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After a few weeks of chaos, most of the gang is back in full force, catching up on what’s been going on on the conference scene, and we get diverted in to many philosophical tangents (what’s new?)

Conferences

http://java.sun.com/javaone/

http://opensourcebridge.org/

Couple of audio glitches in this hour-long episode - skype kept dropping people.  :/

This content is pre pended to the Episode 12 audio.

Host Updates

Clint Talbert and Sam Minnee guesting.

News

Google Releases O3D
* Announcement http://code.google.com/apis/o3d/
* Alex Russell loves it http://alex.dojotoolkit.org/2009/04/an-now-for-something-entireoooh-shiny/
* Chris Blizzard on the differences between O3D and the open 3D work being done in Firefox http://www.0xdeadbeef.com/weblog/?p=1223

Persevere
http://godark.us/tu103958

Sun Aquired by Oracle
http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/04/oracle-acquires-sun-ars-explores-the-impact-on-open-source.ars

Mark Pilgrim “Fuck the Foundries”
http://diveintomark.org/archives/2009/04/21/fuck-the-foundries

FireDiff
http://ajaxian.com/archives/firediff-firebug-extension-to-track-changes-to-dom-and-css

Volume Controls in Safari
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10226032-2.html

RIP Geocities
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/04/23/2339224

VMWare offers Buzzword
http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=16402

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Host Updates

Adam and Matt at SXSW last week.

Mikeal falls in love with Greasemonkey.

News

IE 8 released today
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/default.aspx

Dogdeball guys release FourSquare
http://playfoursquare.com/index

Jan and Chris start a CouchDB consulting company
http://jchrisa.net/drl/_design/sofa/_show/post/Announcing%20couch.io

Great Looking Open Source Conference
http://opensourcebridge.org/

Accessibility Insanity
http://diveintomark.org/archives/2009/03/18/if-it-fails-for-some

Publishing

Clay Shirky on the revolution
http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2009/03/newspapers-and-thinking-the-unthinkable/

Dave Winer on a rampage
http://www.scripting.com/stories/2009/03/19/theRebootOfJournalism.html

IBM buying SUN - what impact will this have?

James Ward in RDU - augmented reality - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zARP8zcgURU

FlexMonkey - Firebug for Flash

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Host Updates

Mikeal released PushMarks

• http://www.mikealrogers.com/archives/433
• https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/10806/

Michael has epic battle with QVC

• http://michaelkimsal.com/blog/web-sites-need-direct-access-to-tech-support/
• http://michaelkimsal.com/blog/how-do-i-get-the-attention-of-someone-at-qvc/
• http://michaelkimsal.com/blog/qvc-rocks/

Weekly WebDev News

This week the web has been abuzz with the release of Bespin.

• Announcement
  http://labs.mozilla.com/2009/02/introducing-bespin/
• Early Reactions
  http://www.blueskyonmars.com/2009/02/14/bespin-code-in-the-cloud/
• Bespin source to become a few reusable libraries
  http://kazhack.org/?post/2009/02/19/Code-editors-in-Mozilla-apps
• In just a couple days two people integrated Bespin with Eclipse
  http://labs.mozilla.com/2009/02/thanks-for-the-bespin-contributions-eclipse-xwiki-and-more/
• Bespin and canvas in depth
  http://benzilla.galbraiths.org/2009/02/17/bespin-and-canvas/
• Keeping your job in the down market
  http://www.alistapart.com/articles/fillingyourdancecard
• White House fixes their feed
  http://intertwingly.net/blog/2009/02/17/White-House-FeedBack-Loop
• RDFa in HTML5
  http://intertwingly.net/blog/2009/02/14/RDFa-in-HTML5
• jQuery Plugins R0CK!
  http://www.reynoldsftw.com/2009/02/10-quick-win-jquery-plugins/
• Glad I wasn’t using Ma.gnolia
  http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2009/02/19/magnolia-data-is-gone-for-good/
• Windows 7 Boot Animation, I bet this could be done with a jQuery Plugin
  http://blogs.msdn.com/e7/archive/2009/02/18/engineering-the-windows-7-boot-animation.aspx
• Mikeal
  http://www.adambossy.com/blog/2009/02/19/the-paradox-of-self-education/
• How many times has this article been written “How not to pitch a startup”
  http://particletree.com/features/how-not-to-pitch-to-a-startup/
• Attacks against local storage engines
  http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/19/2055210

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Firefox on Windows Mobile http://dougt.wordpress.com/2009/02/10/milestone-1-fennec-for-windows-mobile/

Miro 2.0 released http://www.getmiro.com/blog/2009/02/miro-20-is-here/

British Communications Minister releases interim “Digital Britain”, plan for UK digital transition.

http://www.culture.gov.uk/what_we_do/broadcasting/5631.aspx

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/feb/10/cory-doctorow-digital-britain

JsonML specification http://jsonml.org/

Moonlight, Silverlight on Linux http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/02/moonlight-10-brings-silverlight-to-linux.ars

What Interface Engineers Wish Designers Knew http://www.rosenfeldmedia.com/announcements/2009/02/future_practice_interview_bill.php

Javascript Mag - coming soon - http://jsmag.com - and maybe Kindle-enabled by summer!

Also, we’ve got some discussion about suggested steps for people looking to enter the web development job market.