I took this video with a Flip-cam back in Alllston, MA in March, 2009. I just found it on my hard drive and thought others might like it. It’s low-fi, but a lot of fun. (I would pay quite a bit of money for a handy camera that actually had good sound pick-ups – makes up for poor video quality.)

The band is Thousands of One. My brother is the drummer and they are based out of Ithaca, NY.

Thousands of One – Hidden Treasure from Christopher Blizzard on Vimeo.

For background on the free software angle on this story please check out Robert O’Callahan’s post on this topic. Also check out Mike Shaver’s shorter background post as well. This post differs from theirs in that I want to talk about network effects, why codecs should be considered a fundamental web technology and what the long-term effects of the choices at this inflection point might look like.

Recently Youtube announced that you could test out an HTML5-enabled version of their site. They said that they were doing this partially based on people’s “number one request” that Youtube do more with HTML5. (They left out the other half of that #1 request – that the implementation be based on open codecs, but more on that later.) Not to be outdone, Vimeo rushed to announce a beta version of their player based on their site that claims HTML5 support as well.

Jonathan Kew gives an overview of some of the new features that we're looking to include in Firefox 3.7 that will enable some amazing font rendering for designers.

This is a demonstration of the new orientation device API in Firefox 3.6.

Felipe Gomes gives a demo of multi-touch support on Firefox.