This fantastic article was just posted the first of this month and has a great collection of “25 HTML5 Features, Tips, and Techniques You Must Know” by Jeffrey Way on net.tutsplus.com. I learned quite a bit from reading this article, which can be read in its entirety in less than 30 minutes without having to click links to other sites to get the “full” information.
A few of the things I learned which will save tons of time in future projects are: Continue Reading >
The latest version of Google Chrome is now available and comes standard with Adobe Flash. To make people aware of this new feature, Google launched a Flash-based YouTube game called FastBall.
The goal of the game is to get a ball through an obstacle course in the fastest amount of time, but instead of the typical “manipulate the ball through the course” routine, players must answer a series of questions to advance the ball. Questions are all web-based and include challenges that use Google, Twitter and, of course, YouTube. Some examples of questions are “Choose the fastest method of transportation between points A and B using Google Maps” and “Search for three things that have decreasing results.”
Apple has put together an overview of some of the capabilities of HTML5 and CSS3 with some very nice examples. Check it out at http://apple.com/html5/.
HTML5 and CSS3 will enable a rich web unlike anything we’ve ever experienced before. The use of rich typography (without plugins) alone is going to change the visual quality of the web while providing an unparalleled user experience. The typographical revolution of the web is upon us!
O2 Fitness is one of our clients here in the PR department at HM&P and we have had a lot of fun helping them spread the word about their seven (and growing!) locations around the Triangle.
O2 Fitness already runs their own Twitter account, Facebook fan page and blog. A new avenue of social media marketing we have explored with them are location-based applications. One of the new growing trends in social media – location-based applications – allow you to share your location with others by ‘checking in’. Continue Reading >
Google has announced Google TV: a service built-into TVs or set-top boxes that gives you web access to find and stream video and more to your TV. As someone who doesn’t have cable or any other live TV subsciption, I get my TV content exclusivly from the internet via a Mac mini hooked up to my TV. Google TV takes the searching/streaming that I already do and makes it simple. Hopefully it’ll work as they describe in the video below, and I can add it to my technological arsenal.
Apple’s Worldwide Developer’s Conference sells out for the third straight year in a record-breaking eight days. Not a good sign for Flash.
Think social media is just a fad? Watch this video, a refresh of the original Social Media Revolution.
