Archive for the ‘Gadget’ Category
Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
I'm not kidding... in the 3-4 months I've been checking TrafficLand.com somewhat regularly, it swear it has probably saves me at least 10 hours of what could have been traffic hell!
TrafficLand.com aggregates and delivers live traffic video over the Internet and on TV. The Company has developed patent-pending technology to ...
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Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
Sure, other search engines provide the ability to search for images and more, but it's really how you interact with that information that's important.
oSkope is a search assistant with a highly intuitive visual interface. oSkope lets you browse quickly through a large number of images and preview information with minimal ...
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Friday, March 21st, 2008
I've read a lot on this topic already as Google released a Visualization API for users and developers 2 days ago.
From the official Google Blog,
"Instead of delivering just one or two new types of reports, or a new visual map mashup, we decided to deliver a platform on which ...
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Monday, March 17th, 2008
Sorry to have to do this but I've got a proposal I'm writing and I just don't have time to find some new stuff this week.
I've been very pleased with the increased traffic to the blog over the past few months.
Here's a random 5 of the 20 most popular posts ...
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Monday, March 10th, 2008
Although I'm a fan of movies, I'm definitely not a fan of paying $20 or whatever the going price for theater tickets are these days.
With big flat screen TV's being affordable (thanks Costco!) and DVD's being released more quickly after a movie's release, what's the sense in shelling out ...
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Thursday, February 14th, 2008
Yes, Valentine's Day is here.. and here's a visualization with a perspective from the not-so-wonderful part of relationships... the break-up.
I remember when I was a teenager and how dramatic relationships could get and maybe this visualization can act as a sort of rear-view mirror for you as well.
Developed in time ...
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Monday, February 4th, 2008
The Superbowl was quite surprising this year.... the game was better than the ads!
I thought the advertising was a bit sluggish this year compared to previous years. I wondered if the lack of hype surrounding the game hurt the over-the-top ads I'm familiar seeing during the game breaks?
I found an ...
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Friday, February 1st, 2008
Although this post strays a little from the type of previous posts, it's some great info on how to actually find the information you're looking for.
I'm continually impressed by Google's methods of sifting through such large amount of data/information and empowering individual users to find what they want, however they ...
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Thursday, January 24th, 2008
Although I do enjoy my facebook account for the ability to keep in touch with old friends, I am turned off by the thousands of third-party applications which seem to only clog up a person's page with meaningless stuff like 'What SuperHero are you?", "Give your facebook friend a virtual ...
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Friday, January 11th, 2008
A little while ago, I found some new Wikipedia visualizations from the guys that brought you Visualizing Wikipedia - The Power Struggle.
Found at A Beautiful WWW, their new visualization attempts to highlight activity in regions of Wikipedia that are predominately math or science or technology.
We developed a program to ...
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