Archive for the ‘Online Tools’ Category


All I want for Christmas: An IDE for HTML5

Comments Off// Posted in Online Tools, Web 2.0, Web services by on 05.07.10.

At the Web 2.0 Expo, I had an opportunity to check out a few sessions on the cool new features of HTML5. Let me just say this: HTML5 is going to change everything. The Web will become amazingly beautiful in a few years, all because of this new standard. But, more on that in a [...]


Sprout is Flash for everyone else

1 Comment// Posted in Online Tools, Web services by on 05.19.08.

Okay, I feel like I have been waiting a very long time for this. And now it finally has happened. Someone has built a completely Web-based Flash application over at http://sproutbuilder.com. This is a momentous occasion for me. I feel like over the last two years, I have been wishing for this very thing to [...]


NY Times has got the right idea

Comments Off// Posted in mobile, Online Tools by on 02.26.08.

The New York Times Research and Development Lab have come out with a really cool idea for getting the newspaper right on your mobile phone. They developed a product using hacked Radio Frequency Identification chips (RFID) whereby you can transfer data to your cell phone seamlessly. The idea, once it’s fully developed, would work like [...]


Vuvox is the next big thing?

Comments Off// Posted in Online Tools, Web services by on 11.01.07.

The folks over at Vuvox (pronounced View-vox) will be coming to UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism on Wedensday, November 7 at 1:00 p.m. for a demonstration of their new product. So what is Vuvox? Well, it’s a very creative slide show editor. At least that’s the best way I can describe it. It’s smooth, [...]