The good news is that Mozilla’s popular Firefox browser is getting video support. The bad news is that you probably won’t notice.

Why? Because the video codec that is coming to Firefox isn’t commonly used: Ogg Theora. Firefox will also be adding a new HTML tag to …

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In yet another step toward openness/transparency, Google has announced that it will begin providing context around how it customizes its search results. As The New York Times reports:

Google uses its best guess about where you’re and sometimes the history of what you searched for in an attempt

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Within hours of Nullriver releasing its NetShare application through Apple’s iTunes Store, Apple apparently put the kabosh on the application, which allows users to turn the iPhone into a modem. Users can, of course, still use the application on a jailbroken iPhone, if they can find it. Nullriver doesn’…

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In a fantastic, insightful post, Tim O’Reilly lays the blueprint for the next decade of open source in the cloud. Money quote?

[I]f you care about open source for the cloud, build on services that are designed to be federated rather than centralized. Architecture trumps licensing any time.

This follows on Tim’s constant theme over the last few years: Data is the new Intel Inside. It’s a critical point given the nearly meaningless tie between open-source licensing, triggered upon distribution of software, and the web, which is premised on non-distribution of software. Increasingly the web is being turned into competing bunkers of data, as Tim writes:

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