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The Open Web & The Broken TVs

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The Open Web & The Broken TVs — Presentation Transcript

e Open Web & e Broken TVsGame On London, 6 December 2010Rik Lomas, Lomalogue Ltd.@riklomas, rik@lomalogue.com

Who’s this guy?(Hello! I’m Rik and I started an agency calledLomalogue Ltd.)

Picklive www.picklive.com• A real time fantasy football game, where real players competefor real money during real football matches.

Television + Real Time Web = e “Two Screen” Experience

First, the bad news...

“Have I told you about my Uncle Alf?He had two tellies, he had one that the sounddidnt work on, and one that the picturedidnt, but both together, it worked.So as long as he was watching the samechannel on both, sound came out of one tellyand hed watch the picture on the other.And, he slept in a rubber dinghy.”— Karl Pilkington, e Ricky Gervais Show

Web Development Today ≈A Collection of Broken TVs

+HTML, CSS Flash, ActiveX& Javascript & “Poly lls”

Flash. Ah aaah. Saviour of the universe Open Web?Photo: h p://www. ickr.com/photos/rwillia532/3890482097

Flash will always bebe er at some things.

LET’S BUILD GAMESIN FLASH!!!1!1

Now, the good news...

e diﬀerence betweenJavascript & Flash isge ing smallerand smallerand smaller.

+ Flash, ActiveXHTML, CSS & “Poly lls”& Javascript

All client-side code is free to read. anks Tim Berners-Lee, “View Source” & Firebug!Photo: h p://www. ickr.com/photos/j-o-n-o/151830908/

Codingisn’t easy.

Javascript is now jointmost popular languageon Github.

£653.30 vs Free

But Rik!What about native applications?

“...it’s basically a real time game that you can playalong to footy matches while you watch them. Youcan play on an iPad or your laptop.” “Ah, right, so it’s an app?”“Nah, it’s a normal website.” “But Flash doesn’t work on the iPad.”“It’s just normal code.” “Oh... didn’t realise you could do that.”

Predictions:– 2011: Angry Birds, Farmville– 2012: Minecra , Quake

anks!Any Questions?Tweet me at @riklomas oremail rik@lomalogue.com

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