Donnerstag, 29. Januar 2009

Mittwoch, 28. Januar 2009

The next 5,000 days of the web

Dienstag, 27. Januar 2009

Simple Complexity

A huge resource for Info-Graphics: Simple Complexity

Example: Oil Price Visualization

Viewzi


Viewzi is a whole new way to experience search. Instead of one big list, you get nice visual Views tailored for the content you are looking for

It’s all about Views. We think there are better ways to present information than in a simple list. We start with specific topics or search terms and ask: “Is there a better way to present this data?” The result? Dozens of new, unique ‘views’, or ways to look at information, each custom-tailored for that content. It’s the right data, presented in the right way.

Viewzi

Visualize Artificial Intelligence While You Play Chess



Play Chess at http://www.turbulence.org/spotlight/thinking/chess.html

Found at: Simple Complexity - Visualize Artificial Intelligence While You Play Chess

The Convergence of Film and Gaming


(via Cool Infographics: The Convergence of Film and Gaming)

Montag, 26. Januar 2009

ONE WEEK OF MY LIFE



ONE WEEK OF MY LIFE auf Flickr - Fotosharing!: "I had to record every single thing I did for a week straight, take all that data and create an information design poster, all in 2 weeks. This is the first, near final draft of it. I decided to chart my stress levels using nerves as a visual device. As you can see, the weekend was relatively calm, but as soon as school hit I lost my mind."

xGPS | Installer Apps | Jailbroken iPhone and iPod Touch Application



xGPS | Installer Apps | Jailbroken iPhone and iPod Touch Application: "xGPS is a replacement navigation application that can work with the external GPS modules like the one from OrangeGadgets for the first-gen iPhone, or iPod touch. It also works with the iPhone 3G’s built in GPS. Another key feature about this app is the ease to download maps for offline use, making say, your iPod touch a great navigation device. Perfect if you don’t have any connection where you’re at."

Hardware

Android Developers Blog: The Top 50 Applications

As you may have heard, the results from Android Developer Challenge Part 1, Round 1 were announced to all the participants late last week. We're still working on pulling together a more extensive listing for each application that made it into the top 50, but in the spirit of releasing early and often, here's a list containing the name of the application and its author(s):

  • Beetaun - Sergey Gritsyuk and Dmitri Shipilov
  • BioWallet - Jose Luis Huertas Fernandez
  • BreadCrumbz - Amos Yoffe
  • CallACab - Konrad Huebner and Henning Boeger
  • City Slikkers - PoroCity Media and Virtual Logic Systems
  • Commandro - Alex Pisarev, Andrey Tapekha
  • Cooking Capsules - Mary Ann Cotter and Muthuselvam Ramadoss
  • Diggin - Daniel Johansson, Aramis Waernbaum, Andreas Hedin
  • Dyno - Virachat Boondharigaputra
  • e-ventr - Michael Zitzelsberger
  • Eco2go - Taneem Talukdar, Gary Pong, Jeff Kao and Robert Lam
  • Em-Radar - Jack Kwok
  • fingerprint - Robert Mickle
  • FreeFamilyWatch - Navee Technologies LLC
  • goCart - Rylan Barnes
  • GolfPlay - Inizziativa Networks
  • gWalk - Prof. Dr.-Ing. Klaus ten Hagen, Christian Klinger, Marko Modsching, Rene Scholz
  • HandWx - Weathertop Consulting LLC
  • IMEasy - Yan Shi
  • Jigsaw - Mikhail Ksenzov
  • JOYity - Zelfi AG
  • LifeAware - Gregory Moore, Aaron L. Obrien, Jawad Akhtar
  • Locale - Clare Bayley, Christina Wright, Jasper Lin, Carter Jernigan
  • LReady Emergency Manager - Chris Hulls, Dilpreet Singh, Luis Carvalho, Phuong Nguyen
  • Marvin - Pontier Laurent
  • Mobeedo - Sengaro GmbH
  • Multiple Facets Instant Messenger - Virgil Dobjanschi
  • MyCloset - Mamoru Tokashiki
  • PedNav - RouteMe2 Technologies Inc.
  • Phonebook 2.0 - Voxmobili
  • PicSay - Eric Wijngaard
  • PiggyBack - Christophe Petit and Sebastien Petit
  • Pocket Journey - Anthony Stevens and Rosie Pongracz
  • Rayfarla - Stephen Oldmeadow
  • Safety Net - Michael DeJadon
  • SocialMonster - Ben Siu-Lung Hui and Tommy Ng
  • SplashPlay
  • Sustain- Keeping Your Social Network Alive - Niraj Swami
  • SynchroSpot - Shaun Terry
  • Talkplay - Sung Suh Park
  • Teradesk - José Augusto Athayde Ferrarini
  • The Weather Channel for Android - The Weather Channel Interactive Inc.
  • TuneWiki - TuneWiki Inc.
  • Wikitude-the Mobile Travel Guide - Philipp Breuss
  • Writing Pad - ShapeWriter Inc
Those of you following along carefully at home (or who bothered to read this far) will notice that there's only 46 in this list. 4 winners opted to continue their efforts in secret and so while we congratulate them too, we can't list them here.


