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June 2010 - Posts

• A little more on VP8 and <video>

  A follow up on a followup - this time it's to add a link to the YouTube API blog about Flash and the HTML5 <video> tag . A couple of good points in there - and a few things you can take away from it. Yes, Flash provides a convenient way to lets Read More... Posted 30 June 2010 11:07 by Stuart.King | 0 Comments Filed under: video, vp8, google, html5

• Lumbered or unencumbered - Google and the VP8 video codec

  I touched on Google's purchase of On2 in my last post very briefly, but it's something that has the potential to enable some quite interesting change in the way web video is delivered - not least because of Google's open sourcing of the VP8 video codec Read More... Posted 29 June 2010 16:19 by Stuart.King | 0 Comments Filed under: video, h.264, opensource, licensing, youtube, vp8, google

• In the market for content

  With the popularity and buzz surrounding the iPad (which has something like a daunting 3 million units sold across 80 days) as well as other mobile and tablet devices you could be forgiven for thinking that the hardware is singularly responsible for driving Read More... Posted 28 June 2010 14:35 by Stuart.King | 0 Comments Filed under: video, rich media, marketplace, ebooks, emagazines, content