We’ll be looking more in depth at HTML5 over the coming months but for the moment we’ll leave you with this taster from The Wall Street Journal. The technology allows Internet browsers to display jazzed-up images and effects that react to users’ actions, delivering game-like interactivity without installing additional software. Developers can use HTML5 to get their creations on a variety of smartphones, tablets and PCs without tailoring apps for specific hardware or the online stores that have become gatekeepers to mobile commerce. [more]

Livebookings launches a free service. Freebookings is an easy to use online reservation software available to restaurants. Web-based (no expensive proprietary hardware) and user friendly, the software will help you:

increase revenue,
improve your online guest experience, and
build your guest email database.

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So what, exactly, is Civicboom? It’s an online platform designed to facilitate content-driven organizations and individuals to work together in generating rich media content.

Content-seekers can place a request for specific content. Then, by using the Civicboom mobile app (Android), or by uploading to the plug & go site, a content-creator can respond with rich-media directly to that request. All incoming rich-media content is then managed by the content-seeker, and directed to a customizable plugin to be embedded on a website.[more]