David Emery OnlineApple releases iAd Producer: Mac app to create iAds
iAd Producer makes it easy for you to design and assemble high-impact, interactive content for iAd. iAd Producer automatically manages the HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript behind your iAd to make creating beautiful, motion-rich iAd content as easy as point and click. For advanced developers, iAd Producer offers sophisticated JavaScript editing and debugging, along with a powerful extension mechanism that enables them to create and re-use their own page templates and components.
Go on Apple, just cut to the chase and release a killer HTML5/CSS3 IDE. Between this, Dashcode, the Webkit inspector and Xcode they’ve basically got all the bits already, they just need to glue it together.
Visit ➔Isle Of Tune Lets You Compose Music By Um, City Planning
Isle of Tune lets you create whole songs by building a little town using objects like streetlamps, houses and trees to make sounds. There is even a collection of pre-built loops for those of us less musically inclined.
Loving this, especially considering that the iPad version of SimCity has kickstarted that particular addition again… (p.s. if you haven’t got it yet, get it – it’s a steal for 59p).
Visit ➔Archive Fever
What were you thinking about on November 23rd, 2009? You probably have no idea, but Twitter might. What was your personal soundtrack to the summer of ’07? Ask Last.fm. Hit up Dopplr to find out how many miles you travelled last year, Foursquare for the Berlin bar that people you know check in to more than any other, or Facebook to see the photos of the last time you hung out with your best friend on the other side of the world.
Without deliberate planning, we have created amazing new tools for remembering. The real-time web might just be the most elaborate and widely-adopted architecture for self-archival ever created.
I’ve wanted something like this for ages – in fact, almost every time I come to redesigning this site my first thoughts are around the idea of making it timeline-based, across all the different medium I spew content out on, so you could scroll around and see what I tweeted, took photos of and blogged about in June 2009 (for example).
Sadly time has always got in the way…
Visit ➔London tuition fee protest
Yesterday, in central London, thousands of students and others gathered to protest as Britain's Parliament met to vote on a proposal to raise university tuition fees significantly - nearly tripling them - as part of a continuing set of austerity programs. During the protest, several clashes took place between police and protesters, resulting in numerous injuries and 43 arrests. Late in the demonstration, a group of protesters attacked the car of Prince Charles and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall as the couple were inside, being driven to the London Palladium. The car was slightly damaged, the royal couple unharmed, though a bit shaken by the incident. Parliament did end up narrowly approving the measure, and the fee increases are set to take effect in 2012. Collected here are images from London last night.
Amazing set of photos from yesterday. Interesting times that we live in…
WebKit Clock
This site is driven with HTML5 canvas, CSS3, JavaScript, Web Fonts, SVG and NO image files. It's optimized to WebKit rendering engine and you can see it with Safari and Google Chrome.
Very impressive. I really need to get a handle on all of this Canvas stuff…
Visit ➔Spotify CEO: Music on the Web Will Be More Popular Than Photos
Speaking at All Things Digital’s D: Dive Into Mobile conference on Tuesday in San Francisco, Ek said that he thinks “music on the web will probably surpass the popularity of photos.”
Interesting that he says that for two reasons:
1) Arguably it is already.
2) Spotify isn’t on the web; it’s a internet connected client application. I’d love them to be a web app, with embedable tracks á la YouTube, but I don’t see it happening any time soon.
Visit ➔Lawyers warn about Facebook’s terms and conditions
One of the recent changes they made is that you cannot incentivize users to take any action on Facebook. For instance, you can’t say, 'Become a friend and we’ll give you something for free.'
Interesting, especially considering the increasing power and relevance that Facebook has in online marketing. It almost goes without saying, but it’s a huge driver of traffic to music related sites; people used to talk about getting on Digg, Slashdot or other big community sites to drive massive traffic; now with Facebook Pages there’s these kind of communities for every artist and niche.
Visit ➔Around the world with the xx - Britain's hottest band
In the wake of their Mercury-winning debut album, the xx embarked on a year-long global tour. Here, photographer Jamie-James Medina captures the trio's most intimate moments from Japan to the southern states of America
Beautiful set of photos from The xx’s recent tour:
Ben the Bodyguard
Protecting your passwords, photos, contacts and other sensitive stuff on your iPhone® or iPod touch®
Very nifty site design – scroll down for cleverness.
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