Development of my hobby

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Mobile soziale Netzwerke vernetzen sich

Das Mobil-Netzwerk aka-aki (aka-aki) und zwölf weitere mobile Communitys schließen sich zusammen. Der Allianz mit dem Namen Oslo (Open Sharing of Location-based Objects) gehören neben aka-aki auch
- Belysio
- Buddycloud
- Locle
- Mobiluck
- Moximity
- Nulaz
- Palringo
- Rummble
- Service2Media
- Skout
- Tooio
- WAYN
an. Die Mitglieder streben offene Schnittstellen an, die es den rund 30 Millionen Mitgliedern der verschiedenen Netzwerke erlauben, über alle Plattformgrenzen hinweg miteinander zu kommunizieren. Die OSLO-Partner gehen davon aus, dass sich größere Unternehmen, wie Google, Yahoo oder Vodafone der Allianz anschließen werden.

Mobile soziale Netzwerke vernetzen sich / OSLO-Group on Google

MOCOM2020

MOCOM2020

Usability Analysis of Apple.com: Why is it so Good? | Spoonfed Design

1. The Most Usable Content Navigation and Menus
2. Clean and Flowing Grid-Based Layout
3. Consistent and Smooth Colors; High Quality Images
4. Smooth and Scannable Content Organization
5. Fast Load Times
6. The Search
7. The Subtle Details
8. What Says Usable to You?

Usability Analysis of Apple.com: Why is it so Good? | Spoonfed Design

Introducing Safari 4 - See the web in a whole new way

Some new features:
Top Sites
See your favorite websites at a glance. Open one with a single click.

Cover Flow
Flip through your site history or bookmarks like you flip through albums in iTunes.

Full History Search
Easily retrieve sites you’ve seen before. Spot the one you want in Cover Flow.

Tabs on Top
Manage your tabs elegantly and open a wide window for exploring the web.

Nitro Engine
Wait less. Browse more. Surf the web with the world’s fastest browser.

Windows Native Look and Feel
Vista and XP users: feel right at home in Safari for Windows.

Developer Tools
Access the best suite of development tools ever included in a browser.

Apple - Safari - Introducing Safari 4 - See the web in a whole new way

KashKlash: the Game at Lift conference, inspiring and connecting pioneers since 2006

...The focus is on a possible future ecosystem - in a new world where today’s aging, less useful and even dangerous financial systems are replaced by (or mixed with) more disruptive innovations and exchanges. Imagine yourself deprived of all of today’s financial resources. Maybe you’re a refugee or stateless. Yet you still have your handset and laptop and Internet and a broadband cellphone connection….

KashKlash: the Game! | Lift conference, inspiring and connecting pioneers since 2006

MySpace CEO Chris DeWolfe Lays Out Mobile Strategy; Hypertargeting Mobile Ads To Users

MySpace is moving quickly to establish itself on mobile, after growth of its mobile user base jumped 400 percent from last year, with just under a quarter of its users—or 20 million—accessing the popular social net from their cellphones. During this morning’s keynote, MySpace CEO Chris DeWolfe laid out some of the company’s strategy for taking its online success and translating it to mobile and how it planned to generate revenues in the space.

Emerging Markets: MySpace has identified India and China as two countries that it would like to target, especially as their mobile phone user numbers are massive. China Mobile alone has some 460 million subscribers. China, DeWolfe said, was an especially “rich market” for games, and social networking, where specific nets have emerged for different provinces in the country and different classes of users. He quipped that there at least 30 of them were called mySpace.

@ MWC: MySpace CEO Chris DeWolfe Lays Out Mobile Strategy; Hypertargeting Mobile Ads To Users

Emerging iPhone contenders charted

AppleInsider | Emerging iPhone contenders charted, compared by RBC: "With Apple's influence hanging over the Mobile World Congress event this week, the Royal Bank of Canada has released a comprehensive comparison chart of eight contenders that threaten to steal some of the iPhone's customers."

Mac Plus Emulator

[cydia] Mac Plus Emulator

Lily

www.lilyapp.org

Lily is a Firefox add-on that allows users to create rich, complex applications in a web browser. With Lily it's possible to make programs that mashup the web or the desktop, visualize and animate data, modify webpages, play music, or connect to world outside the computer. Lily programs can be shared with other Lily users as text files or run by anyone as Firefox add-ons or standalone XULrunner applications. Lily runs on Mac, Windows or Linux, just like Firefox.

aka-aki on iPhone

Das Warten hat sich gelohnt: seit heute steht aka-aki für dein iPhone oder deinen iPod touch KOSTENLOS zum Download im iTunes Store bereit! Dieser link führt euch direkt zum aka-aki download im iTunes Store (und öffnet iTunes auf eurem Computer):

aka-aki blog Blog Archive aka-aki gibt’s jetzt für iPhone und iPod touch!

