Category Archives: Digital Planning

My traffic visualised

By Dhiren | Published: December 6, 2009
Inspired by Hans Rosling, I’ve mapped my 2008-09′ traffic using motion charts in Google Analytics. After purchasing Rosling’s DV software, Google has incorporated it into Google Analytics and Google Spreadsheets. Bring on the sleepless nights of toying!
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If the walls could listen

By Dhiren | Published: November 14, 2009
Leah Buechley from MIT has been working on a project to create interactive wallpaper that uses low-tech materials to create an amazing display. What I like about this project is how it utilises technologies such as bluetooth: a technology that I still think is underrated and under used. What if your mobile phone could automatically [...]
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Social Centric Planning

By Dhiren | Published: November 14, 2009
View more presentations from Mindshare. At team Invention we’re quite into the 20 slide and 6 minute presentation style called “Pecha Kucha“. Each week a member of our team gives a Pecha Kucha about something they’re passionate about in order to: ice the cake that is our monday meeting ;p Last week my Pecha Kucha [...]
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The Social Utility

By Dhiren | Published: November 11, 2009
I loyally (or stupidly) upgraded to an iPhone 3GS last week. The appeal to me was the 32GB flash memory and built-in Nike+. I’ve never used Nike+ before, but I’ve always recognized it as a business idea that’s innovative on so many levels. The alternatives to Nike+ are ugly looking, expensive devices that are produced [...]
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Web Trois

By Dhiren | Published: October 19, 2009
I was called into a brainstorming session last week for a prospective client that wanted to embrace web3. Que!? I hear you say. As a digital bod I was asked for my thoughts on the components that exemplified web3. What instantly came to mind was “asynchronist, always on, cloud stuff and utilities”. I shared my [...]
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Comedians on Twitter

By Dhiren | Published: October 15, 2009
I was asked to look into which comedians are on twitter and the amount of followers that each of them has. Don’t ask, I know, I swear I do more productive things at work.
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Some music trends

By Dhiren | Published: May 3, 2009
I was interested to see which music website or web application was the most popular out of all my current favourites: Is blip.fm slowly losing the battle? I also started researching DJ Shadow, apparently he’s quite big in Poland — I had no idea! Poszanowanie!
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Processing

By Dhiren | Published: January 28, 2009
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 Safari [...]
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Collaborative filtering

By Dhiren | Published: January 22, 2009
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 [...]
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Data Visualisation Deconstructed

By Dhiren | Published: January 20, 2009
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 are [...]
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Early signs that Google could be going Semantic

By Dhiren | Published: January 8, 2009
So I read this post on readwriteweb earlier this week about Google exposing semantic data within it’s search results. It wasn’t too long ago that I predicted this would happen, and pointed out reasons as to why it was important to start using semantic mark up. Well there you have it!
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