Crash course: HTML 5 video
If you want to watch Internet-delivered video on your PC, the vast majority of Web sites have settled on a single, consistent way to do that. That's the good news. The bad news is that this single, consistent delivery system is Adobe Flash, with all its security and stability issues.

Google buys Metaweb to 'improve' search
Google has acquired Metaweb, an internet information database company, in a bid to "improve its search" offering.

Google bags Metaweb for search future
The web is more than words Google has acquired Metaweb Technologies, a five-year-old San Francisco startup that maintains a massive open database that details all sorts of real-world stuff in an effort to "build a smarter, more connected Internet."

Evaluating the Lifetime Value of a Link
Unfortunately, links fall off the link graph. Google loves freshness, and as such, it is in their best interest to eventually stop indexing pages and shifting a page that still exists from one that does pass value, to one that doesnt. As SEOs and webmasters, people who desire to have links that will continuously pass [...] Check out the SEO Tools guide at Search Engine Journal . Evaluating the ...

Institute on higher ed technology policy set for July 19-22
Cornell will welcome webmasters, computer security officers, university attorneys and others to the fifteenth annual Cornell University/EDUCAUSE Institute for Computer Policy and Law (ICPL), July 19-22 at the Statler Hotel on the Ithaca campus.

Screen Talk - Enemy agent
Following the death of Hollywood uber-agent Ed Limato a few days ago, the usual platitudes rolled in. But so did a slew of rather less kindly views on the 73-year-old agent's career, whose client roster has boasted some of the highest- profile actors in the business, including Richard Gere, Denzel Washington, Steve Martin and Mel Gibson.

iMapBuilder Launches New Version to Enable Easy Creation of Flash Interactive Maps for Websites and Flight Routing ...
iMapBuilder is renowned as an easy-to-use map software for Windows users to create interactive maps and clickable images without any programming required. The new release includes more map templates, and introduces new features that enhance the experience of building interactive maps or routing maps. A web-based version has been recently launched. Windows, together with Linux and Mac users can ...