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https://hacks.mozilla.org – The Demoparty Online Competition 2011 is part of the Mozilla Labs Demoparty Project, an initiative to foster artful exploration of open web technologies. We asked people from the demo scene to have a go at web technologies and (with WebGL being the absolute winner of course) managed to collect over 100 submissions. Now the judges have spoken and we picked the winners in the categories of Main Demo, Single Effect, Audio Demo, Animated GIF and pure CSS demo. Amongst other great examples of using technology in a purely creative way unhindered by real life application needs here are the winners of Demo and Single Effect: Main Demo: Akemi Single Effect: WebGL Water Simulation Demo Link or screen capture:

http://drupal.org – Symantec Connect is an enterprise class, community-driven, social business support and information portal for Symantec products, offering users of Symantec’s deep catalog of applications and services a platform to interact with one another and Symantec employees through rich web-based tools. Connect enables the rapid publishing of information about the day-to-day use of Symantec products through key community-centric features which facilitate the customer’s ability to:

https://hacks.mozilla.org – Last week I went to the London Ajax User Meetup in London, England to deliver two talks about HTML5. One was a re-run of a talk I gave at MIT about Multimedia on the web and the second was a call to arms to use HTML5 sensibly. You can go over to Skillsmatter web site to see both talks back to back – but be sure to catch the notes to the second talk in this post, too. In addition to my notes here there is also a great write-up of the evening by Ian Alderson available on the web. Multimedia on the web We’ve covered this talk before in the blog post here and you can read the extensive notes for the whole talk with code examples on my blog. The slides of the multimedia talk are on slideshare and here:

http://www.find-designer-jobs.com – Full-time(New York, NY)Jen Bekman Projects is looking for an experienced interactive designer who enjoys working in a fast-paced environment where ideas are quickly turned around. As a core member of the team that evolves our web experiences, the Lead Designer will take an active lead in developing innovative design concepts and executing complete, brand-friendly design solutions. The candidate’s portfolio should demonstrate innovation, resourcefulness and attention to detail—solid executions of visual designs and intuitive user experiences. Like the rest of the JBP team, he or she should love art, photography and technology and eat/sleep/breathe the internet and social media.Who We Are

http://www.webmonkey.com – Google has rather nonchalantly dropped a bombshell on the web — future versions of the Chrome browser will no longer support the popular H.264 video codec. Instead Google is throwing its hat in with Firefox and Opera, choosing to support the open, royalty-free WebM codec. Google says the move is meant to “enable open innovation” on the web by ensuring that web video remains royalty-free. While H.264 is widely supported and free for consumers, sites encoding videos — like YouTube — must pay licensing fees to the MPEG Licensing Association, which holds patents on AVC/H.264