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RIP Flash: Why HTML5 will finally take over video and the Web this year

Apr19
by on April 19, 2014 at 7:00 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, Design & Dev

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Erika Trautman is the CEO of Rapt Media. Cassette tapes, 8-tracks, and … Flash. All three of these mediums need a player to work, and all three mediums are either dead or dying. Just as CDs replaced tapes as a more efficient means of playing music, and digital files replaced CDs to do the same, HTML5 is making Flash obsolete. The HTML5 versus Flash debate has been a hot topic among Web developers for years – and even more so since Steve Jobs published his now infamous 2010 letter touting HTML5 as the future and Flash as “no longer necessary.”…

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11 Android apps to make notifications more interesting

Apr19
by on April 19, 2014 at 5:00 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, chat head, evergreen, messaging, notifications, Product Reviews, Roundups

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I love Android as much as the next non-Apple owning guy, but there are times when I get bored of using the same old operating system, and seeing the same boring old notifications. Thankfully, there’s no shortage of different ways to liven things up without having to root your phone, or in some cases, even spend a penny. Sure, Facebook’s chat-head style notifications set a trend for a bobble-headed approach, but that’s not the only way you can modify how you get informed about new events, and for older handsets that haven’t been gifted with features like lock screen widgets…

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11 Android apps to make notifications more interesting

Apr19
by on April 19, 2014 at 5:00 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, chat head, evergreen, messaging, notifications, Product Reviews, Roundups

Notifications
I love Android as much as the next non-Apple owning guy, but there are times when I get bored of using the same old operating system, and seeing the same boring old notifications. Thankfully, there’s no shortage of different ways to liven things up without having to root your phone, or in some cases, even spend a penny. Sure, Facebook’s chat-head style notifications set a trend for a bobble-headed approach, but that’s not the only way you can modify how you get informed about new events, and for older handsets that haven’t been gifted with features like lock screen widgets…

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The single biggest reason most entrepreneurs fail in 2014

Apr19
by on April 19, 2014 at 3:00 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, Entrepreneur, LifeHacks

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Ali Mese is the CEO and founder of PIQERS. This post originally appeared on Mese’s Medium blog. Exactly two years ago today, I woke up at 5 in the morning. Yes, I was suffering from our generation’s new sleeping problem. It is caused by too much blue light, especially when you stare at your cell phone before sleeping, which leaves you awake after only a few hours of sleep. I thought it was useless to try sleeping any further, so I decided to get up and start working. After checking my emails, I found myself on Twitter. One of the tweets…

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The single biggest reason most entrepreneurs fail in 2014

Apr19
by on April 19, 2014 at 3:00 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, Entrepreneur, LifeHacks

distracted employee
Ali Mese is the CEO and founder of PIQERS. This post originally appeared on Mese’s Medium blog. Exactly two years ago today, I woke up at 5 in the morning. Yes, I was suffering from our generation’s new sleeping problem. It is caused by too much blue light, especially when you stare at your cell phone before sleeping, which leaves you awake after only a few hours of sleep. I thought it was useless to try sleeping any further, so I decided to get up and start working. After checking my emails, I found myself on Twitter. One of the tweets…

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