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Meet the 10K Apart Winners0
by Nishant Kothary on Oct 13, 2011 in News
Two months ago, we announced the second 10K Apart contest — The Responsive Edition — in partnership with our friends at An Event Apart. Today, after much deliberating, we are proud to announce the very deserving, incredibly inspiring, and mind-numbingly clever winners. Check them out on the 10K site. To give you a little background, Read More…
10K Apart: The Responsive Edition9
by Nishant Kothary on Aug 2, 2011 in News
Last year, in partnership with An Event Apart, we debuted the 10K Apart Contest. The challenge was simple: build the best application you can with no more than 10K of code. If our analytics are telling the truth, the 10K was a smash hit. The contest reaped 367 entries in less than a month. And Read More…
Down With O.P.C.3
by Karsten Januszewski on Jul 22, 2011 in Development
For the past few years, I have had the luxury of working on projects which I own the development entirely, from end to end. My work on Mix Online (Oomph, Glimmer, Archivist Web, Archivist Desktop, Flotzam, and Incarnate) has been architected and written by me, in collaboration with a designer but with no other developers. Read More…
Content Strategy in the Fortune 50010
by Nicole Jones on Jul 6, 2011
Your corporate site has everything. Product details. Media info. Legal terms. Calls to action. Friendly support. People flock there every day. It’s the perfect feeding ground. Duh dun duh dun duh dun. Read More…
That’s How Our Love Must Be, IE68
by Nishant Kothary on Jun 23, 2011 in Web Culture
I've been thinking about this for some time, and it's time we talk, IE6. Read More…
The Future of Infographics15
by Sarah Slobin on Jun 15, 2011 in Design
Have you noticed that infographics are everywhere? You can't swing a diagram of a cat without hitting an infographic about making an infographic. As someone who loves data viz to death (I do it for a living) I've been stewing about the meaning of this trend. A lot. Read More…
Rap it in a Grid12
by Nishant Kothary on May 25, 2011
I am currently reading Decoded by Jay-Z. This passage stopped me dead in my tracks last night (it’s a little long, but worth it): It’s been said that the thing that makes rap special, that makes it different both from pop music and from written poetry, is that it’s built around two kinds of rhythm. Read More…
The Rise Of JSON37
by Karsten Januszewski on May 17, 2011
I’ve been prototyping a new service, sketching out the different pieces: payload protocol, storage, data model, transport, client/server communication, etc. And, upon completion of the prototype, I stepped back and looked at the decisions made. For example, how are we storing the data? Raw JSON. How are we serving data? As JSON. It suddenly struck Read More…
Using HTML 5 Rich Media Tags7
by Matthew David on May 12, 2011 in Development
Today, people will watch more than 2 billion movies on the Internet. That’s right, two billion. Video is a big deal. Fortunately, HTML5 will make it easier for you to add video when you use a new HTML element called VIDEO. The new video element is similar to the IMG element for images—it sits within Read More…
Introducing MIX Online 2.618033991
by Nishant Kothary on May 2, 2011 in News
Just over a year ago, we released a major update to MIX Online dubbed 2.0. Today, we are releasing another update, albeit smaller — MIX Online 2.61803399. Yes, you read that right. Read More…