Last week Mulvey and I were talking about the mental fork created by Apple’s app strategy. Specifically, I mentioned I sometimes get confused when I want to “switch” my context from one thing on my iPhone to another – I’ll hit the home button and search for an app if I’m looking for a web [...]
I had the opportunity to team up with the folks over at Drop.Io over the summer for a redesign and brand-study of their entire application and I can’t say enough good things about Chad, Sam and the entire Drop.io team. They’re a super-smart, super-passionate bunch of geeks and they deserve all the good things that [...]
I saw this on piecemaker. It’s fresh. the thing that I love most about it is that they’re thinking along the lines of making the browser the central control-point for web 2.0 functionality. Moving into the cloud… I love it. Now MzLabs has to bring this to mobile computing with precise location-specific data and we’re [...]
…with BrightKite: Looks like there’s another Twitter-like contender out there called BrightKite. I just received a private invitation (as an aside, I hate that crap – enough of this exclusivity, in-crowd, 8th grade schoolyard nonsense) and created a profile. There is automatic Twitter integration which is nice, and I love how you can see locations, [...]
I’ll write moe about this in the future, but I attended the AIGA/NY Fresh Dialogue: IN/VISIBLE talk last evening and Fernanda Víegas demoed Many Eyes. This groundbreaking collection of data visualization tools and datasets is bound to make lots of noise as the months and years progress. Taking a youTube/wikipedia approach to democratizing data visualization [...]
Has anyone noticed the integration of geo-tagged images when doing a Google Map search? I just did and it turns out that Panoramio is what’s powering it. Go play with it.
(thnx Daily Exhaust!) The folks at Digg Labs have some pretty sweet data visualizations on their hands utilizing Digg data sets. Fans of data viz go check it out. Fans of digg – stick to the lighter, more usable, straight-up digg, no rocks, no salt.
Check out Aviary – a new suite of RIAs that enable image editing, pattern creation and (soon) much more.
I’ve posted here in the past about hyper-local content and its potential power & usefulness. I’ve also linked up one of the original hyper-local sites out there (one I’ve contributed to): Outside.In. As well as pointed out a very thought provoking essay by Steven Johnson, The Pothole Paradox. Well there’s a newcomer to the party [...]