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“ to have Congress mandate broadcast radios in portable devices, including mobile phones, is the height of absurdity.

Radio Broadcasters and RIAA Want To Make FM Chips in Cell Phones Required By Law

Absurd indeed. Why do they want FM radios in everything when there are much better alternatives. Oh, is it because they don’t make much off of those? Why doesn’t the RIAA create their own free music streaming service? Oh, because they’re dinosaurs who don’t understand the web?

 
Vimeo Releases Embeddable HTML5 Video Player

Adrianne Jeffries, writing for ReadWriteWeb:

Vimeo is releasing a ‘universal player’ today that allows user to watch embedded Vimeo videos on mobile devices including the iPhone and iPad using the video playback capability built into the new HTML5 standard.

Awesome!

Also announced is an Instapaper-style feature:

Vimeo also announced a ‘watch later’ button today that will cue videos up in a playlist for users to catch up on when they get home from work.

Excellent! I have a “To Watch” playlist on YouTube for this same purpose, but a quick button click is much easier.

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“ It is therefore more cost effective in many cases to continue to use IE6 and rely on other measures, such as firewalls and malware scanning software, to further protect public sector internet users.

The government respond to the petition about upgrading to IE6. Oh dear, what a fail indeed.

They will need to update in 2014 when IE6 reaches ‘end of life’ anyway but their slowness at this is a big disappointment and holds back the web.

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The £105m website

Trust the government to give a job like this to BT, and give them a blank cheque to do what they want with it.

In our company, if we produced a website like Business Link - and all of us worked full time on the project, even hiring some extra staff to work on research, and content provision, not only would we make a much more attractive and easy to use site than the current Business Link website, but it would cost a fraction of the price. Literally. Like less than 0.1%.

The Government should give their contracts to small businesses and get real value for money.

 
HMG - Your Freedom

We’re working to create a more open and less intrusive society through our Programme for Government. We want to restore Britain’s traditions of freedom and fairness, and free our society of unnecessary laws and regulations – both for individuals and businesses.

This site gives you the chance to submit, comment on, or vote for ideas about how we can do this. Your ideas will inform government policy and some of your proposals could end up making it into bills we bring before Parliament to change the law.

 
“ Caffeine lets us index web pages on an enormous scale. In fact, every second Caffeine processes hundreds of thousands of pages in parallel. If this were a pile of paper it would grow three miles taller every second. Caffeine takes up nearly 100 million gigabytes of storage in one database and adds new information at a rate of hundreds of thousands of gigabytes per day. You would need 625,000 of the largest iPods to store that much information; if these were stacked end-to-end they would go for more than 40 miles.

Google’s infrastructure is mind-blowing.

Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Our new search index: Caffeine

 
10 HTML5 Games Paving The Way

HTML5 is still a developing technology and we’re barley beginning to see its capabilities in more advanced uses such as games. Though HTML5 isn’t even in its infancy yet, it’s beginning to emerge and here are 10 HTML5 games paving the way.

about shaun…

Name: Shaun Robinson

Age: 25

Occupation: Web Designer / Developer

Location: Ipswich, United Kingdom

Living with: My partner Andrew, and two kids Elliot and Oliver.

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