'html5' Tag
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KO for the mobile web ?
April 15, 2014In a widely circulated piece last week entitled The Decline of the Mobile Web, Chris Dixon touches on a fashionable debate that suggests that the mobile web is in, well, decline, at the hands of the new walled gardens known as the app stores. In other words, that universal cycle of life that has been […]
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HTML5 is cross-platform
January 8, 2014One of my portfolio company CEOs sent me this graphic, which I believe best illustrates the true cross-platform nature of HTML5 for gaming.
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Why I’m enthusiastic about HTML5
February 26, 2013I find that my best venture investing tends to happen when I structure my thinking around investment themes or theses. One current thesis I hold is that HTML5 will usher in a democratizing force comparable to the advent of web itself. It almost sounds like I’m overstating the obvious when I think about it like […]
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The HTML5 guru speaks: now carrier grade
February 1, 2013CTO of Momac Alex Rutgers crafted a whitepaper years before HTML5 took the mobile world by storm on the technology’s compelling potential. It was thus with great enthusiasm that I learned that Alex found time to produce a sequel to his original paper laying out his vision for HTML5’s future evolution. One interesting conclusion is […]
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Job trends: iOS vs Android vs Flash vs HTML5
January 5, 2013Another signal of the maturing nature of HTML5 (courtesy of Indeed.com): HTML5, flash, ios, android Job Trends Html5 jobs – Flash jobs – Ios jobs – Android jobs
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Infographic: HTML5 mobile gaming
November 18, 2012Many mobile game companies still choose native iOS or Android as their first route to market, only to discover that it’s very challenging to stand out among hundreds of thousands of other games in the traditional app-stores. There is, however, a viable alternative approach that is quickly gaining interest worldwide: HTML5. BoosterMedia has released a […]
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HTML5 vs Apps, a holy war or peaceful coexistence?
October 4, 2012Like Yin vs Yang, Cain vs Abel, Coke vs Pepsi, another of the universe’s great dualities manifests itself in the face-off of HTML5 vs Apps. I share with you some domain carknowledge from the wisest man I know on this topic, BoosterMedia founder Laurens Rutten… Not too long ago, the HTML5 developer camp was cheering […]
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Europe still has a winner in Barça
March 6, 2012Last week Europe hosted the Mobile World Congress, an annual ritual in which over 60,000 people in dark gray and black suits invade Barcelona in an event originally organized by the consortium of mobile network operators. The event used to be called 3GSM, named after the nearly ubiquitous technology standard for mobile communication. The GSMA […]
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Rumors of Flash’s demise greatly exaggerated ?
August 3, 2011Last summer’s heated public brouhaha between Apple and Adobe has been more of a low simmer during summer 2011. The initial calamity of not being able to play Flash on the iPad (and not being able to do this even faster on the iPad2) has subsided. This is probably due to a number of factors, […]