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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."

T-Mobile G1 review - Engadget

T-Mobile G1 review - Engadget

Part 1: Hardware
Part 2: Software and wrap-up

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"

Social Media

Social Media Basics

View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: socialmedia marketing)

Alcatel-Lucent Triple Play

Alcatel-Lucent Triple Play

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

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Joost - Clientless

TV-Streaming Plattform Joost is now clientless with an online-player available.

UX & RIAs: UI Design Challenges

UX & RIAs: UI Design Challenges

Musicovery

Musiccoverie is a nice interface with genres, moods, decades, prelistenings, Amazon and ebay-Links and many more...

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

digg labs / arc

digg labs / arc

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BBC - BBC Two - White - Spectrum

BBC - BBC Two - White - Spectrum

Google Scholar

1. Google scholar is a reliable search tool to browse/access [some of] the academic literature. Is it the best free tool we have? Well, it's really the only general free tool for academic literature that we have, in an easy-to-use familiar interface.

2. Between regular (or Mother) Google and Google scholar, all websites, journal publishers crawled and made searchable - endusers can search about 100,000,000,000 items (yes, billion) discreet files, pages and journal articles. (On the academic side only, I'd guess that Google scholar searches around 500 million items).

3. Google scholar is a handy tool to locate [some of] the open-access and grey literature. However, its American-bias is unfortunate, and its quality controls need improvement. (This is where librarians need to focus their efforts in teaching.)

4. Google scholar provides access to unique content not in other search tools. (Unfortunately, searchers are advised to try both Google & Google scholar because there is unique academic content in both.)

5. Google scholar is still free and openly-accessible. It is now a part of the academic librarian's toolbox (but requires contextualization for end-users to understand its limitations.)


Google Scholar

WEB 2.0 VERSUS WEB 3.0

web 2.0................................................web 3.0

. ‘the document web’ .............................‘the data web’
. information abundance .........................information control
. controversial .................................... no less controversial
. ‘the social web ................................. ‘the intelligent web’
. the second decade 2000-2009 ............. the third decade 2010-2020
. Google as catalyst ............................. Semantic web companies as catalyst
. wisdom of the crowds ......................... wisdom of the expert
. mashups, fragmentation ..................... integration, new mashup tools
. search, search, search ...................... why search, when you can find?
. Pagerank .......................................... ontologies, semantic systems
. lawless, anarchic ................................ standards, protocols, rules
. print and digital ................................... digital above all else
. I search, therefore I am ........................I find, therefore I create"

via UBC Academic Search - Google Scholar Blog: December 2007 Archives: "WEB 2.0 VERSUS WEB 3.0
In writing the BMJ editorial, I tried to list the different features of web 2.0 and 3.0, and came up with a few obvious points of comparison. What else should be added?

11 Ways To Lose Laptop Backaches -

Forbes' neat little photo essay, "11 Ways To Lose Laptop Backaches -
Forbes.com," includes the obvious (the MacBook Air, the iPhone) but goes on to look at some Hmm, how about those? options: the Fujitsu Lifebook, the iGo Stowaway Keyboard, the Samsung Q1 tablet, and others. A good, quick look at some alternate form factors for mobile computing.

We Feel Fine

"Since August 2005, We Feel Fine has been harvesting human feelings from a large number of weblogs. Every few minutes, the system searches the world's newly posted blog entries for occurrences of the phrases 'I feel' and 'I am feeling'. When it finds such a phrase, it records the full sentence, up to the period, and identifies the 'feeling' expressed in that sentence (e.g. sad, happy, depressed, etc.). Because blogs are structured in largely standard ways, the age, gender, and geographical location of the author can often be extracted and saved along with the sentence, as can the local weather conditions at the time the sentence was written. All of this information is saved."

The interface to this data is a self-organizing particle system, where each particle represents a single feeling posted by a single individual. The particles' properties – color, size, shape, opacity – indicate the nature of the feeling inside, and any particle can be clicked to reveal the full sentence or photograph it contains. The particles careen wildly around the screen until asked to self-organize along any number of axes, expressing various pictures of human emotion. We Feel Fine paints these pictures in six formal movements titled: Madness, Murmurs, Montage, Mobs, Metrics, and Mounds.


(Website: We Feel Fine:)