christopherbaker.net has an incredible video of his email social network visualization. One of those ideas with a really simple concept with huge impact that makes me want to slap myself for not thinking of it first. Beautiful UI, I might add.
Microsoft doesnt get many things right :) ... but this is one cool piece of technology.
Using photos of oft-snapped subjects (like Notre Dame) scraped from around the Web, Photosynth (based on Seadragon technology) creates breathtaking multidimensional spaces with zoom and navigation features that outstrip all expectation. Its architect, Blaise Agueray Arcas, shows it off in this standing-ovation demo. Curious about that speck in corner? Dive into a freefall and watch as the speck becomes a gargoyle.
Indeed, Photosynth might utterly transform the way we manipulate and experience digital images.
Check this out...
It's available for download, although I haven't found a fully-open source version yet (fingers crossed...).
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It's about time someone cracked the social networking nut.
Google is expect to announce a social networking platform later this week. Called OpenSocial, it will include tools to allow developers to create applications that utilize personal and social data contained in participating social networks. It is the first step toward putting you back in control of your online relationships.
Continue reading "Breaking Open the Closed World of Social Networking" »
In my last blog entry I spoke about Open Social - Google's open API. Here are more gory details:
It will be fascinating to see if/how Google manages to pull people away from Facebook and Myspace.
NodeBox is an amazing open source visualization tool for Mac OS X. It is basically a scriptable graphics tool, so you can draw things by using a really simple python code editor that's built into the app.
One of my favorite scripts uses the Web library to draw a graph of the hyperlinks between sites. It is rather basic in terms of its spidering capabilities, but I still think it has a heckuva lot of wow-factor.
The following hyperlink graph is actually for mediarevolutions.org (with a depth=3):
A little shameless self-promotion here...
I recently started a company called Socialesque with an old friend and fellow Media Revolutions Project member, Varun Nayak.
At Socialesque, we've developed a rather unique mix of tools to help marketers track user and social network behaviors for their new-media advertising campaigns.
Our tools currently extract rich behavioral data from web 2.0 content, as well as aggregate statistics about how content is passed among friends via popular social networking sites like Facebook, Orkut, MySpace, Bebo, etc. The combination of behavioral and social network analytics turns out to be a really potent combination for tracking ROI in online ad campaigns. (hopefully others will think so too!)
We're making great headway in our development, so drop us a line if you're interested in more information.
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