Gucci recently went live with a series of banner ads with “Pin It” calls to action. You can save the branded glamour shots to one of your boards on Pinterest (and from there link to Gucci’s e-commerce site).
With the engagement challenge that banners pose, who knows, this could be a clever approach.
via Mashable
With Hype 1.0, you can create impressive animations and interactive sites in HTML5 without any actual code.
The brainchild of two developers formerly at Apple, Hype was developed as an alternate to Flash. More on their story here: http://bit.ly/mMIFHl
Click on some cells, press play and you’ve got a pleasant little electronic composition. Click boxes again and you can change the cells’ directions, causing them to interact, sometimes creating evolving patterns and oscillations. And like any good bit of media these days, you can even share your piece with the rest of the world. Rad!
http://www.earslap.com/projectslab/otomata
Contributed by Jeb Tankersley
Broken Bells and Arcade Fire recently released interactive website experiences as music videos. Arcade Fire’s site is done as a Chrome Experiment showcasing the capabilities of HTML5. Broken Bells use Flash.
Developer Lida Tang has managed to bring Flash to the iPhone. Using an app called Cloud Browse, users can visit most flash sites. Remote servers pre-render the flash and essentially stream it to the phone as video.
The technology is still young; flash-heavy sites stream slowly. Nonetheless, Cloud Browse is a boon for iPhone users, particularly those interested in visiting video sites.
Download the app here.
Check out another effort to bring Flash to the iPhone here and here.
Smashing Magazine has put together a collection of their favorite, “bizarre” websites. (GSP-produced “And Then There was Salsa” is featured under “Bonus” at the bottom of the page).
(Pictured Above: Incredibox)
This a great showcase of what is possible with Flash and JavaScript when designers push themselves to the limits.
Great video by Lee Brimelow from Adobe, showing Flash working on touch based devices.
I highly recommend you check it out!
Several people have been making assertions that most Flash sites will not work properly on touch-based devices because these sites use rollovers or hovers for things like effects and navigation. Well I put together this little video together showing that Flash sites do indeed work the way you would expect since the Flash Player dispatches rollover events even on a touch screen.
This video is aimed at clearing up the misinformation surrounding Flash rollover events and touch devices. The assertion that most Flash sites need to be rewritten is absolutely false. But please grab a tablet and see for yourself. I tried every FWA Site of the Month and they all worked fine. — Lee
With much ado about the state of Flash Player and the mobile web, Adobe has released some compelling videos of what its technologies have to offer here and here.
We mentioned Adobe is collaborating with Wired for a digital version of its magazine:
Android, Palm and Blackberry are working with Adobe to fully support Flash as opposed to Apple which has shut the door.
Flash Player 10.1 running different types of websites, from typical FWA sites to games to video players on the Google Nexus One.
All of these applications from Yamago, Soleil Noir, Deezer, Canal+ or Ecodazoo were built for previous versions of the Flash Player, some of them were even compiled for Flash Player 6 using AS1.
(via Thibault Imbert and Michael Chaize)