HTML5 in the wild by Paul Rouget presents actual web pages using HTML5, CSS3 JavaScript & Co.
AeroFS is file sync without servers. Nico Kaiser wrote about how it works and what is good and bad about this new service, especially compared to Dropbox.
Leaflet is a lightweight open-source JavaScript library for interactive maps by CloudMade. (Via CloudMade blog)
Some good debates about hgroup on HTML5 Doctor. (Via Twitter / Bruce Lawson)
When (Some) Important Internetty Stuff Was Launched/Funded is an timeline of internet companies and services of the last 20 years.
lovely ui is a collection of mobile UI elements, mobile patterns and more by Diana Frurip.
jCanvas is a jQuery plugin that makes working with the HTML5 canvas easy. (Via Twitter / JavaScript UserGroup Munich)
Roger Johansson explains how to clip text with CSS3 text-overflow.
The word tweetup is accepted into Oxford Dictionary of English. (Via The Next Web UK)
YouTube launched the YouTube Charts. You can sort most viewed, most subscribed and most liked videos by today, this week, this month and all time. (Via YouTube Blog)
Google released a developer preview of the Chrome Web Store that will be launching later this year. (Via Chromium Blog)
Facebook launched their location-sharing feature Facebook Places. (Via The Facebook Blog)
The newest version of Picasa has some new features like Face Movies, Picnik integration, metadata updates and more. (Via Google Photos Blog)
PaintbrushJS is a lightweight browser-based image processing library by Dave Shea. Have a look at the demo page.
According to a rumour Google will launch a Chrome OS tablet on November 26 on Verizon. The device is being built by HTC. (Download Squad)
Elements is a text editor for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch that saves the text files automatically every 60 seconds to your Dropbox account. (Via Macworld)
Businessweek and AllThingsD BoomTown both think that Facebook will finally introduce location services in a few hours. But will it be a check-in service or will they integrate other third-party services? Or will Facebook announce something completely different? (BusinessWeek & AllThingsD BoomTown)
Mercedes-Benz Mixed Tape 34 Red Rhythm is available for download at Mercedes Benz TV.
Matt McKeon‘s infographic on The Evolution of Privacy on Facebook
is great visualisation of the article Facebook’s Eroding Privacy Policy: A Timeline
by the EFF.
Fluid, a software application for Mac that lets you create Site Specific Browsers, is entirely Open Source now and is avaiable on GitHub. (Via Fluid Blog)
Google‘s Steve Lee said at the Web 2.0 Expo that Google Latitude has three Million active users. At the same time Foursquare has more than one million users and MyTown two million users. (Via TechCrunch)
According to Advertising Age Facebook will roll out location-based features very soon and it will compete with other location-based services like Foursquare, Gowalla, Brightkite and Google Latitude. (Via Mashable)
There are rumours that gaming network Zynga is going to leave Facebook and start its own Zynga Live service. (Via The Next Web)
Social publishing and reading web site Scribd will abandon Flash and will convert uploaded documents to HTML5 web pages. (Via TechCrunch)
The new version of Google Goggles can now recognize and translate text and has improved barcode recognition. (Via Official Google Mobile Blog)
After introducing a new look for search on the computer Google announces similar changes to search for mobile. (Via Official Google Mobile Blog)
HTML5 For Web Designers by Jeremy Keith is out for pre-order from A Book Apart. HTML5 spec is 900 pages and hard to read. HTML5 for Web Designers is 85 pages and fun to read. Easy choice.
(Via Adactio, Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report, Jason Santa Maria)
Veer joins Typekit. Veer typefaces include Corner Store, Hooligan, Adage Script, Peachy Keen, Annabelle, Baroque Text, Bookman, Buena Park, Hellenic Wide, and Tamarillo. (Via The Typekit Blog)
With the Google Map Custom Marker Maker you can create your own custom marker for Google Maps. (Via Twitter / Christian Heilmann)
A new Google Chrome beta is out, with some nice new features like more synchronising options, Geolocation API, web sockets, native Flash support and more. (Via Google Chrome Blog)
Matt Cutts posted a list of Andorid Apps that he loves.
28 days after its introduction Apple sells 1 million iPads, more than 12 million applications and more than 1.5 million e-books. (Via Macworld, Apple Press Release)
Google acquired BumpTop, an application that changes the way to use the desktop by transforming it into a 3D interface. (Via Mashable)
Google invests $38.8 million into wind farms in the North Dakota to promote renewable energy. (Via Official Google Blog)
Google announced starring search results as a new feature in search to make it easier to mark and rediscover sites. Starred items show up at the top of the search page and sync with Google Bookmarks. (Via The Official Google Blog)
Personalized start page Netvibes is partnering with Orange to deliver widgets to 130 million mobile users. (Via VentureBeat)
Gowalla got a new and nice redesign by Belgian designer Tim Van Damme. (Via Jeffrey Zeldman)
Google introduced Gesture Search for Android 2.0 or above to search on the phone by drawing alphabet gestures on the touch screen. (Via Google Mobile Blog)
John Gruber wrote an interesting post on the Apple – HTC patent dispute and software patents in general.
GigaTweet is counting the number of Twitter messages and it shows that there will be 10 billion tweets soon.
WordPress.com turned on PubSubHubbub support for more than 10.5 million blogs. (Via WordPress.com Blog)
Location based social network Foursquare partners with Vodafone UK. (Via TechCrunch Europe)
After shutting down comments on Yahoo! News in 2006 users can now comment on news articles again. (Via paidContent)
Google Wave gets a new and better robots API that can push information into waves, robots can specify how much information they want to get back from a wave and what events it needs to respond to. (Via Google Wave Developer Blog)
1.5 million apps are downloaded from the Nokia Ovi store each day. (Via MobileCrunch)