I am hosting a two-day widget conference October 15-16 in San Francisco. Widget Summit is the sequel to last year's Widgets Live! conference, bringing together developers and product planners for a two-day perspective on the widget industry.
Yesterday Adobe announced support for H.264 and AAC decoding in the next version of its popular Flash Player plugin. The announcement will change the face of online video playback and production based on international standards. In this post I take a look at the major changes in Flash Player 9 "Moviestar" and how it may affect multimedia publishing on the Web.
This blog's comments are now enhanced with the YUI Rich Text Editor. I'm already familiar with the YUI JavaScript library, so when this new feature was included last week's 2.3 release I decided to try out a progressive commenting enhancement. In this post I'll walk you through how to implement YUI's Rich Text Editor on your own blog with comment-specific features.
Apple is syndicating iTunes purchase history and user reviews as Flash widgets and Atom feeds under a new program called My iTunes Widgets. Any iTunes Music Store customer can opt-in to sharing their subscribed podcasts, purchased music, music video, TV shows, movies, and positive reviews through an account preference set in the iTunes application.
In this post I'll compare performance and developer friendliness of JavaScript mapping APIs and dissect choices made by each platform that may affect your website.
Niall Kennedy is a web technologist in San Francisco, California in the United States. I am very interested in the world of... MORE »