HTML5 not as good as native for Mobile

Mark Zuckerberg has released statements stating that they had to rebuild their app in native for iOS and now they are redeveloping their android app to be native due to the massive overheads HTML5 was causing in their app. There are also reports that apple are restricting some javascript speed/functionality due to 'security concerns' which sounds quite bogus. This is a move to keep native apps as the priority method of delivering both products to customers and profits to apple.

Augmented Reality

A very cool short film showing an interesting view on the future of augmented reality.

Gus Fring - Barack Obama

Gustavo Fring looks like President Barack Obama.

iPhone sales revenue

Stats on iphone sales are pretty staggering. Check out this infographic lifted from Mashable for the amounts which rival the total revenue of some of world's largest companies.

The Google Panda Update - What is Panda?

An infographic originally posted on www.searchengineland.com outlining the history of google's panda SEO filter.

Adobe Roadmap for Flash 2012

Adobe has released a roadmap for Flash runtimes for 2012. This should calm the naysayers and hopefully people will be a bit more educated on this topic - instead of the usual "Flash is dead" mantra :-)

The basic premise of this is that Adobe are going to focus the future development of Flash on games (web and mobile) and video. They are offering increased hardware acceleration in Flash Player 11.2. A big focus for them is Air development for iOS and Android.

They are also going to be updating Actionscript 3 - this will be called Actionscript "Next" - this will be a smaller change than the change from AS2 to AS3. Let's see what they can offer in this regard.

https://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashplatform/whitepapers/roadmap.html

video links

banking vid

cashin vid

SEO beginners guide

This resource is an invaluable guide to getting started in the world of SEO.

http://www.seomoz.org/beginners-guide-to-seo

Will HTML5 replace Native apps

This article originally posted in the Guardian very intersting article on the future on native apps - a little bit of history and an interesting perspective for the future where the technical merits of a particular technology are superceded by the business decisions of corporations and their audiences.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2011/nov/03/will-html5-replace-native-apps

HTML5 site

This is pretty cool HTML5 site.

http://html5.labs.ap.org/

Feel free to post any other cool HTML5 sites in the comments.

heatmap tracking

Just heard about this cool click/scroll tracking analytics solution. It's called crazyegg.

Check it out.

They offer a 30 day free trial which I will be trying out very soon after I finish all this SEO study that is going at the moment.

The image below shows their 'confetti' product which also colour codes clicks to their referring source.

iPhone app development with Flash CS5.5

In this post I am going to post links to resources on how to develop iPhone apps using cs5.5 - I have a couple of apps planned and will also post on how they are going.

http://urbanemedia.co/2012/02/easy-iphone-and-ipad-app-creation-with-flash-cs-5-5.html

The Thank You Economy

I am currently reading 'The Thank You Economy' by Gary Vaynerchuk.

This book is a refreshing perspective on the role of social media in today's economy. Written in an easy to read, conversational tone Gary manages to cover how and why social media is such a powerful tool for any business and with his examples and experience manages to put into perspective not only the massive gains social media delivers for business but the detriment business puts itself up against if they refuse to acknowledge the inevitable.

5 stars.

www.thankyoueconomybook.com/


I heard about this book from the guys at www.livingoutrageously.com. Check them out.

Note: There is also an audiobook available at www.audible.com

Adidas France - 3D Mapping Projection

I have been following 3D Mapping Projection technology the last couple of years and this video by Adidas, looks to be the most compelling so far. Check it out.

Adidas France - 3D Mapping Projection from The Cool Hunter on Vimeo.

Corporations blocking social media

An interesting phenomenon is the blocking of social media sites by employers. In certain industries i can see why this would be a good strategic move, e.g call centres where the micro-management of staff by supervisors is one of the ways to increase productivity and allowing unskilled workers access to another distraction would increase the workload of these managers.

However in other office jobs I think that applying company wide rules in regards to social media is a more mature and respectful way to deal with employees. In much the same way that companies in the past tried to limit employees interactions with the internet - companies need to contemporise and adapt to these new technologies in a mature manner.

In a recent study many Gen Y employees stated they would leave a workplace if they were denied access to social media sites at work.

The sites I am thinking of are Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.

PROTECT IP / SOPA Breaks The Internet

Here is a video that outlines the USA's Protect IP/ Sopa laws that look to have a major negative impact on the way the internet is governed worldwide.

PROTECT IP / SOPA Breaks The Internet from Fight for the Future on Vimeo.

Create Gradient text in Flash (cs5)

I need to create gradient filled text on a regular basis in Flash - here is a way to create this in the Flash IDE without the need for any Actionscript.

*Create 2 layers

*One called "gradient" and above this one called "text mask"

*On the "text mask" layer create your text and in the "gradient" create a rectangle covering the text area and fill it with the gradient you would like to use.

*Right Click on the "text mask" layer and select "Mask" from the drop down menu

Your gradient is now masked by the text, your layers will now look like this:

and your text will look like this.

Note: I have changed the Background colour to grey for this demo

Cut the Rope - HTML5

This is the best execution of HTML 5 use for the web I have seen. It looks to be funded by Microsoft to try and show off capabilities and also soup up developer interest as the Windows 8 app store goes online in February.
Interestingly the .ie domain is for Ireland - cheeky.

http://www.cuttherope.ie/

and the dev center
http://www.cuttherope.ie/dev