Geografische Datavisualisatie from Alper Çugun on Vimeo.
Background and links for the workshop (en). Time travel visualisation is a very geeky thing to to, see this presentation by XKCD-author Randall Munroe, starting from minute 4 :-).
Entries Tagged 'Watched' ↓
[Dutch] Geografische Datavisualisatie
June 15th, 2008 — Watched
Jonathan Zittrain - The Future of the Internet (1h lecture)
June 14th, 2008 — Watched
Professor Jonathan Zittrain of the Oxford Internet Institute previews his book “The Future of the Internet — And How to Stop It” at the Tribeca Grand in NYC on April 11 2008.
More info, including downloads of the book and this video: http://www.isoc-ny.org/?p=195
Firefox mobile preview
June 13th, 2008 — Watched
Firefox Mobile Concept Video from Aza Raskin on Vimeo.
The amazingly talented Aza Raskin demoes what Firefox mobile could be. One-touch, so less sophisticated than the Iphone browser - harder choices to make interface-wise (via).
Social media in plain English: Ice cream metaphor
June 12th, 2008 — Watched
Social Media in Plain English from leelefever on Vimeo.
Not sure how far you can go with the metaphor, but original nevertheless… (via)
Clay Shirky on society, being changed by the web
June 9th, 2008 — Watched
Yet another interview on “Here comes everybody”. I like his expressive grimaces in this interview though :-). Interesting points on separate identities and privacy.
[German] Society for the history of computing machines
June 9th, 2008 — Watched
In a basement in Munich, a handful of afficionados takes care of computers of the past 5 decades. (Elektrischer Reporter)
(French-language) Screencast on SMOB, open source, cross-service microblogging client and aggregator in php
June 5th, 2008 — Watched
W3F - smob from Nicolas Cynober on Vimeo.
Have been following the Alexandre Passant’s blog for a while, didn’t have time to test SMOB. The screencast is by Nicolas Cynober, he suggests these links (French-language as well) for further reading:
Big Buck Bunny (aka “Peach”), open content movie by Blender Institute
June 3rd, 2008 — Watched
Big Buck Bunny from Blender Foundation on Vimeo.
a short animated film by the Blender Institute, part of the Blender Foundation.[4][5] Like the foundation’s previous film Elephants Dream, the film is made using free software. Work began in October, 2007 and the film was released in an April 10th, 2008 premiere in Amsterdam (more at Wikipedia)
(Watch it full-screen by clicking the expanding-arrows icon)
Phil Whitehouse explores using TiddlyWiki to create a personal RFP (Request for Proposal) to send to vendors, in line with the main principles of VRM (Vendor Relationship Management).
May 20th, 2008 — Watched
Getting married as an example:
- you do it just once (or a few times in life)
- complex
- (lots of issues and interdependencies)
Jonathan Zittrain (on privacy and self-regulation)
May 15th, 2008 — Watched
Jonathan Zittrain promotes self-regulation when it comes to searchengines and privacy (which I think is naive).
(via)