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links for 2010-08-30

Long-form journalism starts a new chapter | Media | The Guardian More on niche journalism here. I've been reading N+1 for the last six months and I'm really enjoying their long articles and the biannual print journals. Official Google Blog: Google Realtime Search: a new home with new tools Google have single handedly wiped many [...]
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Information Design Debate

Banking this for now. Comments to follow soon.
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links for 2010-08-15

What deux yeux have teux deux teuxday? Not sure how I feel about this app. It's designed well but it encourages people to write lists, which have been shown to hinder creativity in comparison to mind mapping or drawing tools. Ideally the tool should allow people to build stories and visuals around the tasks they're [...]
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links for 2010-08-09

Meta-Mirror Concept Application by Notion ยป Yanko Design I like how this concept designer has utilised the iPad to provide a complimentary user experience of what's on a main screen. It reminds me of how you could use your PSP as rear view mirror for the driving games on the PS3. I can imagine using [...]
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links for 2010-08-05

BBC News – Google drops Wave because of lack of users This was inevitable. Google have various conflicting social/collaboration products, which include Google Buzz and GMail. Many of the features in Wave could have been incorporated into GMail and this would have delivered a larger testing community. Inevitably, Google will now compete with Live (Microsoft) [...]
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links for 2010-08-01

And the percentage of people who would pay to use Twitter is… | Media | guardian.co.uk Twitter achieves scale through its a large user-base. The only way to monetize Twitter is to sell advertising, data, API access, research and analysis. If did charge for use they’d risk the size of the user base and scale [...]
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links for 2010-07-27

Fathom First credible DV agency I've found. The credentials look solid so I'll be watching this space. Closely. (tags: visualization design data infographics processing information agency graphics benfry) Data as a service – O'Reilly Radar Lots to get on with here and i must watch IO videos. Google seem to be doing lots of work [...]
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links for 2010-07-24

Official Google Blog: He said, she said: a sibling search story First Facebook and now Google are both incorporating some form of storytelling in their comms. It's all bit cute and twee but the executions are quite cool. I'm liking the interactive map on http://stories.facebook.com/ (tags: ad google storytelling) Graph theory – Wikipedia, the free [...]
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links for 2010-07-18

Wolfram Alpha: the semantic web search starts to take shape | Technology | guardian.co.uk I still use Wolfram Alpha for lots of things, which include: calculating equations and seeking sets of information about a certain entitles. With any luck, Google will be turning Squared into a product that shares some resemblance with Wolfram Alpha. (tags: [...]
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What the acquisition of Metaweb will mean for Google

I’ll let the video above and my recent bookmarks do the informing.
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