Webmakers/Tools
- Lauren Ipsum
http://www.laurenipsum.org/ - A playful story in the tradition of Alice in Wonderland, only this time the fantasy land is filled with personified concepts from computer science. It's written for children or young adults but has enough inside jokes to keep an adult entertained.
"Laurie is lost in Userland. She knows where she is, or where she's going, but maybe not at the same time. The only way out is through Jargon-infested swamps, gates guarded by perfect logic, and the perils of breakfast time at the Philosopher's Diner. With just her wits and the help of a lizard who thinks he's a dinosaur, Laurie has to find her own way home."
The main character -- like Alice -- is a young woman. She starts out a bit insecure but learns to overcome the Jargons and figures out how to solve problems with creativity, and elegant algorithms.
The author wrote it as a side project from his day job as a developer at Facebook, via a Kickstarter project. More at http://www.laurenipsum.org/ and http://carlos.bueno.org/2012/02/bots-seized-control.html.
There's also this http://www.laurenipsum.org/tinkerpad (apparently this is more buggy than turtle at the moment).
StencylWorks - mobile game builder (built off Scratch technology) http://www.stencyl.com/
DEFCON Kids (Las Vegas, July 28-29) - "dedicated to teaching kids around the world how to love being a white-hat hacker. A white-hat hacker is someone who enjoys thinking of innovative new ways to make, break and use anything to create a better world." http://www.defconkids.org/
HacKid Conferences (Atlanta, March 17-18, San Jose TBD) "conference focused on providing an interactive, hands-on experience for the entire family — kids aged 5-17 & their parents — in order to raise awareness, excitement and understanding of technology, gaming, mathematics, safety, privacy, networking, security and engineering and their impact on society and culture." http://www.atl.hackid.org/
Game Closure Game Closure makes a javascript multiplayer SDK for both mobile and web clients.
AppMobi AppMobi makes HTML5 development tools of miscellaneous nature for mobile and web clients.
CocoonJS by Ludei (Ideateca) Ludei makes a SDK for javascript games and supports web (openly) and mobile (by license)
Spaceport.io (sibblingz) Spaceport is a SDK for developing flash like html5 games on mobile.
Adobe Adobe makes Edge and Wallaby export to HTML5 tools.
GameSalad GameSalad makes drag and drop game creation tools so that non-programmers can make interesting mobile games, and in some cases, HTML5 too.
Scirra Construct2 - Drag and HTML5 game creator
ImpactJS ImpactJS is a one man engine for making HTML5 platformers. Scenegraph style.
Appcelerator Titanium This is an end to end toolsuite that can build all sorts of applications.
Google Swifty converts content from Flash to HTML5
Wix.com Free website builder for HTML5 - drag and drop, no programming
