Hype 1.0

Hype is an OS X app that makes creating HTML5 content easy, with no coding required. Looks quite impressive, available now on the App Store for $29.99.

Twitter + Ping = Discovering More Music

All your activity on Ping can now be streamed into Twitter, including song information and previews. Thanks to Twitter's API this also opens up the opportunity for developers to create interesting things from this new data.

Microsoft Shifting Away From Silverlight

Silverlight will continue to be a cross-platform solution, working on a variety of operating system/browser platforms, going forward, he said. “But HTML is the only true cross platform solution for everything, including (Apple’s) iOS platform,” Muglia said.

Glad to see Microsoft supporting open standards and not clogging up the web with more proprietary crap.

Firesheep

Firesheep allows you to capture unsuspecting users accounts to popular websites while connected to any open WiFi network. In the form of a simple, easy to use Firefox extension. It has always been possible to steal users accounts on unprotected WiFi, but never this easy. (via Daring Fireball)