On January 27, 2010 Apple revealed the iPad, to the world. The potential of this product is amazing and truly could help the news industry reinvent themselves, in an interactive way. If you missed the keynote or didn’t make it all the way through Steve’s presentation here is a pretty cool “edited” version, to give you the “jist” of the iPad.

What this “Incredible, Beautiful, Amazing” tool didn’t doesn’t won’t support is the Macromedia Adobe Flash player. In an article from Wired Magazine, Jobs is quoted as saying “Adobe is lazy. Apple does not support Flash because it is so buggy. Whenever a Mac crashes more often than not it’s because of Flash. No one will be using Flash. The world is moving to HTML5.”

With big name players like YouTube, who is testing support for their player, in HTML 5.0, it seems this feeling isn’t just in Steve’s head. As a matter of fact, Mashable released the results of a poll they ran: “Who would win in a fight: Adobe Flash or HTML5?”

HTML5 handily knocked out Adobe Flash. With 3,891 votes, HTML5 garnered 61% of the polls. Adobe Flash was able to muster 1,779 votes (28%), while 660 said it was a tie (10%). See actual results below:

read the full post from Mashable here

News Corp’s network consists of more than 110 national and suburban newspapers. The New York Post and the ever popular and extremely (organically) visible site, The Wall Street Journal. Not to mention News Corp. owns the Fox Corporation.

In the interview he claims that they will allow for the first paragraph to come up on the search engines. I’m assuming he’s talking about the meta description. Anything after that is subscription-based. This is something I’ve become familiar with as (New York) Newsday has recently implemented a similar strategy. Their subscription based model is to help subscriptions to either their weekly (at-home) delivery or the triple-play package (TV, Internet & Phone) by their parent company, Cablevision Systems Corporation (NYSE: CVC).

I think we will. But that’s when we’ll start charging. We do it already with the Wall Street Journal. We have a wall, but it’s not right to the ceiling. You can get the first paragraph of any story but if you’re not a paying subscriber to WSJ.com, you get a paragraph and a subscription form.

My favorite quote from his interview is “There are no news Websites or blog Websites anywhere in the world making any serious money, some may be breaking even or making a couple of million.” This just shows you the kind of man this is. Making a couple of millions sits right next to breaking even, in his eyes. I would think sites and papers like WSJ.com or NewYorkPost.com are doing much better than breaking even, but obviously my warped perspective must start above a couple of million.