Had to share this epic animated trailer created by Kondrikthus using DoInk.com & Windows Movie Maker to splice in MGM/EA logos & sounds.
I wish I had this much talent, I get chills when Ra tips his hand!
Had to share this epic animated trailer created by Kondrikthus using DoInk.com & Windows Movie Maker to splice in MGM/EA logos & sounds.
I wish I had this much talent, I get chills when Ra tips his hand!
Adobe should refocus their iPhone-deployment goal on the future of Flash:
Establish Flash (the tool) as the premier tool for creating rich HTML5 content, the same way Photoshop is the premier tool for image manipulation and Illustrator is the premier tool for vector drawing. Adobe is in the tools business, first and foremost.
Make Flash (the tool) cross-compile between Flash Player binaries and HTML5/Javascript. Then use Flash Player as a legacy compatibility layer for browsers that don’t fully support the necessary standards, including Internet Explorer and Firefox.
Of course, I expect this to happen right after Apple allows iPhones to install apps from outside of the App Store. So… never. But it’s nice to wish.
Better to be your own disruptor than someone else, but agreed: it’s wishful thinking to assume Adobe would do this.
Of course, that leaves room for startups to tackle this in some way.
(For those unaware of the dilemma, read Christensen’s excellent book)
It should go without saying these days, but tech companies wishing to take insurance against decelerating internal innovation and growing competition ought to be producing robust APIs against their core offerrings / value.
APIs fundamentally alter the dynamic of innovation by increasing the ‘surface area of opportunity’ from the size of your R&D operations to anyone aware of your value. It also provides the ability for outsiders to recast the core value, free of the burden from escalating features indicative of serving higher up the value chain.
These opportunites can be capitalized in one of two ways:
(Be careful, opportunity-type #2 is a mine field of ill-will. Received warmly: Twitter’s acquisition of Summize. Received less warmly: Twitter’s acquisition of Tweetie)
What better defense against the future than a well leveraged API exploring it on your behalf?
Great companies provide their value two-fold; directly via primary channels, and through unbounded secondary channels by way of their API. Some companies do this fanatically well:
I’d bet heavily against large organizations not opening up their primary value, or with existing APIs that are not being developed against.
Facebook’s chance at success over MySpace felt obvious ‘back in the day’. The difference was hardly aesthetics, MySpace was truly an information-ghetto, and Facebook very cleanly defined the properties & relations of a person, a social ontology.
So which startups & large companies is Facebook about to steam roll now that it is single-handedly rolling out the semantic web with a total-ontology ?
I couldn’t be more excited to see how this evolves.
This monday, I completed my first marathon ever (Boston), dressed as a giant Android Phone on behalf of my friends @RunKeeper, wearing my Vibram Five Fingers for all 26.2 miles, while raising money as part of Team Grateful Nation.
Phew.
Ambulatory again, after-thoughts:
With respect to doing it ‘barefoot’: I didn’t break any calluses, my feet held up just fine (thanks to hundreds of miles of training). However, the nerve’s capacity to endure hours and hours of asphalt-tapping was a limiting factor, one I hope goes away with further running.
Thanks to everyone who sponsored my charity & run, and to those who came out to watch, you guys made it possible! And a VERY special thanks to my girlfriend, Allison, who bandit-ran the last 6 miles with me (starting at Heartbreak Hill) and endured my darker moments.
Does Tumblr + Vimeo (or other service) support HTML5 video rendering? If I post videos on this blog, will iPad surfers get to enjoy the content as well?
A birthday gift (hidden behind a riddle) from my girlfriend. Thanks for the great gift, Allison! :)
Enjoy this weekend, because when you come back to work on Monday morning, some of us will have had our first taste of the future. And what you’re working on today might not seem so interesting anymore.
Yes, this is about the iPad.…
I believe!
