Adobe’s The Expressive Web demos the emerging capabilities that html5 and css3 deliver.
If this then that puts the internet to work for you. The free service allows users to set up a number of ‘recipes’ that fit the structure: if this happens, then do that. For instance, if rain is in the forecast, then send a text notification or if there’s a new post on Craigslist for a certain item, then send an email. Simple utility.
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.
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/
Awesome free tool for learning how to code in Javascript! http://www.codecademy.com/
Introducing Flixmaster, an HTML-5 video editor/player that could enable new ways to experience digital video online.
Since it allows users to produce online video content with a simple drag and drop system, this could be fun technology to explore for digital storytelling projects.
Contributed by Ralph Paone
Much like TinEye, Google has launched their version of search-by-image.
Contributed by Ricardo Hieber
Who doesn’t like Bjork?
Our friends at Jam3 http://www.jam3media.com/ who showed off their new site (coming soon) at FITC (its pretty insane) have been busy working with Bjork on her new site which just launched http://bjork.com/.
Its the first phase of her Biophilia project and it will continue growing over time.
HTML5 and they made their own 3D engine to parse the info coming out of Google Sketchup where it was designed by the Parisian artists M/M.
Editor’s Note: This is an excellent use and example of HTML5 + 3D being used in a site. HTML5 works on mobile and iPad as opposed to Flash, which does not work on i-anything-mobile.
Contributed by Jeremy Adirim J2theA
Ever since we’ve seen the extinction of analog audio formats, we’ve been spending time and energy reminiscing and attempting to replicate the look and feel of the classic turntable. There have been tons of projects that will take your MP3s and filter their audio to sound more like the cassette tape or record you remember listening to as a kid and, this blog has covered a great deal of them. The fad isn’t going away anytime soon and if you’ve been keeping up, most recently a project, turntable.fm has been growing out of control (it’s a ton of fun and you should try it out).
wheelsofsteel.net is another great turntable experiment that you should really check out, done by Scott Schiller. He wrote an extensive article on how he went about designing and developing the HTML/Javascript (that’s right – no flash) project here http://www.schillmania.com/content/entries/2011/wheels-of-steel/, and it’s an extremely interesting read. Check it out!
