Extra Future

Day: January 11, 2011

  • Why Twitter Was the Only Company to Challenge the Secret WikiLeaks Subpoena

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    Phil Nelson
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    [The why is important, but more important is that they did it at all.][link] I’m certain that Facebook, MySpace, etc, got similar requests and complied with them without even thinking. [link]: http://www.fastcompany.com/1716100/why-twitter-was-the-only-company-to-challenge-the-secret-wikileaks-subpoena “Why Twitter Was the Only Company to Challenge the Secret WikiLeaks Subpoena | Fast Company”

  • Google to Drop H.264 Support in Chrome

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    Phil Nelson
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    [They’re replacing H.264 support with WebM][link] (a video codec [acquired and open-sourced][webm] by Google last year). It looks like the HTML video codec pissing match is about to start up again. [link]: http://blog.chromium.org/2011/01/html-video-codec-support-in-chrome.html “Chromium Blog: HTML Video Codec Support in Chrome” [webm]: http://extrafuture.com/2010/05/19/webm/ “WebM”