I am excited about VP8. For those who don’t know, Google bought a digital video compression format and gave it to everyone declaring it royalty free. VP8 is bumping elbows with the likes of the popular H.264, which is of course patent restricted. When I saw clips of Google announcing VP8 and the WebM project at Google I/O, I went to the net to find more information and to hear all the cheers. Doing a quick search I found a surprisingly low number of cheers. Mostly I saw VP8 v. …

Hello, friend. I feel a bit embarrassed – you’ve walked into the middle of a conversation here. No, please don’t go. It would mean a lot to me if you stayed and participated. I’m eager to hear what you think.
However, before you do that, there’s a lot of backstory that you should probably wade through. I’m not trying to give you homework or anything – all I’m suggesting is that you’ll understand this post a little better if you read this, this, and this first. If you don’t want to, …