6 Gadget Trends and Their Effects on Social Media

In 2009, the year of the first connected US President, it’s safe to say that user-generated content is firmly established in mainstream living rooms and offices. Not surprisingly, gadget and hardware manufacturers are encouraging the influx of content by incorporating sharing features and communities right into their initial launch plans.
1. Social TV
2. High-definition geo-tagged content
3. Real-time uploading
4. Gaming immersion
5. Pico projection
6. Pocket band

6 Gadget Trends and Their Effects on Social Media

FORMation Alliance | KERN

KERN iphone game demo from Jason Franzen on Vimeo.

Gesture Dial

Gesture Dial: Empfehlenswerte Kurzwahl-Applikation
AppStore-Link

TagCrowd

access (5) alcatel (6) augmented (6) blog (11) community (6) concept (11) data (7) delivr (7) design (14) diesem (20) februar (10) gathering (5) gepostet (20) google (34) information (15) interface (10) iphone (12) kommentare (20) labels (22) links (20) location (6) mapping (6) media (7) mobile (26) people (6) phone (15) post (22) project (6) read (6) reality (6) search (12) sioc (5) site (6) smart (5) social (8) strickshot (20) sync (9) tablet (5) technologies (6) think (6) tube (6) turns (6) tv (9) user (7) video (6) von (20) watch (7) web (13) work (7) zu (20)

created at TagCrowd.com

TagCrowd - make your own tag cloud from any text

TapSB

via iSpazio

Gridplane

I collaborated with Instrument to develop a series of data visualization concepts for Google. These interface sketches are are all based around a concept of aggregating and visualizing online media buzz across various social media outlets.

Working in tandem with Google Analytics, the Flash-based, interactive tools allow users to explore relationships and see the effects of blogs, as well as mainstream and social media over time.

Gridplane

Webspam in 2009?

Matt Cutts from Google in his Blog:

Based on your experiences, close your eyes and think about what area(s) you wish Google would work on. You probably want to think about it for a while without viewing other people’s comments, and I’m not going to mention any specific area that would bias you; I want people to independently consider what they think Google should work on to decrease webspam in the next six months to a year.

Once you’ve come up with the idea(s) that you think are most pressing, please add a constructive comment. I don’t want individual sites called out or much discussion; just chime in once with what you’d like to see Google work on in webspam.

Webspam in 2009?

Alcatel: Piece Suit for Lego Phone

Alcatel Ditches Three-Piece Suit for Lego Phone: "I don't think I've ever used the Lego and Alcatel names in the same sentence before, but there is always a first time for everything. When most people think of Alcatel phones, they usually are reminded of the corporate market with support for all kinds of business applications. That can make for quite the stuffy image, so Alcatel decided to have a little fun for once."

Microsoft My Phone

Coming soon…

My Phone: "Microsoft My Phone syncs information between your mobile phone and the web, enabling you to:
Back up and restore your phone's information to a password-protected web site
Access and update your contacts and appointments through your web account
Share photos on your phone with family and friends"

Delivr

Socialize it
Share your mobile-friendly Delivr pages with friends and fans across several popular services. Sign up to receive a few extras like a personalized Delivr address, editing, and stats.

Send it
Delivr creates a mobileOK landing page for media and web sites you share. Send a text message containing its address (URL) to any US mobile phone number.

Print it
Delivr generates a flyer and QR Code for each item you share. Print out your Delivr-flyer and distribute them wherever your audience can see and scan them.

Delivr - Effortless sharing with a tricked-out, mobile-friendly URL.

Ideas Project

IdeasProject is an online space that provides a new way to interact with thought leaders and their ideas to the future of connected communications. Brought to you by Nokia. Interesting!

Ideas Project

Example:
Dan Gillmor of Citizen Media: You don't have to spend a lot on hosting anymore


Over 100 Videos from the idea project can be found on youtube.

Google Mobile - Sync

Google Mobile - Sync

Features

Synchronize your contacts. Get your Google contacts quickly and easily to your phone. With Sync, you can have access to your address book at anytime and place that you need it.
Get calendar alerts. Using your phone's native calendar, you can now access your Google calendar, and be alerted for upcoming appointments with sound or vibration.
Always in sync. Your contacts stay synchronized whether you access them from your phone or from your computer. Add or edit contact information right on your device or on your Google account on the web.

LastGraph: About Posters

LastGraph is an online application that takes data from Last.fm and turns it into a series of lovely graphs.
It uses Graphication for the graph rendering, and Django for the web frontend. You can see it in action, and read more about it, at lastgraph3.aeracode.org.

More Project of Andrew godwin can be found here.

Plug Into the Smart Grid | Augmented Reality

GE Smart Grid - Augmented Reality from mike geiger on Vimeo.

