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iPhone reaching tops on Flickr

August 18th, 2009, No Comments

Flickr

It’s safe to assume, that Flickr is a service that might serve as a source of statistics of most popular cameras out there. In spite of photographers and social web freaks being a huge part of its community, regular people upload their pics too. That’s why iPhone camera rocking statistics might be a surprise.

Almost always Canon’s EOS 400D was the most popular device – cool DSLR that provides unbelievable effects. Then what made iPhone so popular? Why is it reaching out for the first place?

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HTML5 Canvas and Audio experiment

August 5th, 2009, No Comments

HTML5 experiment

Time for us to play with this technology. We’ve created a litttle experiment which loads 100 tweets related to HTML5 and displays them using a javascript-based particle engine. Each particle represents a tweet – click on one of them and it’ll appear on the screen.

Beautifully created. Seriously, what remains are there still for Flash? We got native video tag, audio tag and now also awesome animations thanks to canvas magic combined with JS. You might see the effect above, and it’s mindblowing.

BURN IN HELL, FLASH. You’ve been an evil technology, now get the hell out of our lives. And sorry, but you won’t be missed.

Twitter homepage – redesigned!

July 29th, 2009, No Comments

Twitter

One would think, that Twitter crew while busy inviting more and more celebrities over won’t bother itself with improving user interface. Couldn’t be more wrong.

I was always thinking of Twitter as example of perfectly executed UI job. Minimalistic, yet full of details, gathering user attention where it’s needed, coded as it should be… That brings Apple to mind, doesn’t it? I wish more companies would design stuff like they do.

Changes, earlier pretty rare at Twitter, now, after join of Doug Bowman as a Creative Director and few other guys, are common thing. Few pages, like list of people you follow, just needed redesign as fast as possible. So did homepage.

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