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Graph Gear, an opensource platform for Graph Visualization - now available.
Graph Gear, an open platform for graph visualization (the mathematical kind, not the bar chart kind), is now available. It allows you to create an interactive graph with force directed layout that ...
[release] Personal Zeitgeist
The personal zeitgeist is a small project that builds on top of SimplePie to offer a personal rss aggregator to the distributed individual. We might be doing a little more with this ...
Thirty Tools for Web Enabled Research (or webwares of scientific method)
The first thing I should points out is that this listing is about tools for doing research through the web, NOT about doing research about the web (although you can surely use ...
[graph-watch] Personal Pie
Contrary to what that pretentious mac guy will tell you, you can in fact represent your life in pie charts. Craig Robinson does so quite effectively. Also: Kathy Sierra showcases the
CHI - Design of Spatial Applications nearly Full
If you are attending or thinking of attending CHI 2007 this year, my course offering "The Design of Spatial Applications" is almost full. If you think you are interested in ...
[mashups] Lots of coal, but the engine is full.
Read/WriteWeb points out that mapping continues to be the dominate API used for mashups, and wonders if mashups have lost their luster: There are few surprises in this information. Google Maps is ...
Mousetracking for fun (but not profit)
Creative Synthesis is now set up for mousetracking. Here is some of the activity, you can see where people held the mouse longer (bigger, darker circles). If you want to see something like ...
Be kind to the web, please recycle your research.
As we near the target deadline for releasing our prototype recycled research project, it makes sense to talk a little bit about what we mean. Here is an overview of the project, ...
[teaching] Agendas for Managing Students
I don't care what anyone says, managing people is difficult work. More specifically, being a good manager, one that is respected (although not necessarily liked, at least all the time) is even ...
[Design -> Demonstrate] Make a kite and let Ben fly it.
Paper prototyping gets a look over at A List Apart. Obviously we think paper prototyping is pretty important. Shawn Medero discusses paper prototyping screens for design and user testing. Particular ...
Many eyes on Swivel
We've mentioned Swivel and Many eyes in passing on this blog, but both of them deserve some further scrutiny. Sharing has become a big part of the web experience. When ...
Textmate can do anything
Oh textmate, is there anything you can't do? I often use text editors to pre-write anything (posts, emails) because of some paranoid anti-web streak that i have. As I was writing ...
Yahoo’s Pipe-dream.
Pipes are fascinating. It's no coincidence that our favorite video game legend is a plumber or that the internet is actually a collection of tubes. Pipes are all about connections. Taking something ...
Photoshop 3ish Non-review
Just some random observations. (These are all from the osx version, by the by, and things could be different on the pc) I don't know if this is a 'just-for-beta' thing or not, ...
Legos are the New Media
How we classify and organize information is a hard problem. Old traditions, with large categories and awkward keywords seem to be giving way to more detailed, precise, but inevitably more complex methods ...