- More: GE | Plug Into the Smart Grid | Augmented Reality
- Launch Wind Turbine
- Launch Solar Energy
- Printme.pdf

The Tube

Watch.
Watch free-to-air digital (ATSC), digital cable (clear QAM) and analog (Cable, Composite Video, S-Video) TV with TubeStick hybrid. Pause live TV (Timeshift) and intelligently resize your TV window (Smart Zoom).

Chat.
TubeStick hybrid connects the TV community with its TubeTalk live-chat. Join a chat about the current TV show and chat with other TV viewers within The Tube. You can even see what percentage of The Tube viewers are watching each available channel.

Record.
No need to be at your computer - The Tube lets you schedule your recordings. The adjustable Timeshift buffer allows you to jump back to the beginning of a TV show to start a recording from the moment you started watching.

Go.
When the time comes to hit the road, you can easily take any of your recordings with you on your iPod or iPhone. If you forget to schedule a program, just whip out your iPhone and visit TubeToGo. You can do more than just schedule recordings, with a high-speed connection you can view and manage your TV recordings directly from your iPhone or even Safari web-browser.

equinux Store - The Tube

Kunst aufräumen

Ursus & Nadeschkin: Kunst aufräumen

OER Site Structure

Flickr Fotodownload: OER Site Structure

Google Earth 5.0

UX Blog

User Experience Researcher Nicolas Nova has one of those fascinating blogs with photos and analysis of how people use everyday things. In his own words:

My work is about studying how people use various technologies and turn them into insights, ideas, prototypes or recommendations to inform design and foresight. This blog is [a] selection of the material that I collect, especially in fields such as mobility, urban environments, digital entertainment and new interfaces.

Above is a photo of shopping carts in a Swiss grocery that have all been fitted with magnifying glasses, making it easier for the elderly to read labels and ingredients.

Visit the Blog at: Pasta&Vinegar

Dan Saffer and gestural interfaces

In the recent James Bond film Quantum of Solace there is a scene in which M, Bond and other agents share information and briefings around a multitouch table. Just three or four years ago this would have seemed as sci-fi as the now infamous scene in Minority Report, but this time it felt like MI6 was almost behind the curve.

Read the full article: Talk to the Hand: Dan Saffer and gestural interfaces

Gartner Reveals Eight Mobile Technologies to Watch in 2009 and 2010

Significantly through 2010, impacting short-term mobile strategies and policies.

- Bluetooth 3.0
- Mobile User Interfaces (UIs)
- Location Sensing
- 802.11n
- Display Technologies
- Mobile Web and Widgets
- Cellular Broadband
- Near Field Communication (NFC)

Read more: Gartner Reveals Eight Mobile Technologies to Watch in 2009 and 2010

Google Latitude

Way back in November 2007, we location-enabled all of our Google Maps for mobile clients to bring location awareness to the masses and improve the local search experience. Using My Location, millions of you have been able to easily find yourselves on a map at the touch of a button. But what about finding other people? Lots of you have been requesting to see where your friends are on a map, too. Well now you can with Google Latitude.

Google Latitude

Googles Search turns more personal

Google is now changing is algorithms on how rankings work on Google. For the first 6 months in 2009 you will start to notice alot of changes with your rankings (Google dancing) as they are currently experimenting new algorithms to cut down on spam and the way results are displayed for users. Googles Search turns more personal, changing the way SEO works 2009

Read more: Googles Search turns more personal, changing the way SEO works 2009 | Business Opportunity

FieldCREW concept - a system for gathering observational data

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."

Designers tablet features
- Several wireless data gathering components, including:
- Wireless, remotely controlled tracking video cameras for audio and video recording
- Handheld wireless taggers that allow each observer to tag key events of their choosing for later review - tagging is synched to a common timeline on the tablet
- Subvocalization sensor allows the researcher to silently dictate notes that are automatically transcribed to text and stored on the tablet

The tablet manages and receives data from these wireless components and provides features including:
- Video notation (i.e. telestrator) for annotation of events as they happen
- Speech-to-text translation of recorded audio (and subvocalizations)
- Access to stored and online project and research reference materials
- Built-in storage and recharging for wireless components
- Synchronization of all input sources (video, tagging, notes) for streamlined analysis

Read more:
- A tablet to call your own, on core77
- FieldCREW Concept 2.0

(via Core77)

Wimbledon Federer - Nadal 2008

Beautiful done by one of my students: web X.0: Visualiesierung Wimbledon Federer - Nadal 2008

iPhone Rubik Cube Solver

Amaziing: IPhone App: iPhone Rubik Cube Solver Is Pure Genius

Kreative Kalender-Designs

Kreative Kalender-Designs - Kalender gestalten

New Books: Trends in Interactive Visualization

Trends in Interactive Visualization: "This unique, multi-disciplinary volume provides an insight into an active and vital area of research – Interactive Visualization. Interactive Visualization enables the development of new scientific techniques to view data, and to use interaction capabilities to interrogate and navigate through datasets and better communicate the results."