Flash isn't redundant yet says YouTube

This YouTube blog entry explains why Flash isn't redundant yet and what it provides that HTML5 can't do yet. It's an interesting read:

http://apiblog.youtube.com/2010/06/flash-and-html5-tag.html

Bebo moves on

AOL has sold Bebo to Criterion Capital Partners for a rumoured $10m or less. Criterion have described the site as "attractive media platform".

Read more:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/jun/17/aol-confirms-bebo-sale
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/cf6e4258-7a08-11df-9871-00144feabdc0.html

Twitter gets on the money

Twitter has rolled out the second phase of it's monetisation: Promoted Trending Topics. And Disney / Pixar are the first ones to buy a promoted topic. They've chosen Toy Story 3, which gets featured at the bottom of the trending topics list and also gets them the top tweet on the results page.

Read more here:
http://techcrunch.com/2010/06/16/twitter-trending-topics-ad/

Android market share increasing

Read this nice article explaining why Android is doing better that the initial figures suggest, against Apple. Android's market share is increasing and it's taking that share from Apple.
It also brings up something I keep on forgetting; which is that iOS isn't just on the iPhone - you've got to include iPods and iPads - which take the numbers up to a hefty 18.3 million devices.

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/android_steals_market_share_from_iphone.php

Adobe vs Apple - the next step

In the next chapter of the Adobe vs Apple saga; Adobe have teamed up with Greystripe to land their next move. Together they'll be trying to deliver Flash based ads to the iPhone!
Well is actuality Greystripe will be converting Flash ads into HTML5, which will work on the iPhone. Additionally the ads will work on Google's Android smartphones.

It will be interesting to see if this conversion, almost by hand, by Greystripe and Adobe will work and where it will take us in the Apple vs Adobe ever-continuing war.

Read more:
http://mashable.com/2010/06/07/adobe-flash-ads-iphone/

http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20100607/adobe-tries-creeping-back-onto-the-ipad-with-help-from-greystripe/

Google starts Twitter ads

Google has given a soft launch to Twitter ads within their Google Content Network. A "no-brainer" as far as I'm concerned and great that Google have created this ad format.

Read more about them here:
http://www.clickz.com/3640539

Yahoo adds Facebook to site

Yahoo will be adding Facebook features to it's homepage, mail service and other pages very soon. For full details of Yahoo's social media integration read more on the link below:

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/yahoo_adds_facebook_begins_new_role_as_social_network_aggregator.php