Everyone wants “apps” these days, on their phone, their tablets, Apple, has the App Store to sell apps for the Mac. The demand is coming from all over the place, including consumers who have no idea what apps are, to people who are seeing this as a new revenue opportunity (which, it is)! I even heard from one developer who said that his boss came to him all panicked because he got a call from the company’s chairman of the board, wanting to know what their app strategy was. So far, most of the focus has...
By popular request - a few little additions to the HTML5 Guy! Now, with in SVG! I also created a skin for my laptop with this guy and had it printed at...
The last month has been really exciting for the Chrome Web Store. Not only did we launch the new (and very much improved user experience), we also launch internationally. The Chrome Web Store is available in lots more countries, but one in particular is close to my heart - Canada. In fact, I was up in Canada last week for a hack-a-thon and to meet with some great companies to talk about the Chrome Web Store. With any newly launched product, there are lots of great opportunities for people to jump on board...
A couple of months ago, I blogged about the anatomy of a great Chrome Web Store listing - and it looks like it’s time to do an update. A couple of weeks ago, we changed the UI on the developer dashboard and started asking for new screen shots, and promotion images. Not only is the new UI a little easier to use and understand, but soon we’ll be launching a new user experience for consumers - which will require new assets from you. I’d strongly recommend updating your assets sooner than later to make sure...
A couple of folks at GDD and other events have asked what I use to create my slide decks, and I figured I’d share and add a link to a little plug in that I wrote for the slide decks. My slide decks are based on HTML5Slides, the Google HTML5 Slide Template - it’s the same one that was used at Google IO, generally by the Chrome DevRel team and lots of other folks. It’s freely available for anyone to use, modify, fork, whatever you want, and creating the content for it is pretty easy. One of my favorite...