Android Developers Blog: The Top 50 Applications

Enkin: navigation reinvented


Enkin from Enkin on Vimeo.
(via Enkin: navigation reinvented)

Finger Olympic


(via Photo-des-Tages #107 - Finger Olympic)

Freitag, 23. Januar 2009

Aza Raskin - Ubiquity


Ubiquity is something like a command line, but also used to collect new ideas concerning the user-interface. It means experimenting, moving towards a language-orientated interface.

Aza Raskin - Humane Interface-Design


Aza Raskin, Interface Designer, Mozilla Labs

Apple product of the day


(via Apple product ideas: one silly, one sensible - Core77)

Mobile users want more interactive social networking experience on the move - Colibria

Push-updates and single log-in access across multiple sites are key to the future success of mobile social networking

Research launched today by Colibria has revealed that mobile users want social networking services pushed straight to their mobile, making the experience more interactive and allowing them to communicate with all of their social networks from one single access point[1]. The survey of 2,000 online respondents in Great Britain found that 39% of 18-45 year olds believe that if updates were pushed directly to their device, it would greatly improve their experience of social networks via mobile.


Read more: Mobile users want more interactive social networking experience on the move - Colibria

GSMA Mobile World Congress

Exhibitions - Colibria: "GSMA Mobile World Congress"

16-19 February 2009
GSMA Mobile World Congress
Hall 1 Stand 1H49
Barcelona, Spain
http://www.mobileworldcongress.com/

8 Reasons the Palm Pre could b a new iPhone Killer


(via Competing with the iPhone at details of a global brain)

Mittwoch, 21. Januar 2009

SIOC Winners: Forum Activity Graph


Website: http://bigasterisk.com/boardsie/
Referenzsite: http://boards.ie/
Description:
Third prize was awarded to the “Forum Activity Graph” by Drew Perttula from California. This entry was a visualisation showing the popularity of forums on boards.ie as represented by coloured rivers of information, which were then rendered and displayed using Google Maps.

The image above is a stacked bar graph showing the popularity of the forums on the boards.ie bulletin board site. Each stripe is a forum on the site, and its height shows the number of posts in that forum over time.
For example, the thick green stripe in the middle shows the popularity of the 'After Hours' forum, which has been the most popular forum for several years.

SIOC Winners: Sioc.me



Website: http://sioc.me/
Demoversion: go.sioc.me.
Description:
The top winning submission was entitled “SIOC.ME: A Real-Time Interactive Visualisation of boards.ie Semantic Data within a 3-D Space”. The entry illustrates how 3-D visualisations may be harnessed to not only provide an interactive means of presenting or browsing data but also to create useful data analysis tools, especially for manipulating the “semantic” (meaningful) data from online communities and social networking sites. The entry was submitted by Darren Geraghty, a user interface and interaction designer, and it was praised by the judges for the huge amount of effort that went into creating it. A video of the application may be viewed here and a demonstration of the tool can be seen at go.sioc.me.

SIOC Data Competition Finalists

The winners of the SIOC data competition have been announced. The competition ran from September to October 2008, and the brief was to produce an interesting creation based on a data set of discussion posts reflecting ten years of Irish online life from boards.ie, Ireland’s largest community website. The competition had about sixty registrants and there were eight final submissions of very high quality.

