MIX, the high-profile conference on web technology, has a presentation about SVG i expect many people to be rather interested in (as IE is only big browser not yet having SVG built-in.): "... Join Doug Schepers (W3C) and Patrick Dengler (Microsoft) who will take you through the past, present and future of SVG on the Web. ..."

The SVG community welcomes Microsoft as a (re)-newed member of the SVG working group and hopes that this will lead to SVG implementations in MS products, like IE and MS Office. See the following announcement:
http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2010/01/05/microsoft-joins-w3c-svg-work...

In the online marketplace you only have a few seconds to make an impact if your website is to attract any potential customers. Web site design is fundamental to making that initial impact and without doubt a well designed web site will attract new customers. However, design is more than making a page look pleasing to the eye. It is a combination of aesthetics, funtionality and performance but achieving this balance is often beyond many non-professionals.

Jumping into new code isnt easy for me. I should know, this is probably going to be my sixth or seventh time doing it.

I've been stuck on flash and flex for the last few years, but I'm looking to get into the SVG world for some of my graphic oriented editing. This should be a pretty good experience. Hopefully, my goals will be to ditch adobe alltogethor. You can see some of my work here:

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Both were for a friend of mine. I would show some other but they were mostly clients.

Definetly can't wait to see what this new world will open for me.

KIYUT just released Sketsa SVG Editor 6.2.2, a cross platform vector drawing application based on SVG. It features various tools for optimizing content creation, giving designers unsurpassed support for creativity. These tools include property palette, source editor, resources editor, SVG specific shape tools, transformation tools, and additional illustration tools. Sketsa uses SVG as a native file format.

What's new:
* Fix regression on Undo/Redo and Tools
* Improved Installer

With version 8.1, Mappetizer for ArcGIS now supports the free online map OpenStreetMap. With this you have access to a street map which makes you independent of Google Maps, Bing Maps and their terms of services. In many cases OpenStreetMap is much more detailed as the other maps too.
Also the Wikipedia Geocoding Webservice by GeoNames is supported.
Please have a look on our example.

The image that comes with the Wikipedia entry on Scalable Vector Graphics (click for SVG source !#%&) can use some improvements.

Looking at the image:

• update version to 1.1
• fix indenting

Looking at the source:

• use text elements for text
• scour it

Questions:

For those who couldn't make it to SVG Open this year, there's a little Follow-Up at the SVG Open website. If you have any links to blogposts or photos, please tell the organizers.

KIYUT just released Sketsa SVG Editor 6.2.1, a cross platform vector drawing application based on SVG. It features various tools for optimizing content creation, giving designers unsurpassed support for creativity. These tools include property palette, source editor, resources editor, SVG specific shape tools, transformation tools, and additional illustration tools. Sketsa uses SVG as a native file format.

This is an open source thing written in JavaScript with SVG. It runs well in IE/ASV, Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Safari. We described the thing at SVG Open (but it was in the "small room" so some of you missed it.
http://www.svgopen.org/2009/papers/42-Grapher__an_open_source_SVGbased_w...

At Jeff Schiller's encouragement, we will work on moving it to a Google Code Project.

For now take a look at http://granite.sru.edu/dailey09/grapher.html (there is an old VML version for IE only at llinks visible from http://srufaculty.sru.edu/david.dailey/grapher/)