Another nail in Flash coffin?

I'm not a techie so colleagues who teach computing at my university may disagree with me but the more I read about Flash and HTML5 the more it feels as though Flash is in permanent decline.  The quote from this GigaOm article about SoundCloud seems rather convincing:

"People are eight times as likely to share the sounds after playing them (with the) HTML5 widget as compared to the Flash version,”

With those metrics why wouldn't you migrate to HTML5?

Cloud Wars: Google 1, Microsoft 0

Any organisation thinking of moving its internally managed email and calendaring over to a cloud provider should read this.  The University of California at Berkeley recently made the switch and weighed up Google and Microsoft 365. Google won.  However, Berkeley have drawn up a matrix of the criteria against which they made their choice.  Although Google won overall, it was quite a close-run race.  Worth a read.

A cloudy outlook - whether you like it or not

I know Hillingdon Council is not unique in migrating to the cloud - in this case Google Apps - but I am convinced this is the direction of travel for organisations of all shapes and sizes.  If their estimate of a £250,000 annual saving is correct then the logic is pretty convincing.  Read more about it on the ComputerWeekly site HERE.

96 hours to meltdown

I almost wish I hadn't read this piece from GigaOm about how vulnerable we are to power outages.  96 hours of no power and it all starts to fall apart.  I'm going to order my solar-powered phone charger now.

The digital dilemma

Harry McCracken's post on ReDigi gets to the heart of ownership issues in a digital world.  I've been wondering about this for about 8 years when someone tried to sell an iTunes song on ebay.  How do you sell a second-hand non-rivalrous good and stay within the law?