As part of the Chrome Experiment, Canadian Indie Rock Band – Arcade Fire, have released an interactive music video for their song “We Used To Wait”. By using some amazing HTML5 stuffs and data from Google Maps, it creates an amazing music video.

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Jolicloud is a Linux-based operating system for netbooks. It is built upon Ubuntu and the earlier versions had a user interface which is quite similar to Ubuntu Netbook Remix. However, with Jolicloud 1.0, which has been launched just a few days back, things have changed. Instead of the old interface, Jolicloud 1.0 now has a…

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Microsoft has finally jumped into the HTML5 video codec war by announcing that its next browser, Internet Explorer 9, will go with H.264 support not the open-source Theora. H.264 and Theora are video codecs which are competing with one another to be the standard codec used in HTML5. While Theora is an open-source format; H.264…

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HTML 5 introduces new elements to HTML for the first time since the last millennium. New structural elements include aside, figure, and section. New inline elements include time, meter, and progress. New embedding elements include videoand audio. New interactive elements include details, datagrid, and command. Read more here

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Google Apps Withdraws Internet Explorer 6 Support and adds new web features such as HTML5 support.

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Yes, by now we all know that YouTube finally supports the new and exciting HTML5 video which allows for video playback without using Adobe Flash. While this seems like a good news in the sense that we no longer have have to rely on Adobe’s Flash to watch our daily dose of YouTube videos, there…

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After YouTube announced its new HTML5 roll out, it is now Vimeo’s turn to announce that they are also implementing HTML5  experimentally (read beta). Just like that with YouTube, the supported browsers listed by Vimeo are – Chrome, Safari and Internet Explorer with Chrome Frame installed. No mention is made of Opera and Firefox although…

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YouTube finally announced that it will start HTML5 video support. HTML5 video support means that users will no longer have to use Adobe’s Flash player to watch videos. The video codec that is used now is the proprietary h264 codec instead of the open-source Theora.

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Earlier this month, Google had launched the Offline version of their email service, Gmail which was using the google gears as a storage for the inbox.  We had also conducted a poll on whether this Offline version of GMail could replace desktop mail clients and not very surprisingly we had 76 % votes for the…

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