roundup for 2007-01-10 … SecondLife / iPhone / DRM

Posted on | January 10, 2007 |

the official Linden Blog features the transcript of yesterdays Town Hall talk with Cory Linden, CTO of Linden Labs. obviously, Cory mostly addresses issues regarding the recent open sourcing of the SecondLife client-software, like possible plugin-infrastructures, the installation of CVS and if/when Linden’s server-software is following the client’s path into public. not very much definitive info, but there is a roadmap promised to be released later this quarter.

Arrington predicts the death of DRM. so be it. and quick!

all the hype & gorgeous pics about Apple’s iPhone aside, consider what David Pogue from the NYT - one of very few with actual hands-on experience - is reporting:

Both in the onstage demo and during my hands-on hour, the Web speed was OK—not great, but OK. But all of this used the phone’s built-in Wi-Fi, not Cingular’s notoriously slow Edge network. I couldn’t help wondering how bad the speed will be when you’re connecting over the cellular airwaves.

lets hope Apple adds 3G-support until this sweety is launching in europe (Q4/2007).

Ryan Carson points out that the iPhone is the first mobile platform really suitable for mobile web-apps. I’ld like to add that it really is the first mobile device capable of running AJAX-apps (given that it runs a fairly decent port of Safari, with full Javascript-support). since the phone is based on Mac OS, I’ld also bet that a Flash-plugin isn’t too far away.

sitepen has an interesting post on how offline web-applications implemented with the Dojo Offline Toolkit (DOT) could look & work like. including detailed mock-ups of a - fictional - offline Gmail-prototype. offline webapps could be the next big thing, but DOTs approach (basically installing a local proxy-application) doesn’t seem very intriguing to me.

 

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