The personal bee seems to be a new interesting tool: The Personal Bee is a "discovery engine" that helps you discover information from a collection of RSS feeds. In contrast, client-based RSS readers and web-based RSS aggregators merely catalog your RSS feeds. These tools are adequate if you subscr...
Day of the figurine, pervasive game
I just discovered this Day of the Figurine thing, which is a new pervasive game project carried out by lots of relevant actors (Blast Theory, Frauhnofer Institute, the Mixed Reality Lab, Sony Net Service). It seems to be a part of the european iPerg project. Here is how it's describe in the IPerG N...
New design journal
(via) It seems that Stanford University is releasing a new journal about design issues, it's called Ambidextrous and it seems really promising. It's actually the design journal of the nascent Stanford d.school. It is a magazine for the wider design community, which includes engineers and ethnograph...
Information visualization/aesthetics at FOO camp
People interested in information visualization/aesthetics might be interested by the slide of a relevant talk at FOO camp 2005: 15 Views of a Node-Link Graph: An InfoVis Portfolio by Tamara Munzner. There are also cool videos there. Why do i blog this? these slides offer a great introduction to the...
Node explorer
Bill from the great website technovelgy pointed me on node explore. Accordinf to this newspapere: This tiny electronic prototype, called an Explorer, detects exactly where I'm standing within the 850-acre parkland surrounding Ashton Court, because it's equipped with an internal Global Positioning ...
Electronic Arts to move from London to Geneva
According to the swiss press + some discussions with friend, Electronic Arts is moving its European Headquarters from London to Geneva. It's a nice news since a part of the R&D team will be there too. Approximately 50 persons will have to move here (I say here because I live in Geneva). ...
Social sciences, computer science and design
An interesting article in the Financial Times about anthropologists and taking users needs into account in design. Very related to the one in the NYT I mentioned yesterday. Here are some excerpts I found relevant: The idea of using social scientists to find out more about potential customers is not...
Computer science goes multidisciniplinary in NYT
Interesting article in the NYT/IHT about computer scientists now moving forward by including other fields in their domain. Jamika Burge is heading back to Virginia Tech this fall to pursue a doctorate in computer science, but her research is spiced with anthropology, sociology, psychology, psycholi...
A blanket that moves
The Blanket Project by Nicolas Stedman seems curious. Slightly related to the dog who reconfigure itself into a couch, Ars Electronica will feature an interesting robot in the unusual form of a blanket that moves and reacts to the actions of installation visitors. When you sit or lie on the bed, th...
Diagrams of FOAF network
Just ran across these interesting diagrams of O'Reilly Connection Network using FOAF and Graphviz here. For instance: It depicts: 2nd degree of O'Reilly Connection contacts. This is a close up of the populated section of this graph. This graph was created by crawling the FOAF documents from my [the...