HTML5 is still evolving standard and not in all parts ready. You need to know which parts are ready for use and which are not ready to be used. HTML5 Please web page gives help for web developers for using those new web technologies. HTML5 Please helps you decide which parts of HTML5 and CSS 3 to use. The recommendations for HTML5 and CSS 3 features are divided into three groups — “use”, “use with caution” and “avoid”. The result is a site that makes it easy to figure out which new elements are safe to use and which are still probably too new for mainstream work.

Usually most of the IT problems visible to society are the same ones that system and service providers perceive to be the most problematic. Compensation alone will not satisfy users when the incident creates unpredictability and uncertainty for them. After service degradation, users are eager to use the service again if they receive relevant information. Information and knowledge thus play a significant role in incidents. Users will continue to IT after the failure, using a service, most likely, when they get the problem situation in a sufficient factual information.

This is stated in a recent Finnish study, doctoral thesis Information technology incidents in the present information society : Viewpoints of service providers, users, and the mass media, which examined the users’ thinking and intentions of the services provided at the time of their IT-related problems after the failures.

Clear information can bring significant competitive advantages over other service providers.

Try the software at http://www.digikey.com/schemeit. This is an interesting tool and I have just started to learn it. To experience an instructional video tutorial featuring Scheme-it go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVaWkhrEo4s.

PS. If you are interested in circuit sharing check also CircuitBee. It has good circuit diagram sharing options but you need to use a separate schematic software to draw the circuits (software you need to install to your PC).

2012 and the Technology Blahs article mentions few predictions: We will continue to see innovation around cost savings and information flow. There’s no stopping the momentum of consumerization of technology in 2012. Smartphone owners are increasingly paying a high price for free mobile applications, with 2012 set to be a disruptive year of widespread mobile hacking.

TechCrunch has an interesting predictions on how HTML5 and 2012 will change the web in The Definitive Guide To HTML5: 14 Predictions For 2012 article. Apart from making the whole web more interconnected between different websites, web browsers starting to look and behave more like iPad, complete with push notifications and geolocation, and HTML5 ads replacing majority of flash based ads, the article also predicts that browser makers will start to introduce App Stores within their browsers. In fact, Chrome already has one and Facebook will also get a lot more seamlessly integrated with your desktop. Marketing speak decoded:
“Push notifications” -> ads rammed up your ass
“Apps” for browsers -> pay per view content
“HTML5 ads” -> ads take over the whole screen.
“Facebook will be seamlessly integrated into the desktop” -> all your info belongs to us

If there is a way to exploit the consumer with technology, companies have ALWAYS done so. Everything you do, everything you see, everything you eat, every breath you take, every move you make… it’s worth something to someone and they will always do everything they can get away with to capitalize on it. The only areas which aren’t being exploited are either prohibited by law or new enough that they haven’t yet figured out how to best exploit.

Late-Stage Web Companies Took In The Largest Tech Investments Of 2011. Facebook Poised to Lead Biggest U.S. Internet IPO Year Since 1999 Bubble article says that Facebook Inc. and Yelp Inc. are set to lead the biggest year for U.S. initial public offerings by Internet companies since 1999. That would be the most since $18.5 billion of IPOs in 1999, just before the dot-com bubble burst. There are companies that would like to go public, but are waiting for the right market environment to do so. The IPO market in Europe is six months behind USA.

6 Game-Changing Digital Journalism Events of 2011 article tells that after an incredible year of news events and milestones, online journalism in 2012 has a tough act to follow. We can certainly expect more successes and more failures when it comes to business models and mobile strategies. News organizations will clamor to be the first on new social networks. 2012 is a year of very new games.

SOPA opponents may go nuclear and other 2012 predictions article tells to expect an article page blackout as a way to put “maximum pressure on the U.S. government” in response to SOPA. Technically speaking, it wouldn’t be difficult to pull off. Antitrust on the rise because it tends to be far cheaper to pay lobbyists to cripple your rival than compete in the marketplace. If 2011 was the Year of the Hackers, 2012 may be the Year the Hackers Upset the Political Establishment, especially ones supporting SOPA and similar legistlation. Computer hackers plan to take the internet beyond the reach of censors by putting their own communication satellites into orbit.

Click here to find out more! Study Predicts Growing Use Of Social Media In Healthcare article tells that men are more likely than women to turn to Facebook and other social networks for healthcare purposes. Facebook was the most popular site for people searching for healthcare information, followed by YouTube. Another study says that Facebook a Factor in a Third of UK Divorces. When they say cited, they mean just that: That something from Facebook was brought up in the courtroom.

The 5 Hardest Jobs to Fill in 2012 article tells that finding a talent is in short supply, especially in these five areas: Software Engineers and Web Developers, Creative Design and User Experience, Product Management, Marketing, Analytics.

Five Things You Should Stop Doing in 2012: Responding Like a Trained Monkey, Mindless Traditions, Reading Annoying Things, Work That’s Not Worth It and Making Things More Complicated Than They Should Be. Eliminating these five activities is likely to save hundreds of hours next year. What are you going to stop doing and how are you going to leverage all that extra time?

WebSocket network technology has just taken two important steps toward standardization:

IETF Standard Organization has published RFC 6455 The WebSocket Protocol document. This is a draft standard, which is considered stable.

W3C has in turn made ​​a proposal called The WebSocket API – W3C Candidate Recommendation 08 December 2011 for Websocket JavaScript API.

