Reddit fans rejoice: on the 9th you guys got a wonderful new web app that plays well with mobile devices. Today, Reddit announced that they’re making their App Store application open-source.

From Reddit’s blog,

“We’re deprecating the advertising-supported free version in favour of making the next version that you help create free. However none of us are iPhone developers, so for this to happen we’re depending on the help of those that are. This is in the community’s hands now!”

Quite so. You can see Reddit’s original post here and TechCrunch’s coverage of the web app here.

Consuming media is incredibly important when staying mobile, whether it be news or entertainment. CBS is rumored to be testing iPad-friendly HTML5 content, removing the need for Flash videos on their network. Ultimately this will be great for consumers as it will broaden access to millions of iOS and Android devices.

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Quark isn’t a name I’ve heard recently, but 9 to 5 Mac reports that they’re ready to take on the war against Adobe. Specifically, Quark feels open-web standards will ultimately prevail over Adobe’s creative technologies in the publishing arena.

“You could reflect that one person’s challenge is another chap’s chance, so Quark has stepped out of the shadows to pitch in with its new vision of digital publishing, promising to deliver a new “publishing revolution” in which content publishers will be able to publish to multiple platforms all from one standards-based creative suite (which isn’t Adobe Creative Suite).”

Quark is careful to admit, however, that they’re willing to work with any formats publishers wish to implement. So while you could publish a great HTML5 magazine, they’re not tied to it, able to deliver Silverlight and Flash content as well. Calling their strategy, “Digital Publishing 2.0,” Quark wants to help publishers deliver automated content to any platform.

[via 9 to 5 Mac]

Alright Twitter, I have a bone to pick with you. If your Twitter service is going to go down every two days, I don’t just want to see a Fail Whale: I want to see an animated Fail Whale! So leave it to a Safari Extension called Release the Fail Whale to make my silly dreams come true. Delivering the Fail Whale in high-def CSS3, never before has such fail warmed my Twitter heart.

Check out Release the Fail Whale on Rawksome’s excellent page and test bench.

While Emoji is enabled for our friends in Japan, the United States never received the same love and attention, and at times, had hissy fits over Emoji keyboards available in the App Store. So while iOS 4 does and doesn’t have emoji available to customers, Apple is intending on updating the little emoticons to be used with applications like FaceTime and Google Maps. At least I think so according to Patently Apple’s latest finding, which shows Apple taking a deep interest in making stock and custom emoji prevalent in certain applications.

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We might not be able to deliver cross-platform Flash applications to mobile devices, but we can implement HTML5. Sencha is a combination of efforts from jQTouch, Raphaël, and Ext JS who’ve delivered the first public beta of Sencha Touch, which is the first HTML5 Framework for mobile devices. HTML5 applications allow powerful web apps to be used offline, across mobile devices (iPhone & Android), and can take advantage of third party analytics services.

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