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The Hype Machine re-launch website with HTML5 technology
Dec 17th
Popular music discovery service The Hype Machine has rolled out a major upgrade to its website interface. The Hype Machine is a service with a social media element which aggregates posts from music blogs across the internet and allows users to listen to them and ‘like’ them. The most ‘liked’ songs posted in the last three days show up in the Hype Machine chart, allowing users to get a great overview of what’s popular online at that very moment.
The website previously relied on Flash technology to play music to users, but has now switched to the up and coming standard ‘HTML5′. This allows the website to be used on many of the latest smartphones and tablets, including the iPhone, iPod touch [update: iPhone/iPod touch support is not confirmed by Hype Machine and users are reporting issues with it] iPad, and Android phones and tablets. The website certainly seems to be running much more efficiently after the re-design.
Other improvements include the consolidation of songs posted on multiple blogs into one entry. Instead of seeing the same song from three different blogs as three rows in the playlist, you now see only one, allowing the user to better judge the popularity of the song.
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Partial Flash Support now available on iPhone via Skyfire Mobile Browser
Nov 3rd
The new mobile browser SkyFire has been approved by Apple and is due to be released tomorrow in the App Store priced at $2.99.
SkyFire converts Flash videos into HTML5 on SkyFire’s servers making it possible to view flash movies not previously supported on iPhone. Due to the conversion there will be a slight delay while it is processed.
Skyfore itself has been around for a few years in test mode and had been released for Windows Mobile, Symbian Devices and Android. However it does not support Flash games.