> “We believe that the native browser experience is the best reading experience for documents” as opposed to Flash, which requires duplicating browser functionality inside a browser, Friedman said. Scribd users will get such functionalities as search, zoom, and scrolling via HTML5, he said. > > “Previously, the Flash application needed to provide all that functionality itself, which meant that users had to learn and work with a whole new interface in order to manipulate what they were reading,” said Friedman. > > While Scribd is primarily a consumer site, it does have an enterprise…

> “The technology issue I think Apple has with us is not that it does work, but when it does work,” he said. “We don’t want to play technology games when Apple is playing a legal game. We’re focusing on everybody else. There’s a huge wave of innovation, there’s going to be a wide range of devices.” > > Lynch went on to mention the Open Screen Project, which he said has more than 70 partners working with Adobe, and he believes great innovation will come from it starting…

> It is this prescient and necessarily restrained motivation that reveals the true reason why Apple has closed up tighter over the last few years: it’s not to take control of the world. It’s specifically to separate themselves from a pack of companies they *need* as their competitors but *want* relegated to the lower margin areas of the market. Apple will stay closed as long as being closed is a net positive to their business. Until people either start abandoning their products because of this or the do the…

> The 3.5″ 1.44MB HD floppy may finally be going gentle into that good night. Sony, one of just a few companies that still produce the archaic computer storage media, has announced plans to [end production of floppies](http://www.macworld.com/article/150837/2010/04/floppydisk.html "Macworld: Sony to end floppy disk production") in March 2011. via [arstechnica.com](http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2010/04/the-once-ubiquitous-floppy-finally-being-axed-by-sony.ars?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss)If you still don’t understand why Apple is fighting…

People who don’t live in San Francisco are most likely tired of hearing it by now. But I just want to reconfirm and reiterate that if you’ve never been to San Francisco with your iPhone, you have no way of knowing just how terrible we have it here. Especially not if you live in Philadelphia. For three days, I went everywhere from Center City to many of the surrounding suburbs, walking, standing still, and driving at various speeds, and NOT ONCE did I ever have anything but full…