Understanding Web Design

Jeffrey Zeldman: Presentations from Gain 2008: Gain: AIGA Business and Design Conference 2008: Events: AIGA

superWise Technologies AG

Für intensive Suche in Texten, für Musik- und Spracherkennung, für Objektsuche in Fotos und Videos.

Visual search in images:3sat Neues - 12.10.2008: superWise Technologies AG

(via "Neues" on ZDFinfo)

Look at: Microsofts Search, Google Sets, Koabasearch...

Semapedia.org: Hyperlink your world

Our goal is to connect the virtual and physical world by bringing the right information from the internet to the relevant place in physical space.

Semapedia.org: index

Googles Social Search Feature

(via Google experimentiert mit Social Search - Von Oliver Wagner - Google, Daten, Funktionen, Test, Frage, Ergebnisse, Social, Search, Profil, Schwierigkeiten, Denn, Hintergrund - agenturblog.de)

Social Marketing

Nate Elliott (Link to his Blog) from Jupiter Research about Social Marketing (Video).

MusicBox - graphical music recommendation interface

Yesterday I set up the MusicBox to animate transitions as you enable or disable features. I took a short video of this: it starts with no features enabled, and I go through each feature (or set of features; they are enabled in blocks together, like all allmusic.com tags at once), adding it, and you can see the shape of the musical space change as those features’ influence are added and subtracted.
(Read more)

Check out the MusicBox demo video

ZYB Sync for iPhone available in the App Store

We’ve made it into the iTunes App Store with our first app, ZYB Sync.
It lets sync your contacts with your online ZYB account, so you’ll be able to celebrate Christmas knowing that you are in complete sync with your friends.

ZYB Sync for iPhone available in the App Store

Vodafone BlackBerry Storm Developer Contest

Vodafone BlackBerry Storm Developer Contest:

"Vodafone is looking for the best application for the BlackBerry Storm. The brand new super-mobile BlackBerry Storm has arrived, so now’s the time for great ideas: the search is on for new, smart and pioneering software for the Vodafone Smartphone. Resourceful developers taking part in the Vodafone innovations competition for the BlackBerry Storm not only have the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to win 50,000 euros – the three best software applications will be provided as downloads for all users in the BlackBerry Application Center."

Desktop Touchscreen System

Dan Saffer, author of the hot-off-the-presses Designing Gestural Interfaces book, writes:

With the launch of HP's TouchSmart and TX2 computers, I'm occasionally asked what a purely touchscreen system would be like for a desktop. (It's rumored that Jeff Han of Perceptive Pixel is currently working on one, and of course, the iPhone, Instinct, Dare, et al have touchscreen OSes for mobile.) With the publication of my book last week, I thought I would discuss what some desktop concepts could be like.
Check out Saffer's thoughts here:

Concept: Desktop Touchscreen System

WeFind - Genau was Du suchst

WeFind fungiert einerseits als universelle Suchmaschine und andererseits als Makler zwischen Suchenden und Wissenden. Dazu werden Such– und Communitytechnologien in innovativer Weise miteinander kombiniert.

Zusammenfassung:

– Universelle Suchmaschine mit implementierten Spezialsuchen
– Suche in Nachrichten, Wikipedia, Blogs, Webseiten und Community
– Integrierte Community-Plattform
Hier haben Sie die Möglichkeit eine aktuelle Hilfe–Datei mit der ausführlichen Beschreibung und Abbildungen von WeFind zu erhalten.


WeFind - Genau was Du suchst

XMind - Social Brainstorming and Mind Mapping

XMind, is an open source brainstorming and mind mapping software tool developed by XMind Ltd. It helps people to capture ideas, organize to various charts, and share them for collaboration. Supporting mind maps, fishbone diagrams, tree diagrams, org-charts, logic charts, and even spreadsheets. Often used for knowledge management, meeting minutes, task management, and GTD. XMind is compatible with Freemind. The latest version is XMind 3.

