The Daily Report
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.net Magazine’s Top 25 Web Design Books
CONGRATULATIONS TO A List Apart technical editors Aaron Gustafson and Ethan Marcotte, whose Adaptive Web Design and Responsive Web Design were ranked #1 and #2 in .net Magazine’s “Top 25 Books for Web Designers and…
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5th annual Blue Beanie Day is November 30, 2011
New! Official Blue Beanie Day 2011 page, with banners and instructions.
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HTML5 dumps TIME element
“It’s with great sadness that I inform you that the HTML5 <time> element has been dropped, and replaced by a more generic – and thus less useful – <data> element. The pubdate attribute has been…
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Shutting off Compass Calibration in Location Services can stop iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S on iOS5 from sucking battery life and running hot.
I have an iPhone 4 and fwiw, mine was losing 10% per 2 hours and running warm as soon as I upgraded to iOS 5. In my case the culprit was quite easy to track-down.…
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New MobiUs Browser For iOS Makes Mobile Web Apps Act More Like Native Apps
“Mobile development firm appMobi is launching a new HTML5-powered browser for iOS on Monday which will bring additional capabilities typically found only in native apps to the mobile Web. The MobiUs Web App Browser, as it’s being…
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That’s love.
FOR TWO YEARS, our daughter was bullied in school. The school didn’t notice and our daughter didn’t complain so we didn’t know. Finally a mom saw and told us. After that, things happened quickly. One…
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On An Event Apart DC 2011
Jeffrey Zeldman – An Event Apart: Content First (lukew.com) – Luke Wroblewski Jeremy Keith – An Event Apart: Design Principles (lukew.com) – Luke Wroblewski Andy Budd – An Event Apart: Persuasive Design (lukew.com) – Luke Wroblewski Ethan Marcotte…
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An Event Apart DC
View “An Event Apart DC 2011” on Storify
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A Book Apart: Designing for Emotion & Mobile First
WE ARE THRILLED to present the two newest volumes from A Book Apart (“brief books for people who make websites”): Make your users fall in love with your site or application via the precepts packed…
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ALA: Personality in Design
IN AN EXCLUSIVE EXCERPT from his new book, Designing For Emotion, Aarron Walter shows how to turn design interactions into conversations, imbue mechanical “interactions” with human elements, and use design and language techniques to craft…
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A List Apart: Organizing Mobile by Luke Wroblewski
THE ORGANIZATION OF MOBILE web experiences must align with how people use their mobile devices and why; emphasize content over navigation; provide relevant options for exploration and pivoting; maintain clarity and focus; and align with…
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Meet the 10K Apart Winners
ANNOUNCING THE WINNERS of the second annual 10K Apart contest (“Inspire the web with just 10K”) presented by MIX Online and An Event Apart. Responsive apps under 10K Last year’s 10K Apart challenged readers to…
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Help Amit defeat leukemia.
ON THURSDAY, AMIT GUPTA, the kind-hearted and extremely talented creator of Photojojo and the Jelly co-working community, announced that he has leukemia and needs South Asian bone marrow to survive. Finding it will be tough,…
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In which I unwittingly befoul an otherwise fitting tribute to the late, great Mr Jobs
“SHARE YOUR MEMORIES of Steve Jobs” read the email from Faith Korpi, producer of the 5by5 network to which I contribute a podcast. I thought she meant memories of actually interacting with the guy. I…
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Facebook: the real semantic web?
Longtime tech pundit and thinker Esther Dyson posted on Twitter today that Facebook was launching the “semantic Web” without calling it that. Good, because hardly anyone ever understood what that meant. But Zuckerberg in effect…