by SPVZ, Valentin Adam, Graphiste.
Freitag, 31. Oktober 2008
Google: Open Social Graph
More: Social Graph API - Google Code: "Social Graph API"
… Based on open standards
We currently index the public Web for XHTML Friends Network (XFN), Friend of a Friend (FOAF) markup and other publicly declared connections. By supporting open Web standards for describing connections between people, web sites can add to the social infrastructure of the web.
Mittwoch, 29. Oktober 2008
Dienstag, 28. Oktober 2008
Viewzi - its all about the views
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:
With traditional text-based search engines, no matter what or how you search, your results are basically the same. Searching for Bono looks the same as searching for chicken recipes or sports cars:
Viewzi Corporate Home
(via: http://travisisaacs.com/2008/04/21/get-some-viewzi/)
A tablet to call your own
"Rob Tannen and his team at the Bressler Group, where he is Director of Research, have been working on the FieldCREW User Research Concept Platform, photo above. In Tannen's own words, 'It's a concept design for a data gathering system for user researchers who...spend so much time gathering information to design high-tech products, but have very limited tools themselves. It also brings together some interesting 'near-future' technologies, like subvocalization to silently take notes while conducting field observations.'"
Design researchers: A tablet to call your own - Core77
Freitag, 24. Oktober 2008
Treemaps for space-constrained visualization of hierarchies
Treemaps for space-constrained visualization of hierarchies: "Treemap 4.0: General treemap tool (Free demo version, plus licensing information for full package)
PhotoMesa: Zoomable image library browser (Free demo version, plus licensing information for full package)
Treemap Algorithms and Algorithm Animations (Open source Java code)"
PhotoMesa: Zoomable image library browser (Free demo version, plus licensing information for full package)
Treemap Algorithms and Algorithm Animations (Open source Java code)"
What is social media?
An ebook about social media from iCrossing UK:
[Download PDF]
Social media is best understood as a group of new kinds of online
media, which share most or all of the following characteristics:
- Participation: social media encourages contributions and feedback from everyone who is interested. it blurs the line between media and audience.
- Openness: most social media services are open to feedback and participation. they encourage voting, comments and the sharing of information. there are rarely any barriers to accessing and making use of content – password-protected content is frowned on.
- Conversation: whereas traditional media is about “broadcast” (content transmitted or distributed to an audience) social media is better seen as a two-way conversation.
- Community: social media allows communities to form quickly and communicate effectively. Communities share common interests, such as a love of photography, a political issue or a favourite tv show.
- Connectedness: most kinds of social media thrive on their connectedness, making use of links to other sites, resources and people.
[Download PDF]
Mittwoch, 22. Oktober 2008
Cool Visualizations
Pool on Flickr: Cool Visualizations - Tecniche di visualizzazione dei dati: "Cool Visualizations"
2003 MSR Netscan Usenet Treemap by number of Posters auf Flickr - Fotosharing!
2003 MSR Netscan Usenet Treemap by number of Posters auf Flickr - Fotosharing!: "This is a treemap of the Usenet newsgroup discussion community space generated by the Netscan system at Microsoft Research. This map represents the number of unique authors in each Usenet newsgroup who appeared in the current year. Data on the number of 'posters' in each newsgroup was collected and calculated by the Netscan service. The area of each box is proportional to the number of authors that newsgroup attracted in the current year. Newsgroups with bigger poster populations create bigger boxes. Color maps to change from the prior year, green indicating growth and red for decline over the prior time period. The original sized image shows significant detail. The treemap tool is available for free download from the research.microsoft.com web site. It comes with an Excel plug-in that allows users to generate their own treemaps with any data they can get into a spreadsheet (that contains a properly formatted hierarchical data structure). Your mileage may vary. Netscan can be found at netscan.research.microsoft.com."
Web 2.0 Expo: Presentation Files
Presentation files will be made available after the session has concluded and the speaker has given us the files. Check back if you don't see the file you're looking for—it might be available later! (However, please note some speakers choose not to share their presentations.)
Presentation Files: Web 2.0 Expo Europe 2008 - Co-produced by TechWeb & O'Reilly Conferences, 21 October - 23, 2008, Berlin, Germany
Presentation Files: Web 2.0 Expo Europe 2008 - Co-produced by TechWeb & O'Reilly Conferences, 21 October - 23, 2008, Berlin, Germany
aka-aki on the iPhone
Just a few minutes ago we did a presentation at the Web 2.0 Expo Europe and gave a preview of the aka-aki application for iPhone and iPod touch which is due to be out soon. For those who couldn’t be there at the venue, here’s another exclusive preview…"
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Dienstag, 21. Oktober 2008
aka-aki: leute anklicken mit dem handy
Aka aki (A.k.a. Aki?) is a mobile client, who scans the space around a mobile user with blue tooth for other aka aki users. If they are indicated, their profile will be downloaded via UMTS, Edge or W-Lan from the aka aki-server to compare their likes and thougs. Profile can be edited at the aka-aki webpage.
Visual Think Map
"Sources examples of mind maps, notebook, sketches, info graphics, concept maps, diagrams, topographic maps, spatial cognitive visualisations"
Visual Think Map - Exploring creative innovative modes of visual communication of information
Corporate Social Map
In July 2008 Ahead of Time developed a Social Map for Panasonic‘s brand LUMIX in cooperation with
Panasonic Deutschland.
