Periodic Table of the Elements
Periodic Table of the Elements by Josh Duck.
Fun interactive table showing the 106 elements currently in the HTML5 working draft and two proposed elements (marked with an asterisk).
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Intersection of Social Media & Mobile http://www.mobilemarketer.com/cms/news/social-networks/11146.html
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20 Top Tips for Designing Effective Brand Guidelines by Saatchi & Saatchi
20 Top Tips for Designing Effective Brand Guidelines by Saatchi & Saatchi.
This could come in handy one of these days.
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LukeW on What Impacts Web Form Conversion?
There are many things we can do to improve the design of Web forms. But what can we do to really boost conversion? Here’s a few case studies that illustrate how the removal, clarity, and even indication of requirements can have a real impact on form conversion.
check out What Impacts Web Form Conversion? from LukeW.
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5 Powerful Tips on How to Be a Strategic Creative
5 Powerful Tips on How to Be a Strategic Creative.
This is an important skill set for an interactive creative. Be strategic! THis article is geared more for freelancers but the basics apply to all of us in the creative field.
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MAX 2011 News Rundown
Adobe MAX Day 1
New touch apps (Photoshop Touch, Collage, Debut, Ides, Kuler, Proto)
Flash – Player 11/AIR 3 available for download tonight
HTML5 – Acquiring PhoneGap and TypeKit and further integrating into CS Suite, new release of Edge for animations
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jQuery Mobile RC1 – Released
- RC1 Released
- New ThemeRoller on the way from Adobe
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What’s different about mobile UX design? | @dmitryn/blog
What’s different about mobile UX design? | @dmitryn/blog.
Excellent article especially:
2) Consistency with the overall device experience is more important than consistency across platforms.
The “uncanny valley” that results from porting an app design straight from one platform to another, or attempting to mimic native UI elements in a web app as closely as possible, is especially to be avoided.
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Quick Amazon Silk thoughts – QuirksBlog
So Amazon has announced its Kindle Fire tablet, and it will not be an iPad killer. It runs Android, but not the standard Android, but rather a special Amazon port that does not include any standard Google apps. Notably, Amazon will have its own app store.
The Kindle Fire will also sport its own browser: Silk. Kudos to Amazon for actually giving their browser a name. That helps a lot.
Yesterday I was surprised at the fact that so many people were surprised that Amazon would use its own browser. What else would they have done? Copy Android WebKit, the most disappointing mobile browser right now? Android WebKit is hardly progressing, and if you want a state-of-the-art browser you’d better build something yourself.
On the positive side, Amazon actually created a blog about the new browser — something you rarely see in the mobile world. On the negative side, it’s bloody vague:
Amazon Silk deploys a split-architecture. All of the browser subsystems are present on your Kindle Fire as well as on the AWS cloud computing platform. Each time you load a web page, Silk makes a dynamic decision about which of these subsystems will run locally and which will execute remotely. In short, Amazon Silk extends the boundaries of the browser, coupling the capabilities and interactivity of your local device with the massive computing power, memory, and network connectivity of our cloud.
Some tantalising hints, but mostly marketing speak. Let’s deconstruct it. See also this article and this one.
Silk uses WebKit. That’s good.
Right now the Kindle Fire lacks a 3G model. However, I feel the browser has been made ready for 3G. (Why? Forward compatibility to next-gen Kindles, and see also below.)
Silk seems to be an Opera Mini-like proxy browser, where the client asks the server to fetch and render the page, and then receives what’s basically a bitmap image. This makes for very fast browsing and little data traffic. (See however update below.)
They call it “split-architecture.” Whatever.
An engineer describes it as a store for accessing your files — which reside in the Amazon cloud. That’s a good way of explaining cloud-caching.
Still, cloud-caching won’t cut it on a 3G network. The problem there is not the connection between the Amazon cloud and the website, but between the Kindle and the Amazon network.
Michael Mace discusses the Kindle, and makes an interesting remark:
Amazon could tie the browser to its own content services and distribute it to other hardware vendors. Basically, it could try to make Silk the content layer on Android that Google wants to be. This could be a good business move for Amazon, since it’s not making money from the hardware anyway.
Technically I’m not quite sure how a browser could be a content layer, but that’s mostly because I lack technical information. Of course the browser could tie in with, say, the e-reader so that it can access your ebooks and other content. We’ll have to see whether that is the case, though.
If that is the case I wonder if Silk can run on a regular Android device. Now that would piss off Google: Amazon would take over their entire content layer in one fell swoop.
And why stop at Android? Thin Silk client offering a gate to your Amazon content on other OSs? Say, on iOS? The main problem I’m seeing here is that it would need caching on the device itself. The cloud won’t cut it if you’re on a lousy mobile connection and want to read your e-book.
I could be completely wrong here; I’m arguing from severely incomplete information. But the ramifications of a thin Amazon client are intriguing.
Update: Some say that Silk is a hybrid browser: it can function either as a proxy browser or as a full browser. Now this could be true. In fact, it was what I originally thought, but I changed my mind after watching the Amazon video, which basically talks only about proxy aspects.
If Silk is indeed a hybrid browser Amazon is doing its best to confuse the world.
And if Amazon ever wants to expand its browser (and thus its content) to other platforms, a proxy browser is what they need. It’s much easier to write a thin proxy client for dozens of platforms that a hybrid browser that also contains a rendering engine.
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Mobile Frameworks Comparison Chart
Looking for the right mobile Framework? Compare all major Frameworks and choose the one that fits best.
check out Mobile Frameworks Comparison Chart.
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A Roundup of Valuable Facebook Tools
Even with Google+ on the virtual horizon, Facebook remains a major social media platform that many users never foresee leaving. So for designers and developers compiling tools for making the most of Facebook will never go out of style.
check out this Roundup of Valuable Facebook Tools.
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Why Does Interaction Design Matter? Lets Look At The Evolving Subway Experience | Co. Design
Why Does Interaction Design Matter? Lets Look At The Evolving Subway Experience | Co. Design.
EXCELLENT ARTICLE about interaction design!
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Need the full path to a file on a Mac? Here’s how:
1. Find the file you want the path for.
2. Press command-option-space to bring up the spotlight search window.
3. Drag the file you want the path for into the search field in the upper right of the spotlight window.
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And in case you didn’t know, command-shift-G brings up a window where you can paste that path to go directly to that folder.
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doesn’t seem to work on the latest release of the MAC OS.
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http://www.drawastickman.com/
This fun little adventure uses the Raphael Javascript library – Raphael is a vector graphics library, done using SVG (not bitmap like HTML5 canvas) -
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http://www.mobilemarketer.com/cms/news/database-crm/11000.html interesting article, Pepsi choosing pictures using SMS over QR
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Netflixs Qwikster Problem: Twitter Account Controlled by Weed-Smoking Elmo
Netflixs Qwikster Problem: Twitter Account Controlled by Weed-Smoking Elmo.
Netflix’s abrupt change in strategy includes a new name for the company’s DVD-by-mail service — Qwikster. And unsurprisingly Qwikster.com already has a placeholder saying the new service is launching soon.
However, @Qwikster on Twitter was already taken by oneJason Castillo, whose tweets are probably very far from what Netflix’s PR department envisioned for its Twitter promotion.
FAIL!
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Why You Shouldn’t Send Your Traffic to Facebook | Social Media Today. Interesting philosophy.
Seasoned Digital Strategists (folks who have been in the online space for a long time, not just social) realize the value of having traffic come to the site as opposed to sending it out there. In a business environment, we spend millions in creating and developing custom web experiences that resonate with our audience — and then we send them off to our Facebook page. Why?
mlux are discussing. 
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