HTML5 is the next major revision of HTML, the main language used to create web pages, is currently being developed to add new features and reduce the need for proprietary plug-ins (like Flash). Here’s an overview of what you can expect to be able to do inside your browser in the near future. Click on the image for a large view.
iPad Peek is a nifty tool that lets you see how any website will be rendered on the iPad. Click on the top border to switch from landscape to portrait mode; the virtual keyboard and the buttons on the iPad browser are just for show, but the reload button on the iPad browser works.
iPad Peek: See How Your Website Looks on the iPad via Mashable
Waiting on the NFL playoff games to start and need to kill a little time? Here are the articles I’m reading this weekend.
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What are you reading this weekend? Let me know in the comments below.
Facebook let it all hang out to a select group of members to test their new search interface. The system would allow members to search their news feed for recent updates, photos, links, videos and notes being shared on friends’ profiles and fan Pages. Users who have made their profile and content available to anyone will also be searchable.
SEOMoz yammers it up during Whiteboard Friday to talk about visualization. I think visualization is one of those new and sexy fields that you’ll hear more and more about in the near future.
SEOmoz Whiteboard Friday – Visualization from Scott Willoughby on Vimeo.
12seconds is updating their iPhone app to take advantage of the new OS 3.0. The app, which should be available soon, will allow you to send short video messages directly to your friends via twitter.
Back ‘dat thing up and pick up some great tips about landing page design through CopyBlogger’s Landing Page Makeover. Their most recent tutorial covers CarsHelpingAmerica.org.
If you’re a fan of Indie Rock, I highly recommend The Veils – Sun Gangs. Rock out this weekend.
Here are the interesting posts at the top of my reading list this week.
The fine folks at the Red Cross are working diligently on crafting a Social Media Policy Handbook. They’ve got a great start and are light years ahead of even most for-profit businesses. As it should, its available online for your viewing pleasure.
Staying with the non-profit side of things, NPR has a great feature of The Extraordinaries. Its a micro volunteering iPhone app that allows people to give small blocks of time (< 5 min) and knowledge to a non-profit. Some of the first tasks available are tagging images for the Brooklyn Museum building a map of childhood playgrounds. It’s a beautiful concept.
SEOMoz updated their SEO Best Practices to account for new industry data. They clear the air and a lot of confusion in regards to new search engine optimization standards. The synopsis is H1 tags are not all that necessary anymore, stop trying to sculpt PageRank with nofollow, use footer links, java and flash sparingly, traffic to a site doesn’t determine its ranking and quite a bit more.
Smashing Magazine compiled a great list of web design checklists and resources that will help improve your writing skills.
Rumor has it that Google is experimenting with product ads that would would work very similar to AdWords, but display an image ad along the right hand side of the SERP when the user searches on a particular term. These ads would run on a pay-per-action basis rather than a pay-per-click (PPC) basis.
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