You may have noticed we have had a birdhouse hanging here at gspdigital.com housing a pair of birds from Audubon’s Birding the Net contest that we at GSP have been a part of. It’s not too late to start birding, in fact, the competition is just beginning to heat up. Get started by rolling over a bird above or visit the game on Facebook.
Infographic from Kiss Metrics explaining what a bounce rate is:
Using Kinect, Romain Dumaine controls sound with gestures with an aim to enhance interaction between a DJ and the crowd.
Kinecthacks.com showcases other kinect/sound experiments.
On the site Two of Us, anyone can take a picture of themselves smiling and share it with another smiling stranger.
Amazingly simple, but still a fun way to connect and add some humanity back to the Internet.
The Trimensional app is a 3D scanner that generates models using the iPhone’s front-facing camera.
Via Laughing Squid
Most of us are familiar with the current technologies and buzz words of the Web — various browsers, APIs, HTML5, WebGL, etc. But how many know how we got here?
The Evolution of the Web beautifully charts this history. An interactive timeline, it invites you to poke around, browse screen shots of antiquated programs, and click to learn more about different technologies.
Continuing the Internet self-education theme, “Don’t Fear the Internet” is another great resource bank of instructional videos that explain how the Internet works and teach some basic coding.
The project was cooked up by designers and it, in their words, will “help demystify html and css coding so you can prettify your blogs and quit asking your nerd friends for freebies!”
Check it out: http://www.dontfeartheinternet.com/