Before Google Reader slammed the competition, one of the promising Ajax-driven RSS Readers was NewsAlloy. It was my personal reader for quite awhile, but system stability issues ultimately drove me into the arms of Google. Volodymyr Danylyuk, the creator of NewsAlloy has just announced that he is selling the service, but will keep the lights [...]

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The Rich Media Wars has a new contestant in the arena. Joining Adobe’s Apollo/Flex and Microsoft’s Silverlight is Sun Microsystem’s newly-unveiled JavaFX. JavaFX (code-named F3) is targeted for rich desktop/browser applications, and especially the mobile market. They are also open-sourcing the language from the beginning as openjfx, which is quite encouraging. Demos of JFX are [...]

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Last week, SplashCast released a product called “MyPodcastNetwork” that allows anyone to effectively remix podcasts via RSS in a browser-based media player. The original podcasts are transcoded into Flash to allow for immediate playback. Some hailed the player as a great innovation, others as the height of piracy. Marshall Kirckpatrick responded with refactors aimed at [...]

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