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Vintage Radios
These radios are just too kool for skool!
Some people say I was born in the wrong decade—and that I should have been a child of the sixties. Things made before my time look so damn cool, I don’t think we’re half as cool as our parents were.
via boingboing.
Bragging design
Brag ‘n’ dare community website Bragster has a cool homepage feature, little translucent dialogue boxes that pop up to let visitors know about conversations happening inside. You can’t come in though, you have to become a member, very clever me thinks.
Also posted in Social networks Tagged adobe air, community based site, Design, online community, social network 1 Comment
Web Map
More Geek Chic from me, this time it comes in the form of this cool wallpaper designed by IA Japan. You can download it or order it as a poster for your office.
Processing
I’ve been tinkering with Processing recently, well trying to tinker with it. The coding skills are not quite up to scratch (I am working on it though (trying to anyway), would love to program my own DV)
It’s Open Source language for specifically creating and prototyping data visualisations, the visualisations do not render in [...]
Also posted in Data Visualisation, Digital Planning, Open Source Tagged animation, Data Visualisation, flash alternatives, graphic design, Open Source, processing Leave a comment
Collaborative filtering
How do you look for books, new music and information? We increasingly seem to discover things via recommendation features on websites and web applications.
It’s nothing new, and I suppose most of us now see recommendation engines as standard features on websites. Ever thought about how much they shorten the buying cycle/purchase funnel?
I think recommendation [...]
Also posted in Digital Planning, Social Media Tagged Collaborative filtering, folksonomies, folksonomy, reccomendation engine, self organisation 1 Comment
Data Visualisation Deconstructed
Well it’s no secret that I have small obsession with web applications and really damn cool data visualisation concepts. Recently I digged a bit deeper into the anatomy of web applications and now I’m digging a bit deeper into anatomy of DV concepts.
There are so many cool DV concepts about, some of them [...]
Also posted in Data Visualisation, Digital Planning Tagged ajax, conceptual design, Data Visualisation, flash, javascript, mash up, RSS Leave a comment
The Decline of Maritime Empires