Apple to provide Live Stream

This is huge! A first in many years for apple-

Live Video Streaming

Apple® will broadcast its September 1 event online using Apple’s industry-leading HTTP Live Streaming, which is based on open standards. Viewing requires either a Mac® running Safari® on Mac OS® X version 10.6 Snow Leopard®, an iPhone® or iPod touch® running iOS 3.0 or higher, or an iPad™. The live broadcast will begin at 10:00 a.m. PDT on September 1, 2010 at www.apple.com.

This announcement may be bigger than I thought. If some of the new rumors are true the new Apple TV may be a hit. My prediction is on par with some of those out there iOS enabled Apple TV.

Looking forward to tomorrow!

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Facebook Places Fails #inbend

Last night I did an update for my iPhone and was greeted with the new Facebook version that includes places, their new location based service announced yesterday. Well guess what...

I just want to check it out and am looking forward to it when it is available. I currently use Foursquare and this may or may not shut the door on Foursquare. Time will tell.

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Another Flash Video Site Down!

Vimeo announced today that they are going HTML 5 in what is another march forward to kill flash for video on websites. This is really exciting for Vimeo and this paragraph best sums up the new capabilities.
> The Universal Player is as easy to use as the old embed code, just a lot more compatible. Instead of being a direct link to a Flash player the new Universal Player can automatically detect what kind of device is viewing the video and choose the optimum player based on the device's capabilities. For example, it will serve mobile video to iPhones and Androids and HD to iPads and Desktops. On other mobile devices it can use the native player of the device or an optimized mobile Flash player with bigger controls. It also allows us to introduce new players as technology changes, potentially allowing us to do things like serve HTML5 to IE9 and WEBM video to Firefox.
I think this also shows how mobile is really beginning to get the nod on how we are beginning to consume our videos. Congrats Vimeo.

By the way if I haven't said it before I really don't like flash for video!

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The Google Verizon "Deal"

Last week the announcement was made between Verizon and Google and this great post surfaced. Very much agree with this statement:

Increasingly, technology companies are shipping devices with access to wireless broadband networks pre-installed. It’s not just smart phones any more: laptops, tablets, gaming devices, entertainment systems, navigation tools, automobiles... And while the term “wireless broadband” has come to mean wireless phone services like 3G and 4G networks, the term also likely includes wireless city initiatives. So... what could have caused Google’s founders to abandon the principles of net neutrality just as the web begins entering its wireless era? Could it be that they have the opportunity to control and to profit from a web user’s wireless experience in a not so distant future when being “wired” will be like saying you use a rotary dial phone? 

My thoughts will come later.

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Google is the Mobile Winner

By now you should have seen this graph, but if not here it is in all of it's grandeur.

As you can see if we are comparing the winners in the mobile space Google may be the king for some time to come.

See more here.

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