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Jason Garrett-Glaser, currently lead developer of x264, on the state of Internet video. Thoughtful, detailed, insightful analysis.
Daring Fireball Linked List: Flash, Google, VP8, and the Future of Internet Video - I’d venture to add “thorough” to the list of adjectives for Jason’s piece.
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Dear Google, With your purchase of On2, you now own both the world’s largest video site (YouTube) and all the patents behind a new high performance video codec — VP8. Just think what you can achieve by releasing the VP8 codec under an irrevocable royalty-free license and pushing it out to users on YouTube? You can end the web’s dependence on patent-encumbered video formats and proprietary software (Flash).

Open letter to Google: free VP8, and use it on YouTube - Free Software Foundation - If Google heeds this letter’s advice, the web would change for the better overnight.

Update 7/17/10: They did.

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We recently asked you for your ideas (and votes) on how to make Reader better. One of the more popular suggestions was adding favicon support for subscriptions, so today we’re introducing just that (thanks to 20%-er Shreyas Desai).

Official Google Reader Blog: Let your subscriptions’ personality come through : Just one example of why I left NetNewsWire for Google Reader. It’s constantly evolving, and most of the changes have been for the better. NetNewsWire, lovable as it is, hasn’t really changed much in over three years. I’m a believer in Brent’s age of hybrid apps, but the desktop just can’t keep up with the pace of web app development, and as the web gets richer functionality in the browser (which will inevitably happen as Google’s Chrome OS gains traction), I wonder just how often we’ll see hybrid apps as opposed to web apps that run on the desktop. Certainly Adobe and Microsoft, with AIR and Silverlight respectively, are anticipating that future, but closed technologies will not proliferate like the web will (and has).

Did I just have a web app technology digression? Looks that way.