The initial release of this open-source multi-media library came in December of 2000, but only now twelve years later has it hit the over-emphasized 1.0 milestone. Michael Niedermayer, the official FFmpeg maintainer since 2004, mentioned on the developers list that he uploaded the 1.0 release. However, he’s not updating the FFmpeg main page until after he’s got “a bit of sleep”, so the official announcement is likely still a couple of hours out.
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Barnes & Noble’s Nook HD Tablets Face iPad, Kindle Fire HD
The Nook HD features a 7-inch display (1440 x 900 resolution), a dual-core 1.3GHz processor, 1GB of RAM, expandable microSD storage, an 11.1-ounce weight, and advertised battery life of 10.5 hours of reading and 9 hours of video. In its publicity materials, Barnes & Noble didn’t exactly pull its punches against archrival Amazon, claiming the Nook HD is 20 percent lighter, a half-inch narrower, and armed with a sharper-resolution screen than the Kindle Fire HD.
via Barnes & Noble’s Nook HD Tablets Face iPad, Kindle Fire HD.
W3C announces plan to deliver HTML 5 by 2014, HTML 5.1 in 2016
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the group that manages development of the main specifications used by the Web, has proposed a new plan that would see the HTML 5 spec positioned as a Recommendation—which in W3C’s lingo represents a complete, finished standard—by the end of 2014. The group plans a follow-up, HTML 5.1, for the end of 2016.
via W3C announces plan to deliver HTML 5 by 2014, HTML 5.1 in 2016 | Ars Technica.
The new HTML 5.1 will be smaller as a number of technologies (such as Web Workers and WebSockets) were once under the HTML 5 umbrella but have now been broken out into separate specifications. It will also have less stringent testing requirements.
Diaspora Will Now Be A Community Project
Diaspora is an open-source and distributed community of social networks run by users that enables you to own your own personal data, control with whom you share, and discover cool stuff throughout the Web.
via Diaspora — Announcement: Diaspora Will Now Be A Community Project.
Main site here (http://diasporaproject.org/).
Red Hat Announces Preview Version of Enterprise-Ready OpenStack Distribution
RALEIGH, NC – August 13, 2012 – Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the immediate availability of the preview release of Red Hat’s OpenStack distribution based on the popular open source OpenStack framework for building and managing private, public and hybrid Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) clouds. With this, Red Hat delivers the next step in its plans for the industry’s only enterprise-ready OpenStack distribution with Red Hat’s award-winning commercial support, certified ecosystem of hardware and application vendors and leadership in delivering trusted open source clouds for organizations worldwide requiring enterprise-grade solutions and support.
via Red Hat | Red Hat Announces Preview Version of Enterprise-Ready OpenStack Distribution.
MySQL :: MySQL Cluster 7.2 GA Released, Delivers 1 BILLION Queries per Minute
MySQL :: MySQL Cluster 7.2 GA Released, Delivers 1 BILLION Queries per Minute.
70x Higher JOIN Performance, NoSQL Key-Value API & Cross Data Center Sharding with Replication
Oracle is delighted to announce the immediate availability of the production-ready, GA release of MySQL Cluster 7.2, available for download under the GPL, and as part of the commercial MySQL Cluster Carrier Grade Edition, including management tools, product certifications and 24×7 global support.