It’s April Fool’s day. You have to be careful what you read on the internet.
Remember when we wrote about Google gigabit internet in St. Louis? Google asked cities to make a case for themselves and Topeka decided to change it’s name to Google, KS. And for today, if you google something you’re actually ‘Topeka-ing‘ it. Pretty funny, Google.
There are quite a few other stories floating around about ABC, CBS, NYT and WSJ switching all of their content to HTML5. While these may seem like far-fetched April Fool’s jokes, some of them are actually a few days old and likely true. It seems Brightcove, the company that provides video for Time, NYT and others, has switched their framework to support HTML5 video and thus render Flash passé.
Fine with us. Shortly after writing Flash vs iPad, Taylor downloaded the latest beta iPhone/iPad SDK and started working on some cool, non-Flash apps.
From Engadget:
The momentum towards HTML5 and away from (or at least in parallel with) Flash seems to be accelerating with today’s launch of the free Brightcove Experience framework for HTML5 — a “way to publish, distribute, and monetize web video for the iPad and other Apple devices” according to the Brightcove press release. While Brightcove might not be a household name, some of its 1,000 customers, including Time Inc. and The New York Times (a Brightcove investor), certainly are — both of whom are already using the new HTML5 solution in preparation for the iPad’s April 3rd US launch. A real coup for the Flash-hating Steve Jobs if you start factoring in the rumored Flash-free NPR and Wall Street Journal iPad sites as well as that little HTML5 iPad test CBS was testing out in the open last week.
It looks like Stevesy has won, or at least got most of the heavy hitters in publishing to come over to the Apple/HTML5 side.
This is no April Fool’s joke. You can now download iPad apps on the App Store. I just got the iWork suite.
