Author: Paul Gurney

Paul Gurney is a web architect and web developer based in Maine in the USA.
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HTML 5 vs Flash — the Shoot-out

HTML 5 vs Flash — the Shoot-out

Readwriteweb talks about how Flash and HTML5 both have performance issues in browsers (mobile and desktop); so why then is Apple so deadset against Flash on the iphone? It frankly annoys us to death here.

Jan Ozer is an expert in video encoding technologies, has worked in digital video since 1990 and is the author of 13 books related to the subject. Recently, he put HTML5 up against Flash in a series of tests that pitted the two technologies against each other on both the Mac and PC and in different web browsers including Internet Explorer 8, Google Chrome, Apple Safari and Mozilla Firefox.

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Dynamo video rental service

New on-demand video rental platform — new way to offer rentals for your videos.

If you are a video producer, you know it’s been difficult to make money from selling your videos online. Advertising has typically been the only route to monetization.

Enter a new company, Dynamo.

Once Dynamo launches, anyone who owns a video they think people would pay for will be able to rent it to them via Paypal, for whatever amount of time they want, at whatever price they want, with no charges up front. The video owner immediately gets 70 percent of that revenue, while Dynamo will keep 30 percent — simple. Creators can set prices anywhere from $2 to $12 for viewing windows ranging from six hours to seven days.

But the main reason video creators of all stripes, be they independent, pornographic or whatever, might want to use Dynamo’s solution instead of or in addition to YouTube (both contracts are non-exclusive) is that they can control more of the user experience – everything from the domain name to the design of the website where their video appears.

Read More at Wired.com

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Popular Ebook formats

Not interested in a Kindle? Try Ebooks

There are many ebook formats. New services aim to simplify the complexity.

Scribd (website) is a document-sharing social network. Lulu (website) is a user-controlled book publishing service.

Both Scribd and and book publishing service Lulu support multiple devices including PC, smartphones and e-readers, and a variety of formats like ePub and PDF.

You can upload a file in any format and convert it to all other formats. So, your ebook reader and Kindle can both display your digital content.

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Twitter Tips: 5 Ways to Get Retweeted

Twitter Tips: 5 Ways to Get Retweeted
Helpful article by the author of The Social Media Marketing Book, Dan Zarrella. #1 – Time and day matter.

Read more at CIO.

Author Kristin Burnham writes: What makes your tweets worthy of sharing? One Twitter expert explains the time of day when you are most likely to be retweeted, “magic” words and other tips.