What's the point of Google's new FastFlip reader? Not to change the way you read news on the Web -- it's too ugly and simplistic for that.

But because it loads pages very fast -- and requires minimal effort to navigate -- it could be useful for portable devices. Specifically, tablet-like gadgets with 3G modems that could compete with Amazon's Kindle.

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Adobe’s Flash product has obviously been an integral part of the web for many years now. But it still has a major weakness when it comes search engines and complexity. While Adobe and others have been working on solutions to make Flash-based website more Google-friendly, they’re still nowhere near as crawl-able as regular HTML-based pages. FluidHTML or “Fhtml” is a new server-side markup language that hopes to merge Flash-like functionality with the easier-to-use HTML language.

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The Archos 9pctablet offers a 227mm screen that naturally takes advantage of the multi-touch facilities offered in Microsoft's new operating system.


Despite touting the device as a "netbook" the 9pctablet doesn't have a keyboard, relying instead on the virtual software keyboard built into Windows 7. However, Archos will supply an optional "super-slim" external keyboard.

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Largely by virtue of its support from YouTube, which some say supplies four-fifths of the Web's streaming video, Adobe Flash is the de facto delivery standard for video through Web pages.

While content creators have been urging Google and other video hosts to implement better controls over how unauthorized content can become so freely distributed, Adobe is now working on a way to enable those creators to post or host their own Flash video, in a way that they and only they are in control of the distribution process -- including, who gets to see those videos and for how much.

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