Websocket working versions have already been in experimental use on many different browsers. WebSocket works in Firefox, Chrome, Safari and Opera (coming to IE10). WebSocket server side implementations are available for C, Java, JavaScript, Ruby, Python, PHP and .NET.

This means you can Start Using HTML5 WebSockets Today, check HTML5 WebSockets Example. Look also HTML5 Demo: Web Socket. Kaazing WebSocket Gateway has had for some time interesting websocket demos, so it is a good idea to read from HTML 5 WebSocket cracks the HTTP request-response barrier article what the founders of Kaazing are thinking of WebSocket.

Many Captchas don’t work well at all. More precisely, the researchers invented a standard way to decode those irksome letters and numbers found in Captchas on many major Web sites. Fortunately for normal users and the owners of those web sites the researches have no plans to release their Decaptcha. This gives the Captha users some time to fix their systems before the “bad guys” can work out their own decaptha program (trust me, it will happen sooner or later).

The major problem according to the researches is that most Captchas are designed without proper testing and no usability testing and are fundamentally unable to fully guarantee application security. Capatcha was always doomed to degrade over time, so they need to evolve. Even there are considerable problems, Captchas are still useful for protecting against certain threats.

Google’s slanted-red-letters Captcha (used in Gmail) and the fuzzy-lettered ReCaptcha was found to be pretty secure against the attacks (everything else tested much less secure). Free ReCaptcha is used by what Google estimates to be over 100,000 Web sites including Twitter, Facebook, Craigslist, Ticketmaster, and Microsoft. If you are looking for Captcha solution, try fuzzy-lettered ReCaptcha and do try to make your own weaker solution. For more details read The Robustness of Google CAPTCHAs paper.

Sounds somewhat worrying to me. ACTA has several features that raise significant potential concerns for consumers’ privacy and civil liberties for innovation and the free flow of information on the Internet legitimate commerce. What is ACTA? document gives details on the agreement. The EU will soon vote on ACTA.

La Quadrature ACTA web page says that ACTA would impose new criminal sanctions forcing Internet actors to monitor and censor online communications. It is seen as a major threat to freedom of expression online and creates legal uncertainty for Internet companies. For some details read La Quadrature’s analysis of ACTA’s digital chapter.

La Quadrature du Net – NO to ACTA video (one side of the view):

The Free Software Foundation (FSF) has published “Speak out against ACTA“, stating that the ACTA threatens free software by creating a culture “in which the freedom that is required to produce free software is seen as dangerous and threatening rather than creative, innovative, and exciting.

ACTA has been negotiated in secret during the past few years. It seem that nobody can objectively tell us what ACTA is going to do. You should oppose it for this exact reason. What exactly it will do is so multi-faceted and so deeply buried in legal speak it requires a book or two to explain.

If you don’t like this you need to do something on that quick. The European Parliament will soon decide whether to give its consent to ACTA, or to reject it once and for all. Based on the information (maybe biased view) I have read I hope the result will be rejection.

Another worrying related thing is Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). The bill expands the ability of U.S. law enforcement and copyright holders to fight online trafficking in copyrighted intellectual property and counterfeit goods. The bill would authorize the U.S. Department of Justice to seek court orders against websites in U.S. and outside U.S. jurisdiction accused of infringing on copyrights, or of enabling or facilitating copyright infringement. Proponents of the bill say it protects the intellectual property market. Opponents say it is censorship, that it will “break the internet”, cost jobs, and will threaten whistleblowing and other free speech.

I don’t like this SOPA plan at all, because the language of SOPA is so broad, the rules so unconnected to the reality of Internet technology and the penalties so disconnected from the alleged crimes. In this form according what I have read this bill could effectively kill lots of e-commerce or even normal Internet use in it’s current form. Trying to put a man-in-the-middle into an end-to-end protocol is a dumb idea. This bill affects us all with the threat to seize foreign domains. It is frankly typical of the arrogance of the US to think we should all be subject their authority.

UN wants two-thirds of the world online by 2015 article says: Freedom to communicate is a human right – as is having a broadband connection, the UN said today.

By 2015, internet user penetration should reach 60 per cent worldwide, 50 per cent in developing countries and 15 per cent in least developed countries. They want 40 per cent of households in developing countries to have internet access.

Governments should lift taxes on ICT services and free up radio frequency spectrum to fuel an expansion of networking, the UN recommends in its Broadband Challenge issued on Tuesday. Businesses should work out some smarter business models and the prices should come right down.

Connectivity is necessary, but not sufficient. Hand in hand with the roll-out and deployment of broadband networks, it is vital to develop new services, personalized applications and fully multilingual content to ensure that everyone finds their place in the global village online.

If this vision holds there will be lots of work for people that build and maintain the needed access networks. And there there will be lots of work to create that multilingual content.

Useful tools and tricks article mentions a nice on-line LaTeX equation writing tool at CodeCogs.com: You type in LaTex or MathML and it creates an image of the formula. You can then take that image and put it on your website.

You can go find most any equation in Wikipeda, then hit the “Edit” link to see the LaTex MathML type text expression. Just cut-and-paste that into the CodeCogs window and it will create the formula as an image. So code \int_a^b \! f(x)\,dx \, becomes this:

For alternate tools to show equations take a look at fMath. It promises to do similar things in a different way: you can put MathML/LaTeX code inside HTML and let fMath to display it.