No, that’s not the latest Wii accessory but a reference to the apparent requirement for every man and his dog to predict the big technology issues for 2009. I don’t think anyone ever comes back to these things and says, “Hey, you were miles off!”, but if you miraculously haven’t come across such articles earlier then have a read about robotics and business in Silicon Valley, the big steps in gaming, more robotics and music players.
Instead of predicting what might be big in ‘09, Wired magazine looks back at ‘08 and offers an excellent summary of the top 6 technologies to get into if you haven’t already.
Last week saw around 1500 job losses in the Yahoo offices. Valleywag investigates what this could mean for the future of favoured photo-community Flickr.
Forget Smartphones. The Pomegranate has to be the first Geniusphone. Someone should have told them that they only have to include everything but the kitchen sink.
This simple CSS Shorthand Guide produced by Dustin Diaz is an invaluable resource and makes for good practice in streamlining your CSS code.
As over half of the UK are now web users, the growth of new internet users is naturally slowing. However, as predicted for the past couple of years, mobile internet usage is now beginning to significantly increase. 25% more people accessed the internet using their mobile between April - Sept 2008. The increase can probably be accredited to improved handset capabilities across mainstream devices, higher awareness of mobile services, an increase in quality and breadth of ‘immediate’ information services and a growing focus on mobile from the key social networks such as Facebook and Bebo, along with simpler, inclusive data tariffs from the operators.
MooTools is our preferred JavaScript effects/extension library, not least because of it’s easy extensibility - as demonstrated by a wealth of 3rd party extension scripts that are available. We haven’t used all these but this round-up is a handy starter.
BBC One and BBC Two are now available to watch live [as Three and Four have been for a while]. Not all programmes are broadcast [e.g. films, some sport, etc] but most are now available to watch as they’re broadcast live.
Apple have implemented one of the best known gesture based interaction models on their laptops and iPhone/iPod Touch, but Oblong industries, inc. have gone way beyond this as they try to bring to reality a Minority Report style interface.
Intersquash.com offers a straightforward way of translating your website content into an iPhone optimised webpage. The resulting page offers little more than a generic iPhone skinned version of a site’s RSS feed, but it appears to be a quick and easy way of optimising any content for the iPhone that’s already available via RSS.
A recent report by internet research company ComScore examines how UK internet users are accessing the internet across both web and mobile.
