Adobe’s The Expressive Web demos the emerging capabilities that html5 and css3 deliver.
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/
The choices brands make to cultivate their own unique voice and personality on the Internet are often interesting. Here, a well-established brand, General Electric, takes a trendy approach toward blogging.
By posting vintage shots — mostly using Instagram — of significant laboratory tests and research from the past 130 years, GE manages to create more of a niché web presence for their brand, thereby making it more intriguing, and perhaps more accessible, to a larger demographic.
http://generalelectric.tumblr.com/
Contributed by James Craig
In only 4 years, what advances will we see for the Internet? These great infographics and video make some powerful predictions.
Contributed by Sosia Bert
Via Fast Co Design
PBS explores ways to adapt classroom education for kids growing up in a digital world.
Watch the full episode. See more Digital Media – New Learners Of The 21st Century.
Here’s some more data on mobile trends from Google. A little “salesy” but some good stats.
Contributed by Collin Whitehead
See how information propagates on the web.
Done for NYT stories but the underlying code can be used by anyone.
http://nytlabs.com/projects/cascade.html
Contributed by Gareth Kay
Some great mobile stats:
This is a cool info graph, but one stat has actually changed. Android is the #1 OS as of February this year (whoot):
Mobile internet will pass desktop in a hot minute
This is the current Android fragmentation (right now building to 2.0 and higher is the norm):
Also don’t forget that there is iOS fragmentation, so you need to test on devices that have not been updated to the latest OS.
Android is making a KILLING:
NFC is coming to a phone near you real soon… (better than RFID because it communicates both ways, not just a reader):
Contributed by Collin Whitehead
Dorkbot at The Exploratorium tonight, Wednesday, March 30, 7:30pm
http://dorkbot.org/dorkbotsf/
BarBot 2011, an art show with Cocktail Robotics at pariSoma in San Francisco, April 1-2 9pm-2am
http://robogames.net/barbot.php
Live Electronic Music and Sound Art Installations by CCRMA and guests (including Trimpin!) at SOMArts in San Francisco, Saturday, April 2, installations 4-8pm free, concert 8pm-12am $10 https://ccrma.stanford.edu/events/modulations/
Contributed by Caio Lazzuri