Google’s Paul Adams 216 slides conclude
Adams’s forthcoming book Social Circles is out in August 2010
Some impressive stuff, but ultimately I’d be more impressed if he waved his hands over it to jailbreak it and run Flash
Unlikely rap stars crop up in strange places
Last e-mag post?
Following up two previous emag posts, this one is a gem, if only for: “In some cases as the reader scrolls into an article, the background becomes obfusticated This was quite a big feature of the Mag+ vision” Nuff said :)
However, on the verge of the UK iPad release this is a perfectly timed release for the iPad.
Another magazine-meets-tablet mockup
This is a more evocative example than the previous post.
This is rather corporate, note how reference is made to advertising opportunities in the new format.
See also Wired Comes to the iPad, Version 2.0
Following hot on the heels of our rap / hip hop post exhorting good design and coding for web sites via The Poetic Prophet’s rap, there is a different kind of hip hop out there on the web; as announced today by Facebook. HipHop is an open source code transformer that transforms PHP into C++ from PHP. HipHop forms part of Facebook’s increasing involvement with open source.
From the announcement:
HipHop for PHP isn’t technically a compiler itself. Rather it is a source code transformer. HipHop programmatically transforms your PHP source code into highly optimized C++ and then uses g++ to compile it. HipHop executes the source code in a semantically equivalent manner and sacrifices some rarely used features — such as eval() — in exchange for improved performance. HipHop includes a code transformer, a reimplementation of PHP’s runtime system, and a rewrite of many common PHP Extensions to take advantage of these performance optimizations.
Facebook is delivering 90% of its Web traffic using HipHop transformed code (note that statement is not the same as 90% of Facebook is written in PHP and transformed using HipHop). This has reduced the load on Facebook’s servers by some 50%, and provided additional speed to the load of serving personalised pages to Facebook’s users.
Interesting, since the social software substrate in the Manchester PLE is currently implemented in PHP.
