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Riya is at it again. Like.com is amazing. Google should have bought those guys... Note to Microsoft: snatch Riya before Google wises up.

As I pointed out earlier, Adobe has just donated their action script VM to Mozilla to be used in Firefox. This is really cool. For one, the VM is supposed to provide huge performance boosts. Secondly, it will ensure that your JS code works in both Firefox and Apollo to ease the migration path. However, I have to scratch my head and ask, "Why the hell didn't they donate it to WebKit/Safari?" After all, they are writing Apollo on top of WebKit, not the Mozilla's code. It is really quite amazing to me that they are investing so much in Mozilla when they are building their own platform on top of a completely different code base. Why not just build Apollo on top of Mozilla and reap the benefits of your Mozilla improvements?

[1] http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd/archives/2006/11/tamarin_project.cfm

Right now, Sprint is offering a sweet deal. Free wireless PCMCIA cards (after $150 instant rebate and then a small mail in rebate). With unlimited access at $59 a month and a very high speed wireless network, it's worth checking out. Much better deal than Verizon, who doesn't give you a free card and charges something like $80-90 a month for "unlimited" access. Verizon's package is not really unlimited though, because you get like 5 GB of transfer before you are cut off according to the TOS and you aren't allowed to use the connection to do anything but download simple HTML pages (therefore, if you are doing more than their monthly transfer limit they immediately cut you off saying you must have been downloading music or some other activity that violates the TOS).

The first glimpse of Adobe Apollo has arrived: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1551903488172905143 (via Mike Chambers http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mesh/archives/2006/11/video_leveragin.html)

"...here goes Macromedia again trying ot jump start their own ecosystem. Haven’t they learned by now? Nobody wants to hang out with slimeballs? Does anybody remember Grand Cenral or their earlier attempts at capturing and locking up a content distribution network? This latest attempt is just pathetic. Someone please tell Kevin Lynch to just go cash out his stock and buy a mansion and chill. They just don’t get the web or us. The technology and platform we handed to them (or one could say “stole”) is ALL they’re ever gonna innovate with. That juice ran out years ago. Just cause you’re called Adobe now - doesn’t mean all your problems go away. Throwing $100M at something doesn’t make it right. IMHO"

Exciting times over here at Articulate: 

Here's a newsheadline you probably won't hear anywhere else. Yesterday, a kid walked into a school in Joplin Missouri with an AK-47. He shot the ceiling, then his gun jammed and he couldn't kill anyone. The cops came and took him to jail and he was taken to the detention center. My old friend (and old roomate actually), Jared Martin happens to work there, and this kid is one of the ones he watches over. In any case, the kid tried to escape last night, but Jared stopped him. Maybe not the biggest news, but it was cool to hear.