Jobs Says Adobe Flash Is Not For The iPhone

Apple CEO Steve Jobs says that Flash is not up to Apple standards when it comes to playing video and where the iPhone is concerned. Jobs reportedly told shareholders that the mobile version of the media player is "is not capable of being used with the web," according to reports from Dow Jones and C-Net. This on the same day that Microsoft announced a deal with cell phone maker Nokia to make the Silverlight media player available on phones using Nokia software. The question is what will Jobs and Apple adopt as it's iPhone player? Does Jobs have something in the works? CBC article here.

Animated search engine from Microsoft

Microsoft has launched a new search engine to showcase it's, flash competitor, Silverlight animation and video player. tafiti, which means "do research" in Swahili, is a slick application that puts some fun back in searching. The animated interface allows you to quickly flip from results of web searches, news, rss feeds, images, or even searches within books (if the publisher has agreed to allow it). The "shelf" function lets you to drag and drop search results to shelves, stack results, and place labels upon them. There is also an interesting tree view that presents your search results as leaves on a tree, you can spin the tree 360 degrees around it's trunk or prune the branches, a neat interface but maybe not so practical. There are some nice features, I particularly like the collaborative tools, but I'll have to play with it a bit more before I pass judgment on the quality of its search results. Cool just the same.