Winners:
1. SIOC.ME by Darren Geraghty
2. Boardsview by Stephen Dolan of Trinity College Dublin
3. Forum Activity Graph by Drew Perttula

Other final submissions included:
  • “Forum Map Demonstration” by Tristan Webb and Ian Dickinson of HP Labs Bristol, a demonstration of self-organising maps applied to an information navigation problem in a big community site

  • “WebThere: Semantic APML Profiles” by Brian MacKay from Pennsylvania, a service for creating and maintaining profiles of user interests and attention preferences in social websites

  • “Find Something Interesting” by ITT Dublin’s Alexandra Roshchina and Aleksey Kharkov, an application to provide recommendations of the most interesting posts and threads based on interest-matching and graph-mining techniques,

  • “ChartBoards” by Martin Harrigan of TCD, a tool for examining community trends via term frequencies, and

  • “Visualising the boards.ie Community Culture with Charts” by Eoin McLoughlin of TCD, where various graph types were used to simplify the huge amount of available community data to something that could allow someone to easily grasp its size and depth.
(via www.johnbreslin.com)

Microsoft Nano Touch


nano touch homepage
(via the Clever Monkey)

MultiTouch


MultiTouch provides bleeding edge technology that enables the construction of large multi-touch displays, which can be either LCD or projection based. Our technology has been designed from the ground up to scale from as small as a laptop display and right up to and beyond huge displays measuring 20m (66 feet) across. It is also the first multi-touch technology, which not only scales so large but also works in almost all conditions from daylight through to complete darkness, even if the users are wearing gloves.
MultiTouch
(via the Clever Monkey)

CSSiPhone



CSSiPhone — Screens for all your iPhone needs.

Desktop Keyboard with iPhone Dock





Nice Concept:
Concept: Apple Desktop Keyboard with iPhone Dock Concept Makes Perfect Sense

Bulletflight



The next killer app:
"A ballistic computer designed to provide quick solutions in the field"
Knights Armament Company’s Bullet Flight for iPhone is an application that takes all the guesswork out of sniping your opposition. This isn’t a video game, but an application that can improve your shooting accuracy with your favorite rifle.
Shooting at long-distance targets is a lot harder than it appears. There’s lots of math involved and carrying a notebook in the battlefield is just too cumbersome.

Bulletflight

(via iphone-blog)

Montag, 19. Januar 2009

Multimedia mirror for mornings


Multimedia mirror for mornings - Core77: "Buratti & Battiston Architects took note of four things we're bound to look at or refer to when we first get up in the morning--a clock, the weather, a TV or radio, and our reflection--and combined these into a single object. Their Hi Mirror is a multimedia wall piece produced by Italy's Valli Arredobagno; unfortunately the company's website is not up yet, so details on the device are slim."

Donnerstag, 15. Januar 2009

Freitag, 9. Januar 2009

Microsoft Surface

<a href="http://video.msn.com/?mkt=en-US&playlist=videoByUuids:uuids:c6aa3288-f623-44b7-a4e4-7ff176f3d89e&showPlaylist=true&from=shared" target="_new" title="Microsoft Surface at the Rio in Las Vegas">Video: Microsoft Surface at the Rio in Las Vegas</a>

Microsoft Songsmith


(via fscklog)

Dienstag, 6. Januar 2009

Kooaba Visual Search


kooaba on iPhone
1. Use the built-in camera to take pictures which are automatically submitted to the kooaba visual search engine.
2. Search results open in Safari.
3. Browse through recent searches using the history view."

Montag, 5. Januar 2009

Augmented Reality Navigation


Augmented Reality Navigation from Robert Winters on Vimeo.
Robert Winters - Augmented Reality Navigation

Augmented Reality


Augmented Reality, Mixed, software, product, systems, solutions, consulting, applications, presentation: Viewer:
"The Unifeye Viewer lets you extend your Internet presence with functionality for displaying 3D products in your customers' real-world environments. And it couldn't be simpler: 3D objects are integrated interactively into a photo of the customer's own environment, perfectly scaled and correctly positioned. Customers thus only need a few clicks to place new furniture in their own home, for example, to see if everything fits. This increases customer interest - and also the likelihood of a purchase."


- Download a Case-Study: Augmented Reality in E- Commerce
- Cool list of Metaio-Vids on Youtube

David Pogue: Cellphone-Trends 2009


David Pogue, New York Times Tech-Journalist

(via Cellphone-Trends 2009: Video zum Wochenanfang)