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Google's On2 Acquisition: Part of its Open Web Video Standards Effort?

Google's announcement yesterday that it is acquiring video compression company On2 Technologies for $106.5 million may appear to be just another acquisition in a buyer's market, but there is a strong chance that it could dramatically affect video standards online. Because of the enormous share of online video viewing that Google's YouTube commands, the company can swing a bigger stick in setting online video standards than many people realize, and the company has already been frustrated by the refusal of leading browser makers to agree on a central, shared codec to mutually support.

Ars Technica suggests that the On2 acquisition will have a big impact on web video standards, and The Register comes right out and speculates that Google will quickly open source On2's video compression codecs. I lean toward the latter scenario.



Adobe Delivers Two New Flash-Focused Open Source Technologies

Today, Adobe announced two new Adobe Flash Platform open source initiatives aimed at developers, media companies and publishers. The two new technologies being open sourced are designed to help content publishers and developers build Rich Internet Applications (RIA), and Microsoft is focusing on the same goal with its Silverlight technology. Silverlight is competitive with Flash, although Flash is much more entrenched. (For example, Adobe claims that more than 80 percent of video hosted online is Flash-based.)

The two technologies being released as open source are: 1) Open Source Media Framework (OSMF), previously code-named Strobe, which allows developers to build customized media players based on the Adobe Flash Platform; and 2) Text Layout Framework (TLF), which developers can use to bring customized typography capabilities to web applications.



Bsquare Has An Adobe Flash Browser Plug-In for Android Devices

Recently, we covered the announcement of HTC's Hero smartphone, and Adobe's partnership with HTC to make sure that the Hero runs Flash technology. According to Adobe, over 80 percent of all videos delivered online are based on Flash, and users of the Hero will be able to watch YouTube and other video content seamlessly on their smartphones. Now, Bsquare has announced the development of an Adobe Flash browser plug-in for ARM-based devices running Google?s Android 1.5 ?Cupcake? platform. BSquare's port of Flash technology is likely to be adopted by many of the companies delivering Android-based smartphones and netbooks this year.?


HTC's Hero Phone: The First Android Device to Run Flash

Yesterday, we covered the announcement of HTC's Hero smartphone with its slick, customizable new HTC Sense interface. The phone runs the open source Android operating system, and is a thin touch phone with no physical keyboard. Now, Adobe has announced that it is working with HTC to make sure that the Hero can run Flash. That means that the many Flash elements and components on the web will run smoothly on the Hero, users will be able to watch YouTube and many other videos and video shows, and more.


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Firefox 3.5, Release Candidate 1 is available now. It's being delivered as an automatic update, and the release notes and download are here.

Google: We want Chrome to grow the Web. Marissa Mayer, Google's vice president of search products and user experience, weighs in on browser innovation.

Will Google Wave revolutionize free software collaboration? What impact might it have on free software users and developers?

A Mozilla update on open video codecs and quality. How does video encoded with Theora compare to video encoded by YouTube?

Will Ubuntu remain a minor player? It has problems in the channel.



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Boxee adds Pandora Radio and hints at the future. The open source media center application's Pandora feature is brilliant, and there's more in a new alpha.

Awesome Tweet: Peter Rojas says Flash coming to Android. The development house BSQUARE has been hired to port Flash to the Android platform.

Shifty answers from Microsoft at OSBC? Some of the company's answers to open source questions sounded like mumbo-jumbo.

Gone but not forgotten: 10 operating systems the world left behind. Some people miss OS/2.

Launching a Linux startup: no funny business. Hackett and Bankwell is a series of cartoon manuals that teaches readers how to get started with Linux.

?Sun crams the Internet in a box. Three petabytes of archived web pages.?



Chrome, JavaScript, and Flash: Two (Mostly) Opposing Views


In one of the more interesting reviews of Google's open source Chrome browser, released yesterday, AP technology writer Peter Svensson suggests that Google missed the boat by focusing on JavaScript performance in the browser, and submits that the real culprit behind much pokey web performance and many browser crashes is Adobe's Flash. Notably, Svensson's diatribe against Flash coincided with some interesting comments sent to us at OStatic from AdventNet/Zoho CEO Sridhar Vembu. Vembu sees Chrome's focus on JavaScript as right on, to the point where it may begin to stifle Flash. Here's the gist of all this.