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Every Friday we publish our “Follow Friday” series which features a few industry news articles we would like to share with you. We are constantly finding interesting, fun, exciting, noteworthy, shocking and industry-changing articles all week long on the internet. Check us out every week to see what catches our eye around the web!

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This week’s Follow Friday articles includes getting a better understanding of HTML5, Microsoft readies its users for new SharePoint online updates, learning 8 great tips for using QR codes, eDiscovery is made part of the broader plan in Singapore, and more.

Getting started with HTML5 - PC Pro
By Ian Devlin

No doubt you’ve heard of HTML5; but you probably haven’t seen a clear, accurate explanation of what it is, what it contains and what it can do. The term HTML5 is widely misused as an umbrella term for all sorts of technologies, some of which have no connection to the standard at all. If this has left you a little confused, it’s understandable.

In this feature we’ll give you an introduction to HTML5, showing you what it consists of and what you can do with it. We’ll also look at other technologies often mistakenly referred to as “HTML5 technologies.”

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Read more to see the additional articles that made this week's list.

Every Friday we publish our “Follow Friday” series which features a few industry news articles we would like to share with you. We are constantly finding interesting, fun, exciting, noteworthy, shocking and industry-changing articles all week long on the internet. Check us out every week to see what catches our eye around the web!

Click the headline of each article to read the full story.

This week’s Follow Friday articles includes the Financial Times’ implementation of HTML5, 10 future predictions for SharePoint, how fast search features are driving enterprise productivity in SharePoint, and more.

Financial Times: "There is no drawback to working in HTML5" - TheGuardian 
By Stuart Dredge

Nearly two years since the Financial Times launched its HTML5 web app in June 2011, mobile devices continue to be an important driver for the company's business, accounting for a third of the FT.com website's traffic and 15% of digital subscriptions.

When the FT first switched from native to HTML5 on iOS in 2011, it was seen in some quarters as a snub to Apple. Although that was partly true – the FT and Apple disagreed over control of subscriber data – a more important reason was the desire to make porting and maintaining the app across multiple platforms and devices easier in the longer term.

Two years on, Rob Grimshaw, managing director, says the strategy is proving a success. "I challenge anyone to tell the difference between our HTML5 app and a native app. There is no drawback to working in HTML5, and there are lots of advantages," he says.

Read more to see the additional articles that made this week's list.

The barcode is about the oldest computing artifact still in use, the lone holdover of mid-Twentieth-Century technology in the iPad age. But since the introduction of 2D barcodes, such as the ubiquitous QR codes built to be read by smartphone cameras, the rusty old barcode has become the chief enabler of some of the coolest, most imaginative new tech on the scene. That tech has both spurred and been abetted by a new generation of programming tools for building barcode apps, such as a mobile barcode SDK (software development kit) that enables developers to easily drop barcode functions into their apps with a few quick lines of code.

Read more for a few of our favorite recent examples of barcodes used in exciting new ways.

Every Friday we publish our “Follow Friday” series which features a few industry news articles we would like to share with you. We are constantly finding interesting, fun, exciting, noteworthy, shocking and industry-changing articles all week long on the internet. Check us out every week to see what catches our eye around the web!

This week’s Follow Friday articles include how companies will approach SharePoint and records management, HTML5 Dev Conference, the case of barcodes on election ballots and more.

SharePoint or No, Organizations Need to Rethink Approach to Records Management - CMSWIRE
By Joe Shepley

In the last post, I called it like I seen it: SharePoint out of the box can’t do records management. 2007, 2010, 2013 — none of ‘em left to their own devices are worth much when it comes to automating the retention and (more importantly) disposition of your records according to the retention schedule.

But as if that weren't provocative enough, I also argued that, regardless of system (SharePoint, IBM FileNet/P8/CMOD, EMC Documentum, OpenText, Hyland OnBase, whatever), and regardless of the capabilities of that system, pretty much no one is actually doing real records management on their electronic content.

This Week’s Links: HTML5 Dev Conf Edition - The New York Times
By  Andre Behrens

Last week, I attended the HTML5 Dev Conf in San Francisco. Overall the event was quite illuminating; I got a strong sense of where the web development community sees itself, and where it would like to go. This week’s links are to slides of talks I heard, as well as some I couldn’t attend but heard good things about. This is by no means an exhaustive list.  

Read more to see the additional articles that made this week's list.

Every Friday we publish our “Follow Friday” series which features a few industry news articles we would like to share with you. We are constantly finding interesting, fun, exciting, noteworthy, shocking and industry-changing articles all week long on the internet. Check us out every week to see what catches our eye around the web!

This week’s Follow Friday articles include overcoming SharePoint headaches, celebrating 40 years of the barcode, cloud computing and more.

How to Overcome SharePoint Performance Headaches - CIO
By John Moore

Microsoft SharePoint is increasingly becoming a victim of its own success: As more departments start to use it, bottlenecks occur and performance suffers. To combat this, some companies are rolling out third-party storage systems that move large data sets off SQL Server.

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GS1 US Celebrates 40 Years of the Barcode and Adoption of Global Standards for Conducting Business 
By GS1 US

More than five billion GS1 barcodes are scanned every day, driving supply chain efficiencies, cost performance, and revenue growth. In the 40 years since their adoption, GS1 Standards have grown into a global system, used by more than two-million companies doing business in 150 countries across 25 industries, including apparel and general merchandise, fresh foods, consumer packaged goods, grocery, foodservice, healthcare, and defense.

You may also be interested in reading:

• What is a GS1 DataBar Barcode?

Read more to see the additional articles that made this week's list.