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A field guide to web apps

An interactive book of guidelines for designing web apps:

http://www.html5rocks.com/webappfieldguide/toc/index/

Contributed by Jeremy Adirim

The Expressive Web

Adobe’s The Expressive Web demos the emerging capabilities that html5 and css3 deliver.

Evolution of the Web

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.

Don’t Fear the Internet Tutorials

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/

GE exercises their blogging voice

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

What will the Internet be like in 2015?

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

Ideas About the Future of Education

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.

More Mobile, Please

Here’s some more data on mobile trends from Google.  A little “salesy” but some good stats.

Contributed by Collin Whitehead

Visualize Information Spreading Over Social Networks

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