XMind - Social Brainstorming and Mind Mapping

Video Shows Every Flight on Earth in 72 Seconds

Aspiring scientists from the Zurich School of Applied Sciences have built a video simulation that displays the flight path of every commercial flight in the world over a 24-hour period. There isn't much of an application for it, but it sure is cool to look at.
Video Shows Every Flight on Earth in 72 Seconds | Autopia from Wired.com

O2 Litmus

about | O2 Litmus: "O2 Litmus is an community project dedicated to finding and nurturing the very best new mobile, wireless and internet-enabled applications and services. It’s a place where anyone with a great idea for a new mobile application can find the tools they need to write anything from network-aware applications to widgets for Vista and Mac; but it’s also a place where users can engage with the developers, help them test the newest mobile applications and help to create the ideas that will define the mobile experience of the future. It’s this engagement between the developer and user communities that make Litmus a focal point for real innovation."

Google Friend Connect: Add social features to your site

Google Friend Connect: Add social features to your site: "Grow traffic by adding social features to your site"

Nokia N97 Preview

QWERTY Tastatur
32 GB interner Speicher (48GB max)
3.5 zoll Touchscreen
5 megapixel Kamera mit Zeiss Optik
A-GPS und neuer Nokia Maps Version
mobile Widegts
Integration mit OVI

The Interface of a Cheeseburger

All things have an interface. Shaping interfaces is shaping the character of things. The brand is what transports the character of things. When looking at McDonalds, iPod, Nintendo DS it becomes quite obvious that the interface is the brand.

Read more:Information Architects

Nokia Maps 3.0

* High-resolution aerial images
* 3D landmarks for 216 cities and terrain maps
* New route overview during routing and during Drive
* Instant access to real time information such as camera alerts, safety spots and traffic information for selected countries
* Integration of Wcities event guides to provide users with real-time information for events and movies in over 450 destinations
* Improved pedestrian navigation

Touchscreen & iPhone

Abgefahrenes Konzept: Daten-Abgleich mit Touchscreen und iPhone: "“The Multi-Touch iTunes-like app utilizes Windows 7’s latest Multi-Touch support. Together with the latest large screen Multi-Touch hardware, users can directly synchronize and play with iPod/iPhone music, photos and videos on a large LCD TV. The software will also support other mobile phones such as T-Mobile G1 (Android) as well as digital cameras in the near future. It allows wireless connection and synchronization between the computer and supported devices, just like Microsoft surface.”"

Smartphone Show - Presentations

If you didn’t make the Symbian Smartphone Show this year or if, like me, you only spent part of a day there and didn’t get to see many of the presentations, then you can now view them online:

Smartphone Show - Presentations: "Mobile multimedia experiences 2.0"

iPhone Case for Sight Impaired

Touch and Go: Tactile iPhone Case for Sight Impaired | Cult of Mac

"Portugal-based designer Bruno Fosi crafted the silicon case with modified bas-relief buttons that correspond to the iPhone home screen. Fosi says that the iPhone thus covered keeps all its functions intact, including multi-touch and finger flick scrolling."

Media by ~yofikus

Media by ~yofikus on deviantART

G-Map Navigation for iPhone

G-Map_for_iPhone: "Traveling somewhere you've never been? Or need directions right away? If so, run G-Map on the iPhone you're holding in your hand. G-Map can show you the way wherever you go, even with no Wi-Fi connection or in dead zones up in the mountains, out on the ocean, or even in an airplane. G-Map is a stand-alone electronic map. So once it's downloaded, you can freely search your location and get directions without an internet connection, anytime, anywhere, even when you're on the move. G-Map's massive data will help you find any desired location, and can also provide detailed information of the searched location such as address and phone number. It's also possible to enter your own personal notes or make changes to the information of the location searched, so you can even use your G-Map as a travel notebook. So now when you travel, you can leave the paper maps behind. You'll have everything you need once you download the G-Map onto the iPhone or iPod Touch you're holding in your hand. Don't forget: When you travel, take G-Map with you."

Augmented Reality - Erweiterte Realität

Papervision - Augmented Reality (extended) from Boffswana on Vimeo.

Test it at: Boffswana Papervision - Augmented Reality

- Flash 10.0, Webcam required

Instructions:
- Download and print the symbol
- Allow flash access to your webcam below when it asks (or right click flash and select settings).
- Point your webcam at the printed symbol, and the character will appear on to

For those having trouble on the MAC, we’ve noted that you may need to manually select the camera in the flash settings by:
1) right click on flash and select settings.
2) select the webcam icon tab
3) choose your camera from the drop down list (if your camera is an inbuilt one, it’s likely to be the firewire version).


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More Examples:
- www.julianoliver.com
- Youtube-Video

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