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Jun 26 / 6:19pm

HTML5...WTF? Infographic.

by Jen Corbett
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I'm not that technical but I do understan this makes for a huge revolution in the way we experience online content. It's being touted as a game-changer for the future of the interactive web.

That, of course, is controversial for a dozen reasons. Which I won't go into, because that's what this infographic more or less shows.

From a creative perspective, the possibilities this makes for the easy realisation of dynamic, powerful and engaging interactive concepts are truly exciting.

It's  alsoa huge threat to Adobe. And there's a lot of debate about this online, so it's another thing I won't go into. 'Cos again, I don't know much about the technicalities of that. Other than this  changes everything.

If you are interested in looking into the cool things these features enable web designers to do I really recommend you check out Apple's HTML5 gallery.

http://www.apple.com/html5/ (yes, you have to view it on Safari)

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Jun 23 / 3:05pm

World Cup instant twitter replay

by Jen Corbett

The Guardian have produced a fantastic interactive data visualisation that allows you to replay the way twitter traffic reacted to a game as a game played out.  It shows just how spot on they are when it comes to keeping up to the play with news and trends as they occur on the real-time web.

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It also shows just how a major international event can impact the web in ways that New Organisations are only just trying to figure out how to grasp hold of and maximised for their news production.

In a further article that explains a bit more about why and how they did it they say:

The project kicked off a few months ago with a simple but challenging brief: "Can we make a distinct and engaging representation of Twitter activity during the World Cup?"

The last few years have seen some fantastic Twitter visualisations using all sorts of approaches. Standing out would be difficult. That said, whilst many of these are great fun, only a few convey a sense of context or capture the spirit of popular occasions.

 

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The above is the world cup trendsmap, which is another spectacular visualisation

Trends related interactive graphics are only in their infancy, and I think it will be pretty interesting to see how they will develop in years to come.

 

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