Did you know that NYTimes has a visualization lab?
Yup. What's up with that? Looks like it ties into IBM's Many Eyes project, which sounds like the most fun job around.
Yup. What's up with that? Looks like it ties into IBM's Many Eyes project, which sounds like the most fun job around.
Wefeelfine is more people having fun harvesting fun words from blogs.
This blog has just too many cool things. Check it out.
The "organizing the web" problems is near and dear to my heart. Here's an article talking about 13 great tools for organizing the information that you access on the web.
You know, I use a lot of the Googlereader. Ever since I found this video on the internet, which is an interview with Robert Scoble, talking about how he reads about 11 billion blogs a day and how easily he can do it with Googlereader, I "went" for it. I promptly put about 400 blogs into Googlereader (for one particular client),and then got drawn into another job. Yup. People like me need "channels." I will go into a situation, need to connect with every blog in the universe about that situation or market segment, do it, finish doing it, and move on. I don't want to LOSE all the work that I did putting this information together, but I don't want to trip on it every time I go to the bathroom, either.
I just started using Googlewriter. Ugh. What a un-useful product! What happened? Slow, clunky, ugly, hard to figure out, apparently has limited functionality... sigh. I'm off now to see if Nolowriter has gotten any better!
Question: Is Google the new Southwest Airlines of the successful dot-com world? Like, with a sense of humor and everything?
My good friend Janet just sent me this link. Check it out. It's one of the available language options.
Vewwwy cool
This list was put together over by the folks over on Advolcano.com.
Just found Fidgt, which puts the fun part of visualization into the hands of end users. And what's the fun part of visualization, you might well ask? Visualizing YOURSELF, in this age of the narcissist. Wheee!
From the Fidgt website (and here's a description of features):
The Fidg't Visualizer allows you to play around with your network. You interface with the Visualizer through Flickr and LastFM tags, using any tag to create a Magnet. Once a Tag Magnet is created, members of the network will gravitate towards it if they have photos or music with that same Tag.
This simple mechanic lets you visualize your Network in a unique way, demonstrating its Predisposition towards certain things. What is more popular amongst people in your Network - rock or electronic music? Are photos of buildings more popular than photos of sunsets? Based on how your network reacts to those Tags, you might get an answer. The Visualizer also shows how your Network compares to a random sampling of the networks of other Fidg't users, letting you see how your network stacks up to others?
For good measure, you can also search through the network for certain users, and check out their recent photos and music. This visualizer is just one example of some of the cool Address Book applications you could build on top of our web services. For a more detailed guide, check the wiki.
Sounds fun. When they can afford a better writer to describe it, I'm sure it will sound even more fun!
How can you not like a blog called Evidence Soup? Especially if you're interested in ... um, either contrarian viewpoints OR evidence-based measurements.
At any rate, it was through Evidence Soup that I heard about a new site called Omninerd (slogan: "we're so blowtorch"), which recently tested Mythbuster's results and found them wanting. I love nerd competitions (when I can understand them). As long as the topics are pedestrian enough, I can at least enjoy the first third...
From the Directory Aviva site: 12 important US laws every blogger needs to know. Check it out. And don't say I never told you...
This was referenced from Evidence Soup, in a post that talks about all sorts of dustups and fights that have been happening recently in this arena.
