links for 2010-01-14
January 14, 2010
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Pranav Mistry blurring the lines between physical and digital
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Great concept that importantly focusses on the needs of the user and their experience…
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Some great thinking to reposition AOL…
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Nokia exploring gestural interaction with mobile devices…
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An amazing opportunity for some data blending…
links for 2009-12-02
December 2, 2009
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At last… now can we stop calling ‘them’ the user…
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I’m loving this payment solution…
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What’s your favourite?
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Fantastic interpretation of data…
links for 2008-12-15
December 15, 2008
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A great source of inspiration. Love data and visulisation? Look no further…
Great live show driven by innovative use of video technology…
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Seadragon Goes Mobile : Microsoft Live Labs
One of the best iPhone Apps I have downloaded… from Microsoft Livelabs.
(tags: iphone app seadragon livelabs)
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An oldie, but it popped up in the studio today. I love the simplicity of displaying time v’s distance…
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I saw Miltos Manetas the other night at Webby/ICA do. Great to catch up on the Neen movement…
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I’m a bit late with this post – apologies. Love the idea od SIC – been watching closely. Working on how to implement something along these lines…
links for 2008-10-28
October 28, 2008
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It’s time to think about leaving your laptop at home.
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Idee has built a remarkably easy to use tool for searching Flickr for photos according to color palatte.
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The economic crisis might leave growth-oriented companies like Twitter with little choice but to start focusing on the bottom line.
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Blurring the lines between what is a floor and what is a ceiling, the Jenga-like structure of Final Wooden House allows its occupiers to decide how to use the space according to their position.
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The use of the typically green/red colored treemaps to depict the stock market exchange is not particularly new, especially for those who know the now famous SmartMoney Map of the Market. However, FinViz.com takes the more traditional flat treemap version one step further by introducing a 2.5-dimensional perspective [finviz.com] as well as a geographical overview [finviz.com] version.
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Yet another competitor of Many Eyes, Swivel, Track-n-Graph, WidGenie and the just-posted iCharts: Trendrr [trendrr.com] has the capability to track the popularity and awareness of trends across a variety of inputs, ranging from search engine results, news stories, social networks, to blog buzz and video views downloads.
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I’m not sure how many of you are catching up with BBC TV via iPlayer on your Wii but apparently it’s been a less than satisfactory experience. The Beeb has now tweaked it all though to make sure that all you arm-wavers will have a much easier time with iPlayer from now on.
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Google Earth. On the iPhone. That is, I would imagine, all you need to know to send you careening off to the App Store, from where you can grab the free download of Google’s Aerial Opus.
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Looking for growth in new markets where it is increasingly being bypassed, Microsoft said Monday that late next year it would begin offering a new “cloud” operating system that would manage the relationship between software inside the computer and on the Web, where data and services are becoming increasingly centralized.
links for 2008-10-13
October 13, 2008
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Researchers from the Boston University College of Engineering are currently spending their time looking at ways to use light bulbs instead of traditional wireless communication to transfer data.
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One of the highlights of the London Design Festival wasn’t a big name or flashy product, it was a low-key installation from a young design graduate placed in a corner of Tent London.
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There’s nothing like a bit of luxury when staying at a nice hotel. Be it in-room dining or the staff waiting on your every need, feeling like a king for a day is a matter of taking advantage of the hotel’s services. Unfortunately, the systems in place for requesting such things are years behind, teetering on the edge of archaic.
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Campers are usually unsightly hunks of metal spewing smoke all over the highways. We’d much prefer traveling in the dutch countryside in a Tonke Camper.
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Man, has Hulu nailed online TV viewing or what? First off, they have a huge library of content that people actually want (e.g. SNL, Family Guy, Daily Show, Colbert, Kitchen Nightmares, etc.). And then they really execute on having a usable, effective UI.
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A couple days ago, Eyebeam in New York City opened what by some has been called their best show so far. It is titled Untethered, and was curated by visiting fellow Sarah Cook to be “a sculpture garden of everyday objects deprogrammed of their original function, embedded with new intelligence and transformed into surrealist and surprising readymades”.
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A textual emotion recognition & visualization engine based on the concept of synesthesia , or in other words: “code that feels the words visually”. the synesketch application is able to dynamically transfer the text into animated visual patterns.
