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We’ve just launched a new version of Explore on iPhone and Android (and coming soon to Blackberry). It’s simpler, cleaner, and has a few nice new options that piggyback off our recent Explore web work. You can now change your location (so you can search for stuff in nearby neighborhoods, or daydream about where to go when you’re in London next month). You can also set filters to match your mood - new for when you’re feeling adventure, places you’ve been for old favorites, where your friends have been when you want to be socially in the know.
You can find more deets on the foursquare blog here.
Shameless plug for Christen. They worked really hard on this one.
Weave for visualization development
Web-based Analysis and Visualization Environment, or Weave for short, is open source software intended for flexible visualization.
Asus trials Kinect enabled netbooks.
Computer company Asus has built a pair of prototype netbooks with built in Kinect sensors, which are running Windows 8. According to TheDaily, the devices have “an array of small sensors stretching over the top of the screen where the webcam would normally be. At the bottom of the display is a set of what appear to be LEDs.”
While Asus seems to be moving quickly with the technology, it’s not completely unexpected to see this being tested, with the Kinect for Windows device going on sale next week. Meanwhile Windows 8 is nearing completion, with the developer preview having just finished, and the Beta release (officially called the Windows Consumer Preview) likely to be released to the public in late February.
We have invented the technology of reality mining, which uses sensor data to extract subtle patterns that predict future human behavior.
These predictive patterns begin with “honest signals,” human behaviors that evolved from ancient primate signaling mechanisms, and which are major factors in human decision making in everything from job interviews to first dates.
By using data from mobile phones, electronic ID badges, or digital media to track these honest signals, we can create a “god’s eye” view of how the people interact, and even “see” the rhythms of interaction for everyone in a city.In a world where sensors, data storage and processing power are too cheap to meter how do you ensure that users can realize the full value of their data while protecting their privacy? Relying on the concept of sufficient statistics as well as on web-technologies such as xml and json, our system provides users with intuitive ways of managing their personal data while allowing companies to offer innovative data-enabled services and products.
Privacy preserving personal data storage (by theyvesalexandre)
“Incredible structures have been created within Minecraft. Why can’t we take those virtual creations, and bring them into the real world? This is our attempt to create a bridge between Minecraft and the real world, via 3D Printers. ”
(via Minecraft.Print())
Last month, attendees at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, pulled out their smart phones. Each attendee watched as the gadget displayed an analysis of his or her mental state—relative to others in the room—gleaned from data gathered by the phone itself. A special program, which they’d agreed to install earlier in the conference, mined accelerometer data to tell when the phone had been moved, counted time spent on e-mail, and noted how long they’d kept the phone unlocked, and where and when they connected to Wi-Fi. “We could point out ‘you’re not very active right now,’ or ‘you’re not paying attention to this lecture,’ or ‘you’re jet lagged,’” Alex “Sandy” Pentland, the professor of media arts and sciences at MIT who developed the program, told the audience.
Tour Builder, powered by Google Earth is coming soon. This tool lets you build a 3D tour of the places you’ve served*, complete with stories, photos and videos.
we shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us
marshall mcluhan, understanding media
Today, TED announced the winner of the 2012 TED Prize: the City 2.0. Breaking from their tradition of recognizing an individual global innovator, TED is embracing the concept of crowd-sourcing urbanism (an idea we obviously support at Open Source Cities). The organizers…
The NYPL Map Warper is a tool for digitally aligning (“rectifying”) historical maps from the NYPL’s collections to match today’s precise maps.
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- unlock your door with your phone https://t.co/kLhqXd76
- paul graham on schlep blindness http://t.co/FuwYz0At
- very well executed scroll-driven video with floating annotations http://t.co/5IE8rpEg
- very nice interactive documentary with abstract 3d topography as interface: http://t.co/HKGoNsKF
- instagram + soundcloud + storytelling = http://t.co/hWGFb4en = rad
- .@mannytan's brilliant, dynamic logo for the cooper union: http://t.co/4SQ9e4jZ #parameterizeddesign
- tilemill is a beautiful product http://t.co/GiETjhch
- mckinsey quarterly's interactive graphic about cities of the future (2025) : http://t.co/fs6jRG9A
- @michelet that looks great. just ordered it.
- TED fellow (and Ivrea alum) Aparna Rao: High-tech Art with a Sense of Humor http://t.co/tpM1S1MI
- martin hanczyc: the line between life and not-life (video) http://t.co/FAbGjiyM
- the gsapp end of year show microsite is a fantastic, photographic slippymap annotated with words, photos, and videos: http://t.co/zYUt1qDY
- cassidy curtis's graffiti archaeology project (video) http://t.co/pLXLEZQs
- What does it take to Photosynth the Brooklyn Museum? http://t.co/dnRZu0Op
- is mobile affecting when we read? http://t.co/1opa6m8l
- comparison of trip planning with google, bing, and mapquest: http://t.co/apx9mMWL
- twine will rig up anything with sensors, send online alerts: http://t.co/AMOd3nPy
- the sketchbook of susan kare, the artist who gave computing a human face: http://t.co/s7FMHhRK
- buy your own robot swarm: http://t.co/MbfPrsa6
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- SummaryI'm a designer who codes. I make models to understand things. Thinking by making has allowed me to switch fluidly among roles as urban data researcher, interaction designer, and independent app developer. I'm motivated by craft and execution. I enjoy bridging gaps.Specialties: interaction design visualization strategic prototyping app development parameterized designExperience
- Oct 2010 - PresentSenior UX Designer / Microsoft
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Interests:the notion of software as artisan/craft product rather than mass produced homogenized hooha, thoughtfully designed software, nurturing the hybrid designer/developer, bridging the gap between design and development
