{"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":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.mozillazine.org\/schrep\/archives\/2007\/10\/mozilla_and_mobile.html\">Mozilla moving to mobile<\/a> &#8211; a great post from Schrep at Mozilla on their plans in the mobile space (prioritizing mobile platforn, adding mobile developement staff &#038; a version of &#8220;Mobile firefox&#8221;). Also of interest was this tidbit about why now &#038; available hardware:<\/p>\n<p>\n<em>Getting 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&#8217;s in the iPhone!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>CNet has an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com\/Google-tools-to-power-virtual-worlds\/2100-1043_3-6212325.html?tag=nefd.lede\">interesting piece<\/a> about a partnership between Multivers and Google that: <\/p>\n<p> <em>&#8220;will allow anyone to create a new online interactive 3D environment with just about any model from Google&#8217;s online repository of 3D models, its 3D Warehouse, as well as terrain from Google Earth.&#8221;<\/em> <\/p>\n<p>The project, referred to as Architectural Wonders project, <em>&#8220;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<p>While the article is mostly about multiplayer role playing the implications for local are interesting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mozilla moving to mobile &#8211; a great post from Schrep at Mozilla on their plans in the mobile space (prioritizing mobile platforn, adding mobile developement staff &#038; a version of &#8220;Mobile firefox&#8221;). Also of interest was this tidbit about why now &#038; available hardware: Getting a no-compromise web experience on devices requires significant memory (>=64MB) &#8230;<\/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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}