John Gruber (Daring Fireball) has high standards. He talks about how he prefers to embed video in his web pages, and how he ends up doing it. He refuses to use Flash, and seeks a neat embed only solution that doesn’t autoload, but loads a poster image. Here he talks about the best solution he could find using the <video> tag in HTML5 and some JavaScript, because of what he sees as a shortcoming of the defined standard.

“…across from the Giants’ baseball stadium, the forces of modern games are colliding…” Joseph Menn for the FT is certainly not my favourite tech journalist. What I don’t understand about this article is it talks about the financial advantage social games have over console games, which may be true in terms of agile responses to gamers’ feedback. But the article is a profile of iPhone game app developer, Ngmoco. And the App Store is notorious in the way it slows down the agile process because of the approval lag.

Social gaming and iPhone apps are turning big business apparently. Now there’s some news. Not sure what this article is telling us other than the FT is looking at this sector and probably like most of its readers, trying to fathom it. “The business models are changing so rapidly, though, that it is hard to make firm predictions.”