Leaflet is a modern, lightweight BSD-licensed JavaScript library for making tile-based interactive maps for both desktop and mobile web browsers, developed by CloudMade to form the core of its next generation JavaScript API.

It is built from the ground up to work efficiently and smoothly on both platforms, utilizing cutting-edge technologies included in HTML5. Its top priorities are usability, performance, small size, A-grade browser support, flexibility and easy to use API. The OOP-based code of the library is designed to be modular, extensible and very easy to understand.

During today's SXSW keynote, social media research Danah Boyd, who works for Microsoft Research New England and is a fellow at Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet and Society, talked about online privacy. Specifically, she focused on how users can navigate issues around online privacy and how developers can help them to do so.

Forty miles north of San Francisco, on the site of a former industrial park, work is underway on the ambitious new Sonoma Mountain Village, a 200-acre development that aims to be truly sustainable. The development is America’s first to be certified as a “One Planet Community,” part of an effort to build healthy and sustainable neighborhoods in the UK, US and Canada.

Consider Google. When people focus - predictably - on the almost childlike simplicity of their ad driven revenue model, lost in the shuffle is perhaps Google’s greatest asset: its data. The kind of data volume that allows them to predict disease. As Nick Carr puts it, “He with the most data wins.”

Objective truth is no longer significant in discussions of political and social matters. _True Enough_ is about how this has happened, and what it looks like. We hear the phrase "marketplace of ideas" quite a bit; Farhad digs into work by psychologists and sociologists to uncover why it is that it is a marketplace in which bad ideas drive out good. I think it's a fascinating book that's full of interesting ideas, and I think these are ideas that we need to be talking about.

It's more than that: His team of engineers and scientists have created the first digital movie camera that matches the detail and richness of analog film. The Red One records motion in a whopping 4,096 lines of horizontal resolution—"4K" in filmmaker lingo—and 2,304 of vertical. For comparison, hi-def digital movies like Sin City and the Star Wars prequels top out at 1,920 by 1,080, just like your HDTV.

"Today I want to bring to your attention an approach you can use personally if you really haven't a clue what you are meant to do -- if you don't even know where to start. It's an exercise in acquiring self-knowledge, designed by Otto Scharmer's Presencing Institute."

Wat kunnen we in 2008 en 2009 van internetvideo verwachten? Sleutelwoorden voor de komende jaren zijn wat mij betreft kwaliteit en capaciteit.

This website is a survey of new projects and ideas from around the world. They share a common interest in using new media technology to help people in developing countries face the challenges in their lives.

We are excited to announce that we are opening up the Google Visualization API beyond Google Spreadsheets and adding more capabilities for developers. Earlier at the Google I/O developer conference, we launched several new features of the Google Visualiza

Prism brings web apps to your desktop in a neat package.

Parallax scrolling is a psuedo-3D effect often used in side scrolling games to create depth. In this article Clearleft lead designer Paul Annett explains how he used the effect to great success on their newly launched Silverback site.

Use the Tumblr API and the Code Igniter PHP framework to build a lifestream blog website.

I’ve been pondering reset styles over the past few months, and come to a bit of a shift in my thinking. Here’s the result of that thinking.

Een vlieg in het email van een urinoir is ook innovatie. Maar niet voor het kabinet, dat zich blindstaart op onvolledige r&d-statistieken en dus vooral geld uittrekt voor stamcelonderzoek en nanotechnologie.

I recently completed my biggest project yet; a fully fledged social network aimed at female college students. The difference? It’s built on Wordpress MU.

I decided I’d write up my arguments for switching platforms in the hopes that I might test my thinking and in the process persuade our client to move to a more community-forward platform.

Open-source knowledge base speeds discovery, research and networking with more than 110 best practice documents and a secure directory of participating government officials from over 450 cities, counties and US states.

Here, then, are some of the books that have tweaked our thinking in the last couple years (of course, we think highly of our own book as well)

Blueprint is a CSS framework, which aims to cut down on your CSS development time. It gives you a solid CSS foundation to build your project on top of, with an easy-to-use grid, sensible typography, and even a stylesheet for printing.

Computergebruikers krijgen wellicht in de toekomst persoonlijke aanbiedingen voor printerinkt op hun scherm als hun cartridge bijna leeg is. Het is slechts een van de mogelijkheden van een advertentiesysteem waarop softwaregigant Microsoft patent heeft aa

Ashoka is the global association of the world’s leading social entrepreneurs—men and women with system changing solutions for the world’s most urgent social problems. Since 1981, Ashoka has elected over 1,800 leading social entrepreneurs as Ashoka F