RIA podcast goodness
There are a couple of news bits on the podcast front that should make anyone interested in RIAs happy. One, Coté and I are getting back in the routine of doing RIA Weekly.
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AdSense for Games: Could RIAs be next?
Google today announced a public beta for AdSense for Games. What’s unique about it is that it’s primarily targeted at Flash games with partners like Mochi Media, Konami, Heavy Games and others.
Busy week for Microsoft: Silverlight and jQuery
I'm traveling so I wasn't able to chime in on the availability of a Silverlight release candidate. One of the most important thing for developers is that it sounds like this will be the last round of API tweaks so there will be no more updating your applications.
Get your Flash on during the presidential debates
In a big indication that we're only beginning the social revolution for politics and that RIAs will play a big part, CurrentTV is going to be doing live streaming and a real-time overlay of Tweets using Flash. The broadcast will be available on the CurrentTV Hack the Debate site as well as a number of regular TV broadcasts with Flash powering the Twitter visualizations.
Curl "Nitro" gets a beta 2 release
At Web 2.0 Expo last week Curl released beta 2 of the next version of the platform codenamed "Nitro".
Silverlight snippets from reMIX UK
Microsoft held reMIX UK last week in Brighton which as others have noted was an addendum to the MIX conference in Las Vegas which unfortunately came in the shadow of PDC where we should probably see a Silverlight 2 release as well as a bunch of other goodies from Microsoft. But there was some good/new Silverlight info that came out from the conference:There were some snippets of Silverlight news, or perhaps clarifications.
So wait, Firefox is a fax machine?
Over on Techdirt there is some conversation about Firefox's response to Google Chrome. Now I don't know what they can do.
Jibdee launches: a consumer-centric take on the webtop concept
At TechCrunch 50 yesterday a company called Jibidee rolled out a public beta of their service. I like what Jibidee is doing.
H.264 support coming for Silverlight
At the IAB conference in Europe, Microsoft announced that they would be supporting both the H.264 video codec and the AAC audio codec in a future version of Silverlight.
What went wrong with Joost's desktop client?
The news broke today that Joost, the company which in a lot of ways was on the forefront of rich media, is canning its signature desktop client in favor of a purely web based portal. As a big proponent of desktop applications in general, and especially these hybrid applications which provide desktop functionality, I'm disappointed.