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This morning, I had the pleasure of taking part in a podcast with Wayne Sutton and Kipp Bodnarf for their Talk Social News program. During the conversation, we discussed how to find time to participate in multiple social networks, how today’s technology luddites might some day consume information, using RSS, and what the recent economic turbulence means for today’s startups and tomorrow’s entrepreneurs.
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If you thought China’s opening ceremony was impressive for its scale and teamwork then spare a thought for the 52 German design students who were handed the knee weakening task of creating a temporary 200sqm world that tries to translate sociological terms like self-portrayal, community and retreat into tangible spatial situations. As impressive as it is, the real treat is in the details. The entire space was created by lashing together almost 1.3 million cable ties. The result is nothing short of amazing. Visitors are invited to explore the surreal landscape of cocoons, webs and light called “The Third Space” that took a staggering 16,870 hours to complete.
links for 2008-10-3
October 3, 2008
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Here are some initial shots of the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic aka the Tube aka the first Symbian S60 touchscreen phone.
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The U.S. will snatch the lead in mobile technology from Europe as the Internet is integrated with mobile devices, Nokia’s CEO told a Silicon Valley audience on Wednesday night.
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a visual representation of (a sample of) over 1.4 million rows of data originating from the Federal Election Commission, aiming to reveal donations & examine any patterns in the type of donations given.
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an online information dashboard for the Indianopolis Museum of Art, which attempts to measure & visualize various aspects of the museum’s performance. the goal of this dashboard is to seek to quantify & report out on areas of activity of general interest to museum observers & to particular interest to museum studies specialists, colleagues & patrons. tracked data attributes include “Fans on Facebook”, “KWh per Day Energy Consumption” & “Number of Art Works on Loan”.
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Apart from 3D forcing you wear silly hippie glasses that make you look like a dork and which leave you with a splitting headache, 3D is still largely a novelty. But now TV makers like Philips are determined to make 3D tellies a reality.
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Nintendo has just fired the latest salvo in the portable gaming wars.
links for 2008-07-24
July 24, 2008
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Wireless HD video gets a big boost as Sony, Samsung Motorola, Sharp and Hitachi join forces to support a technology that could send high-definition video signals from a single set-top box to screens around the home.
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In their first newspaper interview since buying third-party search startup Summize, the Twitter founders Jack Dorsey and Evan Williams talk to Guardian Technology.
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Audi is set to release the next version of their MMI (Multi Media Interface). The MMI powers their nav, radio, and car systems.
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BSkyB has unveiled plans to take on Apple’s iTunes with a new subscription-based digital music service, with packages likely to be priced around £10 a month.
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links for 2008-07-23
July 23, 2008
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Jaeger LeCoultre’s Atmos 561 mechanical clock is the work of Australian super-designer Marc Newson.
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By combining some of the finest online music services, the folks at Favtape have concocted a lightening-fast online mixtape creation tool that creates sharable mixes of your favorite songs in under a second.
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It’s official: the Polaroid picture will soon be a thing of the past. The news that by next year, the photo company will stop producing its iconic instant film in favor of a more lucrative digital field has left legions of longtime fans bereft.
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Reviewing Phaidon’s latest tome, Le Corbusier Le Grand, is like being asked to review the Constitution. How do you take in something so all-encompassing, so sweeping in just a few sittings? And then, what do you say about it? Um, it’s good?
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The popular mapping site added walking directions to its arsenal of on-the-go search info. While the results aren’t perfect just yet, the service is capable of finding and recommending the most direct, flat and pedestrian-friendly route.
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The creator of Super Mario talks Nintendo’s future plans, including new Wii motion controllers, Wii Music, and the future of his famous franchises. Wired.com video interview by Chris Kohler.
links for 2008-07-03
July 3, 2008
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Several visualizations of real-time coffee consumption tracked by hacking a real (& online) coffee machine.
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The UK government launches a competition to find innovative ways of using the masses of data it collects.
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A cleverly subtle (and totally Japanese) update to the classic wooden ruler, the Split Ruler by Tokyo-based Cina has a pencil-shaped cut-out for placing pens or pencils when not in use.
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Blogged, the blog directory that we introduced last February, has launched a news portal that aspires to hand-pick the most interesting stories from across the blogosphere.
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Tipit, a startup that lets users tip website owners for their content, has launched integration with Twitter.
