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Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More - Ten Recent Great Startup Posts

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HTML5 video markup, compatibility and playback - Niall Kennedy's Weblog , February 8, 2010 The emerging HTML 5 specification lifts video playback out of the generic element and into specialized handlers. This post looks at the implementation details of HTML 5 video.

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32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder

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Do you want Flash video, HTML 5 video, or both? Video (and Audio) - if you have video, are you hosting it or can we use YouTube, Vimeo? Do you need to process user-contributed media? What about reporting and moderation? Does it need to playback on mobile devices? Notifications - what notifications are needed in the system? Dismissable?

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32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder

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Do you want Flash video, HTML 5 video, or both? Video (and Audio) - if you have video, are you hosting it or can we use YouTube, Vimeo? Do you need to process user-contributed media? What about reporting and moderation? Does it need to playback on mobile devices? Notifications - what notifications are needed in the system? Dismissable?

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Los Angeles Web Developer

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The result of web design are static pages as graphics or HTML. And he’s right there’s a big difference. Web design typically refers to the process of interface design and graphic design. Web development refers to the design and creation of the database, code, and dynamic elements of the site.

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How to Hunt Programmers for Your Startup - A Field Guide

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So, if I'm at an event that's full of prey, I will go around the room introducing myself to people (probably starting with the host) and roughly say: "I've got a concept defined and some early customers, but I'm not sure if using a mobile framework, building native apps directly, or maybe even doing an HTML 5 app is the right way to go.

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How to Hunt Programmers for Your Startup - A Field Guide

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So, if I'm at an event that's full of prey, I will go around the room introducing myself to people (probably starting with the host) and roughly say: "I've got a concept defined and some early customers, but I'm not sure if using a mobile framework, building native apps directly, or maybe even doing an HTML 5 app is the right way to go.

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Not Betting on Flash

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Instead I'm betting on HTML/JavaScript. Do we include Flex or Flash as a delivery technology? That's my bet. I'm not betting that Flash is dead in five years. I'm hedging by NOT betting on Flash. That's been a relatively safe bet for many years.

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