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MobBase Adds Free HTML5 App Creator for Bands, is This Tunecore for Apps?
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HypeBot
Hype aside, apps really can be a fine way for artists to “connect with their fans," as overused as that expression might be. MobBase debuted another interesting entry in the budding market for helping bands build apps — a trend that at the very least gives them a new way to promote themselves to their fans, and could even turn into a significant revenue stream. Its idea: an HTML5 app that's free for any band to create, and which runs ...
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Pandora Ends Free Listening Limits, Launches New HTML5 Player
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HypeBot
Perhaps as a reaction to increased “free music" competition from iHeartRadio to Spotify or perhaps to offer advertisers the biggest possible audience, Pandora has eliminated it's 40 hour free listening cap. The move came on the same day that the music service rolled out a click new HTML5 player with more social sharing to all users. New Pandora features include:
Faster Load Time—HTML5 enables the site to load almost instantaneously and allows for fluid navigation across the service.
Simplified Station ...
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A Look at Creation of Amazing Danger Mouse, Jack White, Norah Jones HTML5 Video
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Amazon Lures Authors with 70% Royalty Deal, and HTML5
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Michael Ricci
When money talks, people tend to listen. In a bid to lure authors, Amazon.com on Wednesday said it would give writers 70% of the revenue, minus expenses, from their digital books sales on Amazon's Kindle store.
In addition, Amazon said it is giving authors the ability to sell their Kindle digital books on their own websites, using an Internet standard called HMTL5.
The two announcements are designed to attract authors who have not yet found a traditional publisher. In this ...
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YouTube: HTML5 Video is No Match for Flash
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All About Jazz
YouTube has some bad news for those of you hoping the site would soon ditch Flash in favor of HTML5 video tags: It isnt going to happen any time soon.
Thats message from the YouTube developer blog which cites half-a-dozen areas where Flash trumps HTML5 and explains why the tag does not currently meet all the needs of a site like YouTube. The emerging HTML5 standard, which is quickly being adopted by browser manufacturers and developers, offers native video-playback and ...
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Embed Videos in Your Web Pages Using HTML5
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All About Jazz
HTML5 video is taking the web by storm.
Not only has a very public (and contentious) debate unfolded on the web about the efficacy of presenting videos using HTML5 instead of Flash, but momentum is gathering behind the nascent web standard.
From giant video sites like YouTube to Wikipedia, everyone it seems wants to get their video out of Flash and into native web formats. With Microsoft recently announcing it will support the HTML5 video tag in the coming Internet ...
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New HTML5 Tools Make Your Browser Sing and Dance
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All About Jazz
HTML5s tag gives you a way to embed audio files directly into a web page without requiring a plug-in. But the audio element could do a lot more than just offer Flash-free inline audio players on your favorite MP3 blogs. The audio player element could end up fueling a whole new class of web applications online audio editing suites. Some online audio editors written in Flash already exist, and people are using them to creative ends. But were just now ...
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HTML5 for iPad Won't Kill Flash, but Could Change Apps
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All About Jazz
Publications, media companies and web developers have a new way to provide video on the Flash-free zones that are the iPhone and the impending iPad: using HTML5 to stream video within the Safari browser. Brightcove, which provides an online video backend system for several websites including Wired.com, said Monday that it will help media companies and software developers stream video to the iPad and other platforms using HTML5. A welcome “enabling" technology in the short-term, given the lack of support ...
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Microsoft to Double Down on HTML5 with Internet Explorer 9
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All About Jazz
With the latest releases of Opera, Google Chrome and Firefox continuing to push the boundaries of the web, the once-dominant Internet Explorer is looking less and less relevant every day. But we should expect Microsoft to go on the offensive at its upcoming MIX 2010 developer conference in Las Vegas, where, it has been speculated, the company will demonstrate the first beta builds of Internet Explorer 9 and possibly offer a preview release of the browser to developers. Several clues ...
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SublimeVideo Hopes to Simplify HTML5 Web Video
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All About Jazz
Flash might not be disappearing overnight, but theres no denying that HTML5 is gaining momentum every day, particularly when it comes to web video.
YouTube and Vimeo both recently announced support for browser-native video through HTML5, joining other, smaller web video sites that already supported HTML5. But while HTML5 video is here, it isnt quite ready for prime time. There are the codec issues, but even without considering those, the unfortunate fact is that even just watching HTML5 video isnt ...
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