An accounting of the year passed in beautiful infographical form.
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donderdag 17 januari 2008
woensdag 16 januari 2008
WORD SIMILARITY
Given a input word, one can retrieve the words that are most similar to it. The similar words are grouped automatically into clusters. Each cluster is represented by a distinct color.
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GOOGLE SETS
How can Google Sets help?
Enter a few items from a set of things. Next, press Large Set or Small Set and Google Sets will try to predict other items in the set.
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PECHA KUCHA NIGHT
What is Pecha Kucha Night?
Pecha Kucha Night, devised by Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham (Klein Dytham architecture), was conceived in 2003 as a place for young designers to meet, network, and show their work in public.
But as we all know, give a mike to a designer (especially an architect) and you’ll be trapped for hours. The key to Pecha Kucha Night is its patented system for avoiding this fate. Each presenter is allowed 20 images, each shown for 20 seconds each – giving 6 minutes 40 seconds of fame before the next presenter is up. This keeps presentations concise, the interest level up, and gives more people the chance to show.
Pecha Kucha (which is Japanese for the sound of conversation) has tapped into a demand for a forum in which creative work can be easily and informally shown, without having to rent a gallery or chat up a magazine editor. This is a† demand that seems to be global – as Pecha Kucha Night, without any pushing, has spread virally to over 100 cities across the world. Find a location and join the conversation.
Pecha Kucha Brussels Vol. 02
When Sunday 20 January at 20:20
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vrijdag 11 januari 2008
donderdag 10 januari 2008
GUESS THE GOOGLE
This is so much fun and the creator is right - it is very addictive. Guess-the-Google is a game very you will see a number of images, and you then have 20 seconds to guess what keyword that was used to find them - based on Google Image Search.
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maandag 7 januari 2008
THE COMMONCRAFT SHOW
Social Bookmarking in Plain English
Wikis in Plain English
The commoncraft show :
"Our product is explanation.We use a simple format and real-world stories to make sense of complex ideas. We're interpreters. We present your products and services in plain English using short, unique and understandable videos in a format we call Paperworks."
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CHRONOTEBOOK MUJI AWARD
Diary schedules are arranged in lines and grids, which are difficult to see and has little flexibility.
This notebook makes it clear, intuitive and easy to plan and see your daily schedules.
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vrijdag 4 januari 2008
PREFUSE
Prefuse is a set of software tools for creating rich interactive data visualizations. The original prefuse toolkit provides a visualization framework for the Java programming language. The prefuse flare toolkit provides visualization and animation tools for ActionScript and the Adobe Flash Player.
Prefuse supports a rich set of features for data modeling, visualization, and interaction. It provides optimized data structures for tables, graphs, and trees, a host of layout and visual encoding techniques, and support for animation, dynamic queries, integrated search, and database connectivity. Prefuse is written in Java, using the Java 2D graphics library, and is easily integrated into Java Swing applications or web applets. Prefuse is licensed under the terms of a BSD license, and can be freely used for both commercial and non-commercial purposes.
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VIZTHINK CONFERENCE 2008
Our goal at VizThink is to bring together a broad cross section of the visual thinking community. We're bringing content from each of the visual arts disciplines together to create a unique mix of content. Here's just a small sampling of some of the topics you'll find at VizThink '08:
* Moving beyond bullet points...using storytelling for presentations
* Aligning individuals using visualization
* Visualization in 3D? When does it matter
* Facilitation using photographs
* Designing compelling and effective information graphics
* Virtual worlds: future or fad
* Creating a global visual language
* Organizing your world with visuals
* Using visuals for powerful presentations
* Storytelling through comics and graphic novels
* Visual techniques for analyzing data
* Visualization principles for software design
* Facilitation through live sketching
* Can there be a true language with grammar and structure that uses visuals?
* Visualization as a brainstorming tool
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donderdag 3 januari 2008
THE VISUALSSPEAK IMAGESET
The VisualsSpeak ImageSet has been designed for people who want to do more than simple icebreaker exercises. Its a tool that will take your strategic visioning work, team-building, diversity training or cross cultural communications work to a new level. And yes, it can be used for icebreaker and group energizer exercises as well.
People who use the VisualsSpeak ImageSet generally fall into one of the following categories.
Coaching / Consulting:
Anyone who sells their expertise or helps clients acheive results.
* Strategic planning, strategic visioning, strategic change, process improvement, organizational development, communications… and more
Facilitating:
Anyone who facilitates meetings or processes.
* Communication, conflict management, conflict resolution, strategic planning, strategic visioning, strategic change, organizing, diversity, cross-cultural skills…and more
Human Resources:
Anyone who looks after the needs of employees.
* Training, compliance, personal and professional growth, conflict management, conflict resolution, diversity training, cross-cultural skills…and more
Training:
Anyone who teaches, educates or trains clients, including workshop and seminar leaders.
* Team building, organizing, communication, diversity, cross-cultural skills, conflict management, conflict resolution, personal growth…and more
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SKETCHBOARD TECHNIQUE
The sketchboard is a low-fi technique that makes it possible for designers to explore and evaluate a range of interaction concepts while involving both business and technology partners. Unlike the process that results from wireframe-based design, the sketchboard quickly performs iterations on many possible solutions and then singles out the best user experience to document and build upon.
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EMOTIV PROJECT
So you can control a robot with your mind, and drive a train using your brain, but what about your thoughts controlling a video game? Meet Emotiv’s ‘Project Epoc’ - It’s basically a helmet with electrodes to monitor electromagnetic signals coming from your brain. Then, it interprets those signals to control the video game you're playing.
This system can also move objects based on a gamers thoughts, reflect facial expressions, and respond to the excitement or calm the gamer mentally exerts, the company said. Neat! Yes indeed, but it’s not available to the public yet and there’s no word on a release date. We can expect it to be pricey though.
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