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The SitePoint Podcast: Compuwhatnow?
In this show, the guys discuss Compuserve shutting down. You remember Compuserve, right? Also: US states gang up on Amazon with an “affiliate tax”, PHP 5.3 and Firefox 3.5 are released on the same day, the debate raging over the standard format for video in HTML 5, and XHTML 2 rides off into the ...
- Running time
- 0h35m
- File size
- 33.00MB
Episode synopsis
Episode 19 of The SitePoint Podcast is now available! This week your hosts are Patrick O’Keefe (@ifroggy), Stephan Segraves (@ssegraves), Brad Williams (@williamsba) and Kevin Yank (@sentience).
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Episode Summary
Here are the topics covered in this episode:
The Affiliate Tax
- Amazon: North Carolina Affiliates Will Be Terminated When “Unconstitutional Tax Collection Scheme” is Enacted (Another Good Reason to Use Skimlinks?) (Patrick O’Keefe)
- Amazon Associates To Pull Out Of North Carolina Due To “Unconstitutional Tax Collection Scheme” (TechCrunch)
- Update: Amazon Closes North Carolina Based Associates/Affiliate Accounts (Including Mine, Which Was At Least 9 Years Old) (Patrick O’Keefe)
- Amazon Drops More Affiliates Over Online Tax Issue (Information Week)
- Why Does North Carolina Hate Amazon? (The Motley Fool)
Compuserve Shuts Down
- Compuserve Shuts Down (Boing Boing)
PHP 5.3 Released
Firefox 3.5 Released
- Firefox 3.5 is Out - Download it Now! (SitePoint)
- Firefox 3.5 for Developers (Mozilla)
The HTML 5 Video Format Debate
- Decoding the HTML 5 video codec debate (Ars Technica)
XHTML 2 Development Will End at the W3C
- RIP XHTML 2 (SitePoint)
- HTML 2 Working Group Expected to Stop Work End of 2009, W3C to Increase Resources on HTML 5 (W3C)
Host Spotlights
- Stephan: DjangoCon 2009 calling for proposals
- Brad: Twittorati: Tob Blogs on Twitter
- Patrick: Eternal Moonwalk
- Kevin: The Open Web Tools Directory
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