Wednesday, January 5, 2011
Instagram is a photography app for iPhone. Mashable recently wrote Is Instagram the Next Distribution Opportunity for News Media?, which included an interview with Andy Carvin, a senior strategist at National Public Radio (NPR). Carvin talked about how NPR is using Instagram to connect with photographers. There’s an NPR Tumblr blog where photos from people [...]
Friday, December 17, 2010
Mobile Web Application Best Practices was released by the W3C as a recommendation this week. Early in the document, there is a list of best practices, which number 32. One I’m really hoping to see put into practice is Enable Automatic Sign-in. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve tried to use some app [...]
Friday, December 10, 2010
Writing that recent post on trends in tech got me thinking about where trends and new ideas come from. If you wanted to be the creator of the next big thing, what kind of thinking would help you figure out what the next big thing might be? Plain old creative thinking is important, of course. [...]
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
Ultimate CSS Gradient Generator is one of the ColorZilla tools. It’s online as an app. It creates a pure CSS gradient using a Photoshop-like interface and provides cross browser code. The other ColorZilla tools are downloadable and include a color picker, an eyedropper, Firebug and more. Disabilities Act may be expanded to Net and Beyond [...]
Monday, November 22, 2010
University of the People is moving into Haiti and it’s a big hit. Story from ReadWriteWeb. Twitsper is an android app that allows you to tweet only to a Twitter list. I expect it to be popular–it’s definitely useful–and make its way to other app stores as well. Or maybe into Twitter itself as the [...]
Friday, November 19, 2010
20 Things I Learned about Browsers and the Web is an interactive web app built in HTML5. It looks like a children’s book. And it’s slick. Great for a class reading assignment. Using HTML5′s New Semantic Tags Today. Terrific article by Emily Lewis at Script Junkie. Blogging to Support Policy Goals: MomsRising Shares Lessons Learned. [...]
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
The URL shortening service bit.ly announced Bit.ly Bundles on their blog yesterday. Now, instead of sending one link with a shortened URL, you can send a whole bundle of links. When you click the bundled link, it opens up in a special Bit.ly Bundles page where you get a rich media preview of every link [...]
Thursday, November 11, 2010
Fashionable Web Forms: Traps and Tips has UX advice from a pro on how to make forms work better. Why Wired Loves the Ladies. That slide of the last 32 Wired covers tells the story with such impact no other comment is necessary. Find Websites that are Copying Your Content. Great tips for tools. Mozilla [...]
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