Information Architects Japan 2009-04-10T13:08:48+00:00 Latest version of the web trend map. It makes for interesting viewing. You'll have to follow the link to see it in detail. But if you're very very quick you still have chance to offer your comments before it's published. 208 0 3 1 1 0 2010-03-08T19:59:49+00:00 21 461 http://informationarchitects.jp/web-trend-map-4-final-beta/ László Kozma 2009-03-26T21:43:30+00:00 WikipediaVision is an (almost) real-time visualization of Wikipedia edits and what part of the world they come from. It's kind of useless, but compelling viewing for all that. 207 0 László Kozma 0 2 0 0 2010-03-08T00:31:54+00:00 21 398 http://www.lkozma.net/wpv/ msnbc.com 2008-05-27T17:29:22+00:00 In line with the previous 'kebab' post, another spiralling 'reader' (is this a trend?) the Spectra visual newsreader from msnbc. More colourful and more interactive, and more futuristic - imagine this on TV. Choose a channel from the spectrum above and chose and collect the news items that interest you. Clever. Great name too, though so far have not found anything to link to that Blofeld chap. 164 0 4 3 1 0 2010-03-09T05:27:16+00:00 137 920 http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/msnbc/Components/spectra/index.html Icsid and IDSA 2007-10-18T01:54:27+00:00 Bill Moggridge, celebrated cofounder of product design company IDEO, is Chairing a quite staggering array of speakers and events for the Connecting07 World Design Congress in San Francisco. This is a biannual affair, hosted by the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design (Icsid) and the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA). Its aim is to play host to a "design firms, corporations, educational institutions, government entities, related organizations and companies serving the design community, big and small, from all over the world". As it opened yesterday (17 October) in San Francisco, and continues until Saturday (with some affiliated events rolling over to next week) you'll have to call British Airways pretty sharpish if you want to catch any of it live. That said, as it is hosted in three locations concurrently, (check out the website for the range of speakers and topics covered), you couldn't really hope to catch more than a small fraction of the presentations even if you were there, so I do hope that transcripts and videos will be posted to the site in due course. My reason for posting this is point towards some of the topics being discussed globally, and hope that there are useful leads to follow up from here. Just reading some of the presentation summaries really has me wishing I was there. I don't generally warm to conferences but this one seems un-missable. Sorry I missed it then. 111 0 Chair: Bill Moggridge 1 0 1 0 2010-03-10T05:08:15+00:00 21 826 http://www.connecting07.org 2007-02-27T13:15:40+00:00 This website is fantastic inspiration if you are into charts and diagrams... Sounds dull perhaps, but actually this site is not only beautiful to look at, but it is also great fun to interact with. "We feel fine" is a web-based art project by Jonathan Harris & Sepandar Kamvar, that searches weblogs, myspace accounts and similar social networking systems for the phrase fragments "I feel" and "I am feeling". Any matching sentences (or photographs in the case of Flickr entries) - as well as any other related information such as age, gender, and geographical location of the author - are recorded and converted it into a self-organizing particle system, where each particle represents a single feeling posted by a single individual anywhere in the world. From this opening layout onwards, you can spend hours exploring the very engaging and beautiful visualizations of the captured data. An arbitrary project maybe, but I enjoyed it a lot - and guess what? I feel fine! 50 0 Jonathan Harris and Sep Kamvar 6 6 4 0 2010-03-10T14:04:14+00:00 58 674 http://www.wefeelfine.org/ Amnesty International w3haus 2007-02-13T06:24:58+00:00 A great project from Amnesty International. It is a fun way to make some noise about a hot political issue. Also it makes Amnesty more modern - no more grannies sending letters but all kind of people doing something. Nice one. 45 0 0 1 2 0 2010-03-06T18:25:54+00:00 116 891 http://amnesty.textdriven.com/guantanamo/home/ BBC Red Redemption 2007-01-26T13:16:10+00:00 Flash based, this "game" sets you up as President and takes you through the journey that is Climate Change. Intensive learning outcomes (for this type of experience), interesting visually, not too cumbersome. I liked it! http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/hottopics/climatechange/climate_challenge/ 33 0 Gobion Rowlands Producer Ian Roberts Creative Director & Lead Games Designer Matt Harvey Technical Director Hannah Rowlands Project Manager & Climate Researcher Sam Morris Lead Developer Morten Fog Lead Artist 0 0 0 0 70 2010-03-10T03:43:00+00:00 70 890 http://www.red-redemption.co.uk/portfolio/climate-challenge/ Linden Lab Inc. 2006-12-19T03:06:43+00:00 I have decided to put my neck on the line and open up the online identity discussion... Here is how it describes itself... Your World. Your Imagination. Join a burgeoning new online society, shaped entirely by its residents. Here you can be or do anything. Explore an ever-changing 3D landscape. Meet new and exciting people. Create a masterpiece - or an empire. Second Life is yours - to imagine, invent, and inhabit. 21 0 0 3 1 0 2010-03-10T19:05:41+00:00 34 640 http://www.secondlife.com/