Signposts for the Week Ending March 7, 2008
by Adaptive PathMark Vanderbeeken of the inestimable Putting People First blog conducted a lively and engaging interview with Bruce Sterling about his experience in Turin and programming the SHARE festival. (Does Sterling’s involvement in SHARE mean he’s abandoned SXSW Interactive?)
We’ve signed up as an iPhone developer (it’s free!) to get access to the latest iPhone Human Interface Guidelines. Interesting stuff.
Read about the development of the Wii Balance Board.
Learn about Twitter in Plain English. Cut-outs are fun!
Our Glorious Mobile Future, as told to the BBC by folks at Nokia. (Hey, Raphael!)
The folks at The New York Times actually appreciate the avatar on Alaska Airlines’ site. Ms. Boo 2.0?
The politics wonks in our office are fiddling with CNN’s Delegate Counter.
View all the presentations from Customer Service is the New Marketing Summit.
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March 8th, 2008 at 5:47 pm
One thing I haven’t seen anyone point out yet: the iPhone SDK release also includes some really amazing updates for iPhone web development, too. Including support for gestures in Javascript. That means being able to do rotate, pinch, etc. in web apps, which is really exciting. Also stuff like true full screen mode, and some nifty new CSS properties (like animation and rotation).
The cool thing about this is it means you’ll be able to prototype stuff as web apps that have a lot of the feel of real iPhone apps.