One of the biggest technology news this week has been the announcement made by Alasdair Allan and Pete Warden, researchers at O’Reilly, that theiPhone keeps a log of every location you have been to over the past one year and more. One could argue that it isn’t really news but it definitely is a rude [...]
Forbes recently published a visualization based on IRS data which shows where Americans moved between 2008 and 2009. You click on the city name that you are interested in and it shows you a dense sets of lines showing migration paths. Red lines show that there was a net number of people moving out whereas [...]
I wrote a small Facebook application that scans your friends list and finds how they are related to each other. It prepares the data in a format compatible with Many Eyes. You can visualize this data in Many Eyes to see the connections between your friends. About the visualization: The people on the left are [...]
Do you want to see how chatty you have been in the blogosphere? Is there a trend in your periods of lull and heavy activity? I wrote a plugin that helps convert information about your blog posts into data compatible with Many Eyes. You can install this plugin onto your WordPress installation and then you [...]
Do you remember the perceptive pixel video that was up here a couple of months back. Well, Microsoft was involved:
Bollywood’s famous lyrics writer, Sameer , uses the words “gaya”, “main”, “dil”, “pyaar”, “sanam” and “mehbooba” the most! Why am I not surprised! Translations gaya = went (used as an auxillary verb) main = “I” dil = heart pyaar = love sanam, mehbooba = sweetheart
