The Huffington Post has finally launched their UK edition and I think it is going to be big. Here in the UK there are very few independent news sources, so expect the Huffington Post to be the main player in this market.
On the US version of the Huffington Post they already receive over 1.2 million visitors each month from the UK. They have launched with only 300 bloggers is their system and this is far short of the 10,000 writing on the USA version. However, Im sure this will quickly increase.
As well as the UK expansion the Huffington Post is planning on entering a lot of other European markets in their native languages, so expect to see the Huffington Post all over the place!
Microsoft has just released the official Angry Birds theme for Windows 7. The Angry Birds theme has 5 high quality wallpapers and even some cool notification sounds.
Overall, the theme is matched perfectly to the game.
Paper.js is a great free open source vector graphics scripting framework. Paper.js has a lot of great features including nested layers, groups, paths and more (its not just awrapper for the canvas).
All of the items are drawn autmatically so you can focus on styling and modification.
Google has just launched their new social network project that is aiming to compete head on with Facebook. Google+ has all the features you expect from a social network, but with a few added features.
Sprite Cow is a great new open source CSS sprite generator. Sprite Cow amazing automatically recognises different elements within single images. Sprite Cow allows you to simply upload your sprite image and it works out the exact CSS rules.
The application can select items in any size and also gives you the option of changing the background color.
Bit.ly has decided to make their Pro features available for all users. Bitly Pro served over 10K shortened domains, including the Dalai Lama’s Dalaila.ma.
Call you need to do is just head over to Bit.ly and login. All features are there and ready to be used straight away.
A few months ago Orman Clark released a very sexy music player interface with download options. Now, it has been coded into a cool HTML5 Music Player in jQuery for us. The user interface is very clean and easy to use. You can also check out other HTML5 Music and Audio Solutions for jQuery we have mentioned before.
It is now official, Tumblr has more blogs on their service than WordPress.com.
Tumblr has only been around for 4 years and considering that WordPress.com has been running for 8 years its a remarkable feet for the blogging platform.
Initializr is a simple and easy way to generate new HTML5 templates for your upcoming HTML5 projects. Initializr is built upon HTML5 Boilerplate, a powerful HTML5 template created.
Some of the functionality has been removed from Boilerplate, but this provides a greater focus on producing amazing templates for HTML5.
ScaleNine is a great new service that showcases free themes for Adobe Air and Flex applications. Currently there are 80+ themes on ScaleNine and the majority seem to be very high quality.
If your looking for some inspiration or design help for your Adobe Air application, then I would check our ScaleNine.
