Posts Tagged with ‘cross-platform’

Google’s finally let the cat out of the bag.
The company announced yesterday its intentions to create a project, dubbed OpenSocial (corresponding webpage is not active yet; Nov 1 is lauch day), very basically described to be a set of APIs, that will allow multiple platforms on the Web to play by a “universally” accepted common set of laws that will enable developers the option to “create applications that work on any social networks…that choose to participate.”
The reasoning for the [...]

Having had dominated Web video for…a long time, Adobe’s Flash is justifiably the standard when it comes to displaying clips of films, television shows, podcasts, etc. The company has built a vast client base around the platform, and thus regularly attains great amounts of feedback and suggestions, which it internalizes to help enhance the product. The fact that Adobe chooses to focus heavily on the product also enables it the option of doling out updates with relative frequency, which [...]