Timbuktu is the first iPad magazine for children. It combines imagination and technology to display news and stories through the most advanced methods of education.

"This weekend, a group of San Francisco media friends got together and produced a glossy print magazine, start to finish, in just about 48 hours. The theme was "hustle," and they got 1,502 submissions from around the world. Their 60-page final product is now for sale online, and you can also preview the magazine's contents."

Smashing Magazine's Vitaly Friedman assesses the current state of web design in 2010. He outlines some major trends that are emerging.

Fray began as a website. It presented individually designed, true first-person stories. Each one ended with a question that prompted the audience to tell their stories, too. It evolved into a series of live storytelling events, Fray Days and Fray Cafes, that took place all over the world, attended by thousands of people. Now Fray is evolving again – this time into a quarterly series of independently produced books. Each one will be on a central storytelling theme, and include personal stories, articles, and original art. They come out quarterly. The core of Fray remains unchanged: It’s about true stories. It’s about proving that extraordinary things happen to ordinary people. It’s about finding that common thread that connects us all together.

Publishing a magazine independently used to mean spending a lot of money ordering hundreds or thousands of printed copies, and then hoarding the unsold inventory in dusty boxes in your garage for the next decade.

A YouTube clip of Wired's iTablet concept. Checkout the interactive info-graphics around [0.30].

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