{"id":242,"date":"2007-10-10T08:20:16","date_gmt":"2007-10-10T12:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/10\/local-links-of-interest-13\/"},"modified":"2007-10-10T08:20:16","modified_gmt":"2007-10-10T12:20:16","slug":"local-links-of-interest-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/10\/local-links-of-interest-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Local Links of Interest"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mozilla moving to mobile<\/a> – a great post from Schrep at Mozilla on their plans in the mobile space (prioritizing mobile platforn, adding mobile developement staff & a version of “Mobile firefox”). Also of interest was this tidbit about why now & available hardware:<\/p>\n

\nGetting a no-compromise web experience on devices requires significant memory (>=64MB) as well as significant CPU horsepower. High end devices today are just approaching these requirements and will be commonplace soon For example, the iPhone has 128MB of DRAM and somewhere between a 400 to 600 MHz processor. It is somewhere between 10x-100x slower on scripting benchmarks than a new MacBook Pro and somewhere between 3-5x slower than an old T40 laptop on the same wifi network. But rapid improvements in mobile processors will close this gap within a few years. There are chips out there today that are faster than the one in the iPhone and integrate graphics, cpu, and i\/o (wifi\/3g\/wimax) on one die. Intel has recently re-entered this market which will keep things interesting. Most exciting of all ARM has announced that by 2010 devices will be shipping with a processor 8x faster than what’s in the iPhone!<\/em><\/p>\n

CNet has an interesting piece<\/a> about a partnership between Multivers and Google that: <\/p>\n

“will allow anyone to create a new online interactive 3D environment with just about any model from Google’s online repository of 3D models, its 3D Warehouse, as well as terrain from Google Earth.”<\/em> <\/p>\n

The project, referred to as Architectural Wonders project, “will allow virtual-world designers to incorporate not just models and terrain from Google Earth, but also much of the metadata that makes it so powerful: the personal notations and photographs that millions of users have added to it. <\/em><\/p>\n

While the article is mostly about multiplayer role playing the implications for local are interesting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mozilla moving to mobile – a great post from Schrep at Mozilla on their plans in the mobile space (prioritizing mobile platforn, adding mobile developement staff & a version of “Mobile firefox”). Also of interest was this tidbit about why now & available hardware: Getting a no-compromise web experience on devices requires significant memory (>=64MB) …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t