Links for Monday March 29^th, 2010

• How the iPad Is Already Reshaping the Internet (Without Flash): I knew this was likely to happen, I just thought that few sites would ditch flash until Apple sold millions and millions of iPads. The fact that major sites are ditching flash before the launch of the iPad is a surprise. (via Daring Fireball)

• The Beck Factor at Fox: Staffers say comments taint their work: Interesting article on Glenn Beck, which includes this tidbit:

  "More than 200 companies have joined a boycott of Beck's program, making it difficult for Fox to sell ads. The time has instead been sold to smaller firms offering such products as Kaopectate, Carbonite, 1-800-PetMeds and Goldline International. A handful of advertisers, such as Apple, have abandoned Fox altogether. Network executives say they believe they could charge higher rates if the host were more widely acceptable to advertisers."

  Way to go, Apple.

• Gov't, certificate authorities conspire to spy on SSL users?: This doesn't sound good. It's even worse on iPhone, because Mobile Safari doesn't provide any facility to inspect the SSL certificates being used.

• AMD ships first eight-core, 12-core x86 server chips: Damn, that just looks cool.