Media Decoder Blog: Adblock and Wikipedia Look to Raise Money for ‘Free’ Software
Adblock, Mozilla and Wikipedia are some of the big-name free software projects looking to raise money in innovative ways.
Why the Knight-Mozilla Technology Partnership is betting on open source and distributed innovation
How exactly do we Firefox the news? It's a question to ask now that the Knight Foundation has partnered with Mozilla to create news technology fellowships to help spur innovation in newsrooms. The way it works (at least at this early stage): Fellows, a mix of technologists, designers and developers, will be embedded in newsrooms...
The NewTeeVee Guide to Playing WebM Video
Google open sourced its WebM video format in May, and more and more applications as well as video vendors are starting to support the new format. However, how do you actually play back WebM videos? This handy little guide tells you all you need to know. 
Vid-Biz: Hulu Subscriptions, World Cup 3-D, WebM in Firefox
Today on the Net: More rumors about Hulu's subscription and mobile device plans emerge, Mozilla commits to adding WebM support in the next version of Firefox and AT&T U-verse adds ESPN 3-D ahead of the World Cup, making it the third affiliate to do so. 
Developer Hopes to Bring H.264 Support to Firefox
Up until now, those who wanted to watch HTML5 video in the Firefox browser were unable to access content that was encoded the H.264 format. But that could soon change, as a new project seeks to remedy this by marrying H.264 video to Mozilla's Firefox browser. 
Finding Value in Google Buzz
I’m not an early adopter of the latest tool. I’ll happily sit back and wait for the dust to settle before I consider using any new application.
It has been my experience that this is a good practice. Most of what hits the social web usually putters and falls into obscurity.
So when Google Buzz...
Twones May Be a Legal Hype Machine. But It’s No Hype Machine.
If you want to make a great music service, you either need to spend yourself into oblivion or risk lawsuits that will do the same thing. Twones has a clever idea to avoid both fates, but its service suffers as a result.
Good News for HTML5: H.264 Streaming Will Remain Free
Good news for HTML5 proponents: MPEG LA has announced that it will extend its royalty-free license of the H.264 video streaming format for an additional five years. In doing so, the license holder has agreed not to charge for use of the near-ubiquitous H.264 encoding format through 2016.The move comes after YouTube and Vimeo rolled...
Could Anti-Google Choices Re-Energize Yahoo?
Can declarations by tech celebrities (the technorati, as it were) start a snowball effect that impact the usage patterns of regular people? It doesn't always happen, but such sentiments can galvanize the crowd in certain cases, especially when attached...
