Our clients are asking a lot of questions about HTML5 so we decided to put together a simple blog where we can centralize information related to HTML5.

If Steve Jobs has you all hyped-up on HTML5 and you decide you ought to know exactly what it is, check out our HTML5 blog: What is HTML5? Be sure to click the RSS link in the footer to subscribe if you want to be notified of updates.

If you’re wondering about future trends in computing, you need to be aware of Google’s Chrome OS. If you’ve ever heard of the concept of the Web as an operating system, this is basically Google’s attempt at delivering on that.

Chrome OS is currently intended for use on netbook-like devices, which are small and portable. Everything you do, when using Chrome OS, is through the browser (the same Chrome browser Google offers now). There are some resulting benefits from this approach, namely speed in doing anything online, but the tradeoff is simplicity. You can’t run Photoshop or Quickbooks or any other “installed” application on Chrome OS.

Here is one critical review of Chrome OS and one positive review.

And here is a blurb that explains one of the benefits of using a Web operating system like Chrome OS:

…the overhead of managing multiple PCs is too high for a home user. Paraphrased, his statement was that if you have five conventional PCs, it’s a pain to keep them all up-to-date and their data synced. The reason, I would add, is that five conventional PCs each presume that they’re either alone in the universe, or that they “connect” to this thing called a “server.” But five Chrome OS portables are five caches for the same cloud-based user and application data, and as such they resemble five netbooks only in their form factor.

And finally, a video:

You’re so glad the days of dial-up Internet access are a thing of the past, right? We’re all happily using broadband and surfing the ‘net with super-speed connections, right? Well, it turns out when compared with Japan, we’re pretty much still using dial-up.

Japan’s average broadband speed is over 15 times faster than ours! Ridiculous.

Check out this fantastic graphic which illustrates broadband speeds and costs around the world. I’m moving to Japan.

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I just read an interesting article on the Advertising Age website. The author, Phil Johnson, talks about the trend toward agencies wanting to incorporate more interactive capabilities and provides some insights from his own efforts.

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Seems like web standards and accessibility are continuing to attract attention. Here are a few recent articles I’ve stumbled upon relating to web standards.

Accessibility matters to… — a good overview of who benefits from standards

Web Standards: it’s about quality, not compliance — a passionate, if not somewhat overboard, post about what web standards really means

Web Standards Project Street Team — announcement about a new grassroots program from WaSP