Updated Caverns of Xaskazien to Version 3.23
Looks like Google Chat has implemented sound notifications. DownloadSquad reports that "Oddly, you need to have Flash enabled in order to hear the ping". Not exactly odd to me, as I mentioned before, there's no nice cross-browser way to do sound in the browser currently without using Flash. Kudos to Macromedia/Adobe for being so widely deployed and useful in this context. If nimble browser development camps like Mozilla could follow Opera's lead on implementing HTML5's Audio interface this would be a Good Thing.
The IEBlog just posted videos from MIX06 (Microsoft conference in March 2006). I've watched two of the hour-long videos. Here are my take-away summaries. Read the rest of this entry ...