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01 Nov Skies Painted with Unnumbered Sparks: the Art of Janet Echelman Powered by Google and Autodesk

Posted at 14:02h in CSS, Design, Engineering, In The News, Inspiration, Out and About, Software Tools by Robert Amerman

Since her 2011 TED talk and her inspirational follow-up for TED2014, artist Janet Echelman has been getting a lot of well-deserved press accolades. We'll let TED set the stage with their blog post covering Janet's work before we have a thing or two to say...

11 Mar Augmented Reality for Sales, Communication and E-Commerce

Posted at 16:39h in In The News, Inspiration, Marketing by Teresa Maslonka

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEstFtQbzow&w=560&h=315] Whether you sell high tech products, fashion, or artwork, Augment will help to boost your sales conversion rate. How you ask? Augment is an iOS and Android application, which uses augmented reality to let you visualize how products will look in your home...

24 Jul Nextdoor, the Social Network for Neighbors

Posted at 10:23h in Community & Networking, In The News, Inspiration, Out and About, Social Media, Web Development by Kurt Garrison

Love the idea of bringing communities together! Nextdoor is the easiest way for you and your neighbors to bring back a sense of community to your neighborhood. Meet the neighbors. Finally, call that nice lady down the street by her first name. And know whom to call when her dog...

26 Mar Condé Nast Aims To Unify Tablet And Mobile Magazine Production

Posted at 10:43h in In The News, Marketspace, Mobile / Apps, Process by Kurt Garrison

Wired and GQ magazine publisher Condé Nast is amongst those now seeking a cost-effective cross-platform tablet production workflow for the blossoming number of new devices, after earlier implementing an iPad-specific strategy. http://paidcontent.co.uk/article/419-conde-nast-aims-to-unify-tablet-and-mobile-magazine-production/ This article screams of responsive web design, they even picked up on that in the...

06 Jan IE6 usage in the US has now officially dropped below 1%

Posted at 10:49h in Biz, In The News, Industry News, Marketspace, Web Development by Kurt Garrison

Coming straight from the windows team blog. Also check out ie6countdown.com with some worldwide statistics. ...

15 Dec Happy Holidays: IE to Start Automatic Upgrades across Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7

Posted at 13:04h in In The News, Industry News, Platforms, Web Development by Kurt Garrison

The moment we've all been waiting for! Today we are sharing our plan to automatically upgrade Windows customers to the latest version of Internet Explorer available for their PC. This is an important step in helping to move the Web forward. We will start in January...

07 Dec Stickers As Sensors?

Posted at 11:11h in Biz, In The News, Inspiration, Marketspace, Out and About, Product Development by Kurt Garrison

Rather than ask people to integrate bulky or intrusive sensors into their lives, GreenGoose's upcoming system (pre-orders start on Dec. 15; systems ship on Jan. 1) will instead provide small stickers with built-in Internet-connected sensors. Tip a water bottle and the attached GreenGoose sticker logs...

26 Oct Newsstand app brings Condé Nast 268% boom

Posted at 09:05h in Biz, In The News, Industry News, Marketspace, Platforms, Web Development by Teresa Maslonka

Newsstand app brings Condé Nast 268% boom in subscription sales on iPad Magazine publisher Condé Nast announced on Tuesday that weekly digital subscription sales of its titles jumped up 268 percent following the arrival of Newsstand and iOS 5 on the iPad earlier this month. Read more...

15 Sep Touch-version of IE 10 for Windows 8 to drop plugin support

Posted at 09:40h in Biz, Flash, HTML5, In The News, Industry News, Marketspace, Mobile / Apps, Web Development by Kurt Garrison

This post is about a big change in Metro style IE, which is the plug-in free experience. In Windows 8, IE 10 is available as a Metro style app and as a desktop app. The desktop app continues to fully support all plug-ins and extensions. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2011/09/14/metro-style-browsing-and-plug-in-free-html5.aspx...

20 Jun .awesome Anyone?

Posted at 16:55h in Biz, In The News, Industry News, Marketspace, Web Development by Teresa Maslonka

An article on what looks like "open season" for domain name suffix's (with some caveat's, of course!). Gone are the days of only .com, .org, .net, etc. Enjoy! http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticle&art_aid=152685...