The short answer is yes, I think Google+ has the potential to steal a lot of Facebook’s dedicated users, provided it gets adopted on a massive scale.

In case you’re not aware, Google announced the Google+ project earlier today and after looking at the promotional videos and accompanying blog post I must say that I think it’s a giant leap forward for Google. This can fundamentally change the way we use the internet. Think Facebook, but without the “walled garden” approach, that’s been my biggest problem with Facebook since day one.

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Well not really, but In the last week I finally had the opportunity to code something using HTML5 and CSS3, not that I haven’t done it before, but this would be the 1st time that someone else would get to see it.

“Why did it take so long?” you might ask, and the reason is simple.. most people that I do coding for just isn’t at the point where they think they need to drop older browsers and start doing cool things. So as you can imagine I was quite excited when this opportunity fell in my lap.

I specifically had to make a lot of use of three properties in particular: background gradients, rounded corners and drop shadows. The cool thing is that by just using those three properties you can make a rich, great looking, interface without using even a single image.

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They always say that doctors makes the worst patients or parents of sick kids. The reason for this is that doctors are cursed with too much knowledge. They know what can go wrong and before you know it the sniffles can turn into the black plague in the mind of a doctor parent.

It’s for this exact reason that there are rules and regulations in place that prohibits doctors from treating family.

We are not that lucky when it comes to marketing.

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I normally like someone to explain something to me like I’m 10 years old when I’m new to the thing or concept in question. The reason for this is that I find the details to get in the way when trying to understand the basics.

I decided to write a short article about HTML5, and it’s place in the future, in the way I would have liked it to be explained to me right i the beginning. This is a broad overview and if you don’t agree with anything, please leave a comment.

Even though the specification for HTML5 is expected to reach the candidate recommendation stage in 2012 and only be finalized by 2022, we can already start to see some of the advantage of the new standard in modern web browsers like Google Chrome, Apple’s Safari, Firefox and Even Internet Explorer 9.

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I recently prepared notes for a video interview we did at work and when the actual shoot happened it turned out that none of these notes were relevant to the questions at all, so I decided to publish some of it on here.

Saying anything about the future is always a scary thing, because you can so easily come off as a total idiot six months down the line. I can, however, make a few predictions based on current events and trends in the digital space.

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