Without boring you to death on the details of HTML5, I will say that it will likely be a game changer for the learning industry for a number of reasons:
- HTML5 improves video and audio quality extensively. As a result, your social learning/social media experience has just increased infinitely. Vivemo, Blip.tv, and YouTube (beta) are already offering videos in HTML5 players.
- HTML5 has improved interactivity over Flash.
- HTML5 is open source - not proprietary like Flash.
- HTML5 provides enhanced