(Because there’s a 99% chance that you’re in the 99%…)

Came across this website yesterday, founded by a group of likeminded individuals who at some point in their careers had the pleasure of coding for Flash.  Since moving on and thanks to the relatively recent (in the grand scheme of the internet) unveiling of HTML5 these developers, (and even Adobe themselves) have stated they believe HTML5 and certain components in particular (H264, and Canvas are just 2 that spring to mind) are the future for the internet. Their goal, rid the internet of the Flash Plugin.

Their reasons being the constant need for updates, and the regular security issues that seem to crop up.  They state that they aren’t backed by a corporation or a rival of Flash and that this is self motivated.

For someone who is tech savvy or keeps up with tech news, it’s not hard to imagine that someday in the future the internet will be Flash free as websites upgrade.

Their aim is to speed up that process.

My first thoughts on this matter were that will never happen a small organisation like that can’t force change on such a large scale.

Secondly I reconsidered and thought well it’s bound to eventually happen anyway they’re just giving a helping hand… and if just a few large corporations get onboard or choose to back this movement, it could give it exponential momentum.

My most recent thoughts however were, but some websites already do support HTML5 alternatives take YouTube for example, that link taking you to an almost identical HTML5 YouTube. However they continue support for Flash in parallel with it. The only global company that I know to have dropped flash support is Apple for all of it’s Mobile / Touch devices.

My conclusion was dropping Flash is a good thing, it will have drawbacks to begin with, and it will be obsolete / discontinued eventually, but just maybe Occupy Flash could speed up this process.

http://occupyflash.org/

Let me know what you guys think?
Ash

Okay, so I’m slightly skeptical about this device, the website is fairly barebones, and it just looks like many concept pieces you can find on the internet which don’t actually exist.  However the NoteSlate claims to have a release date set for June 2011 for the Basic models, Black or White e-ink, and December 2011 for Red, Green & Blue e-ink, what i’m really excited about though is one that is set for the following year with a multicolour function.

It seems to be the ideal geeks toy, picture taking something to lecture that you can’t browse facebook on but you still enjoy using because its a hot piece of tech, I for one think a device such as this would massively boost productivity, in place of a laptop with internet browsing capabilities, it has set firmware, you can’t use it for gaming either (Although i envisage the first hack released for it will probably attempt to turn it into an affordable 13 inch Graphics tab)

Above is the multicolour version estimated for some point in 2012.

The price tag associated at the moment stands at $99 USD or ~£67 GBP which i see as being fairly reasonable for this kind of device, its battery life is 150-180 hours on a full charge, and WiFi is an optional extra (apparently for no extra cost).

Content is retrieved from the device via USB, over WiFi or SD Card Reader, and it can store up to 32 GB of ‘notes’ on the aforementioned SD Card (which by the way is quite a lot of notes).

Devices like this always have their flaws, and quite honestly i can see the price being hiked up on release.

The website can be found here http://www.noteslate.com