Blogs

 I am excited to announce the release of StatPlanet 3.0 today. Many of the improvements are the result of your feedback. I would like to thank all of you who have helped improve StatPlanet through your useful e-mails and forum posts.

The new versions can be downloaded below:

- Download StatPlanet 3.0
- Download StatPlanet Plus 3.0

There has been much speculation (and quite a few misconceptions) about the future of Flash in the media with the introduction of Flash to HTML5 conversion tools,  Steve Jobs / Apple rejection of Flash, and Flash support being dropped for mobile browsers (in fact Flash-based apps are very popular in Apple's appstore). This blog post aims to clarify some of these issues. It also compares two tools for converting Flash to HTML5 - Wallaby and Swiffy - and their potential to convert Flash content on the web.

The new website has just been launched and is a significant redesign of the old StatPlanet website kindly hosted for a number of years by SACMEQ. The website name - StatSilk - reflects the expansion of the product line from StatPlanet to other products, notably StatTrends (formerly Graph Maker) and StatWorld. StatWorld is to become an open data portal with world stats on every topic imaginable.

StatPlanet World Bank won first prize in the World Bank's Apps for Development competition! Congrats to all the finalists!