"Since years we are very active in online marketing, like banner-campaigns or key-word advertising, as well as targeted eCRM campaigns with user-interaction. We realized that our current unstructured analysis of our activities do not give us relevant facts how to create even more-successful marketing strategies. Traditional methods reach their limits. That‘s why we decided to use the Social Map
Analysis to measure, reflect and re-organize our online marketing activities. The first results are showing us that this is the right way. A current Nielsen study showed that Panasonic is the leading corporate web-destination of all user electronic (UE) companies in Germany."
Find more at: AHEAD OF TIME
Download the Case-Study as a PDF-File.
Montag, 20. Oktober 2008
Canal + Set Top Box
French company CANAL+ and Yves Behar/fuseproject are launching Le Cube, a television receiver with a satellite decoder, ethernet connection and built in gyroscopic sensor that automatically rotates the display allowing the box to be used in both a horizontal and vertical position.
The unit is intended to look minimal from a few feet away and reveal it's high detail up close, the remote control features a sculpted soft back surface which creates the illusion of floating when placed on a table.
Excerpts from the press release
LE CUBE, was a chance to make the typical "dumb" receiver, smart and beautiful at the same time. In order to do so we had to conceive of the receiver box, the remote, and the CANAL+ TV graphic interface at the same time: the integrated system brings information, personal preferences and communication to the living room before one has turned-on the TV. LE CUBE is the first step in bringing the new capabilities we have come to expect from cell-phones, computers and the Internet, to the way we interact with our television.
[Read more]
Webpage: Canal +
OVERNEWSED BUT UNINFORMED
How News are seperated and displayed in papers:
OVERNEWSED BUT UNINFORMED || Diplomarbeit von STEFAN BRÄUTIGAM
OVERNEWSED BUT UNINFORMED || Diplomarbeit von STEFAN BRÄUTIGAM
Freitag, 17. Oktober 2008
Zinc Chan - icono
Zinc Chan - London, United Kingdom - icono: "The Icono has created a new experience for the telephone, which is a very traditional product. I have based my design on the iconic hand gesture people use to represent the telephone. The handset is divided into two parts, earphone and microphone. This invites the user to use the iconic gesture when using the phone. When the user dials the numbers, an animated path is shown on the touch screen. Therefore, people start to remember the person by their unique pattern rather than the numbers. This, together with the two-piece handset creates a more emotional interaction between the phone and the user."
GazoPa - similar image search
GazoPa is a similar image search service on the web in private beta by Hitachi. Users can search images from the web based on user’s own photo, drawings, images found on the web and keywords. GazoPa enables users to search for a similar image from characteristics such as a color or a shape extracted from an image itself. There are abundant quantities of images on the web, however many of these simply cannot be described by keywords. Since GazoPa uses image features to search other similar images, a vast range of images can be retrieved from the web.
GazoPa
Data visualisation of a social network
Felix Heinen Graphic Design Data visualisation of a social network: "Data visualisation of a social network"
Mittwoch, 15. Oktober 2008
YouTube on Google Android
I walk into the local coffee shop to get a dose of caffeine -- double espresso is my drink of choice. The Formula 1 race in Singapore was two weekends ago, the first night race F1 has ever held. I wonder if there are some highlights on YouTube. I slide open the keyboard and type "Formula 1 Singapore" and sure enough, there's a video with some footage from the first practice session. The cars look fantastic under the lights. I wonder if my friend Ken has seen this video. I click on the "Menu" button, select "Share," and up pops the email application - I know Ken will appreciate the video as much as I do.
Official Google Mobile Blog: Google on Android: YouTube
Know your set-top box, know your customer satisfaction
IPTV News: The set-top box is perhaps the most important device that determines the quality of a user's experience (QoE) of TV service. 80% of customer complaints are due to quality issues, where 40% are directly linked to the customer premise equipment (CPE). The STB is the front door to the operator's complete line of service (TV, interactive services, VoD). Because it is what users see, touch and feel in their homes, it is a representation of their services and therefore strongly linked with brand image. White paper courtesy of Witbe
Download White Paper
Download White Paper
Dienstag, 14. Oktober 2008
Montag, 13. Oktober 2008
Musicovery
Musiccoverie is a nice interface with genres, moods, decades, prelistenings, Amazon and ebay-Links and many more...
Freitag, 10. Oktober 2008
Chris Harrison - Digg Rings
Using the Digg API, I grabbed the top 10 most-dugg stories of the day (by midnight) for the past year - May 24, 2007 to May 23, 2008. I then rendered a series of tree-ring-like visualizations (moving outwards in time). Rings are colored according to Digg's eight top-level categorizations (see key at bottom of page). Ring thickness is linearly proportional to the number of diggs the story received. I also made a pair of visualizations using Digg's entire archive, which goes back to December 1, 2004.
Find a lot more at: Chris Harrison
iPhone Tech Talk World Tour
Apple technology evangelists will soon be traveling the globe to bring iPhone application development expertise to a city near you.iPhone Tech Talk World Tour - Apple Developer Connection:
Learn about the tools and technologies you'll use to create great iPhone applications, then work with the experts to optimize your code, refine your user interface, and apply the knowledge you gain from the sessions.
Whether you're new to iPhone development, a seasoned professional, or an IT pro, you'll find a session designed just for you. Plus, learn how to get your application in front of millions of users on the App Store.
Don't miss this unique opportunity. The event is free, but space is limited. Register for an iPhone Tech Talk today.
Nov 10 Berlin
Nov 03 Amsterdam
Nov 07 London FULL
Nov 10 Berlin
Nov 11 Madrid
Donnerstag, 2. Oktober 2008
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