to the web. Rovio, the company behind the game, has unveiled a web-based version of Angry Birds at Google’s I/O conference in San Francisco. "

Thu, 12 May 2011 15:19:24 GMT | Tagged: Multimedia


Google Pools WebM Video Supporters for Patent Protection

Google has announced the new WebM Community Cross License (CCL) initiative. The new group is designed to create a patent-safe haven around Google’s WebM video codec for HTML5 video. Members of the new CCL initiative agree to license any WebM-related"

Tue, 26 Apr 2011 14:13:53 GMT | Tagged: Multimedia


Google Video Adds YouTube Export Option

Good news Google Video users, Google has given the video sharing site a reprieve. Early this month Google announced it would shut down Google Video’s hosting services on April 29. Now Google has abandoned that deadline and is offering a new option t"

Mon, 25 Apr 2011 15:03:54 GMT | Tagged: Multimedia


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