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Grooveshark Hands out 1 Month Free VIP for Former Lala Users

June 4, 2010 By 3 Comments
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It was announced on a page through Grooveshark's VIP Area that all previous members of Lala will be getting a free 1 month pass into Grooveshark's VIP program. You simple go to the address above and enter the special VIP code given to you by Grooveshark. A few months ago it was announced that huge music site Lala was closing down. It appeared to be heading on a great track, as many search results would pop up in Google through Lala when somebody would search for a song name or artist. … [Read more...]

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How Metacafe Stacks up against Video Streaming Apps

April 13, 2010 By Leave a Comment
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It's no doubt when it comes to social media and web video, YouTube takes the cake. Currently within top 5 Alexa rank and also owned by the #1 search engine and website online, YouTube has everything backing it. Google doesn't control the monopoly though, there are so many cool video streaming services out there each with their own to offer. Metacafe has shown substantial promise and growth since it's initial launch in 2003. I've been a fan of the site for a while, and ever since they released … [Read more...]

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YouTube Rolls out new User Interface for Flash Video Player

April 7, 2010 By Leave a Comment
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Having seen YouTube roll out new video and profile pages over the past few months, it's been obvious there's been a new Flash User Interface in the works for the common video player. Well as of today, YouTube has finally released the newest UI to most video pages, and are slowly trickling down throughout all videos over the next couple of days. I'm interested to see what else YouTube may have in store for the design. From my use of the design thus far I can tell it's surely a lot easier to … [Read more...]

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Interview with Adobe’s Primary Developer of Rich Internet Applications Mark Anders

July 5, 2009 By 2 Comments
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Mark Anders is a senior principal scientist at Adobe Systems, and one of his core responsibilities is to make Flash the platform for building the next generation of rich internet applications. Prior to Adobe's acquisition of Macromedia, Anders started and led the Flex Builder Team, but he is probably best known for his work at Microsoft, where during a decade-long career he led the creation of ASP.NET. Anders recently addressed the "Flash on the beach" conference for Flash designers and … [Read more...]

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