Short news to start the day… I hate mondays (awful clichê, I know)
For the Opensource or openformat freaks out there : Pocket ogg is a very nice Music player with ogg support for S60 3rd phones. Well, OggPlayer looked way better than this one… is it 3rd compliant already?
Well, we don’t need another acronym, like “FLUI” but I sure like the idea of using some vector based technology to create UIs, like IRiver clix and U10 media players, and now Phones are really starting on it. Check it out the 1st,2nd and 3rd level of LG’s chocolate user interface to see flash in action on a commercial mobile phone. Clicking here. My doubt: how much is it scalable? How far can we go with flash interfaces? Does it worth having a 3rd party software running all the time to provide the UI? Unm, sounds kind of risky to me.
Now, running in the opposite direction than sony, MS has announced it’s plain to release tools for homebrew development for the Xbox 360. I think MS got it PRETTY right this time. What is Sony thinking? PSP is only as big as it is today because of homebrew, and sony wants to get rid of it! Ok being able to load isos is not a good thing but, sony should come up with a developer friendly enviroment or sandbox and really push the homebrew scene further.
Some really cool stuff is going on in the Second life “world”. Starwood Hotels & Resorts version of a new unit in the virtual garden. It sounds great and I really want to see more of this coming up in the future.

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