Ever since I saw Jeff Han’s lava lamp multitouch demo, I’ve been interested in ‘blobs’ or . There’s a great new HTML5/javascript demo of interacting with blobs (moving, splitting, merging, etc) http://hakim.se/experiments/html5/blob/03/.
The code is opensource under a MIT license so I decided to try porting the little application over to actionscript 3 to see how straight forward it is to port from javascript to as3.I know the trend is moving the opposite way – AS3 -> html5/js, but this is more a proof of concept of how easy it can …

If you’re not already familiar with twitter, then you’re currently missing out on one of the ‘newest’ (although Twitter is past it’s second birthday) social utility/networking websites sweeping the web.
To get a glimpse of the basic concept of twitter take a look at this video introduction from Common Craft:

With the premise of ‘What are you doing?‘  twitter users can post any open-ended message, thought, url/link, question, etc as long as it fits into the space of 140 characters (text letters).  Aside from ‘tweeting’ your own messages, you can ‘follow’ …