During the Next Web conference about 20 entrepreneurs stepped into AtlasVenture's elevator to pitch an investment in their companies. Watch the video here. Fun.
08 July 2006
The Men & Their Plan
Microsoft IDs
I already wondered how & when Microsoft would the merge Vista and Live concepts with a digital ID. This article says it all.
Peopleaggregator
Parlano
Posted by Bob Stumpel at 12:02 0 comments
Labels: COLLABORATING 2.0, COMMUNICATING 2.0, DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT 2.0, ORGANIZING 2.0, PRODUCTIVITY 2.0, WEB 2.0
05 July 2006
Roughunderbelly
Posted by Bob Stumpel at 17:05 0 comments
Labels: ORGANIZING 2.0, PRODUCTIVITY 2.0, TASKS 2.0, WEB 2.0
Rightcart
Posted by Bob Stumpel at 16:47 0 comments
Labels: 3D 2.0, CONTENT COMMERCE 2.0, ECOMMERCE 2.0, WEB 2.0
04 July 2006
Treemap***** (11) - Smartmoneymarketmap*
Presenting approx. 500 stocks in 1 view.
Smartmoney is probably using the University of Maryland software license of Treemap, but further licensing this application.
Posted by Bob Stumpel at 02:15 0 comments
Labels: BRILLIANT 2.0, DATABASE 2.0, FINANCE 2.0, STOCKS 2.0, TREEMAPS 2.0, VISUALIZATION 2.0, WEB 2.0
Perspectives*** - Visualizes spatio-temporaly the places we inhabit
Flickrgraph** - Visualize your network on Flickr
Visualize your network on Flickr. By the Genius of Marcos Weskamp.
This one made a splash in the 2.0-sphere when it was launched, and has been in my longlists for long.
Posted by Bob Stumpel at 00:51 0 comments
Labels: BRILLIANT 2.0, COMMUNITY 2.0, DATABASE 2.0, VISUALIZATION 2.0, WEB 2.0
Treemap***** (10) - Purchasing Performance Management
Posted by Bob Stumpel at 00:42 0 comments
Labels: BRILLIANT 2.0, DATABASE 2.0, TREEMAPS 2.0, VISUALIZATION 2.0, WEB 2.0
Treemap***** (9) - Salesforce Management*
Posted by Bob Stumpel at 00:39 0 comments
Labels: BRILLIANT 2.0, CRM 2.0, DATABASE 2.0, TREEMAPS 2.0, VISUALIZATION 2.0, WEB 2.0
Treemap***** (8) - Process & Quality Management*
Honeycomb Process and Quality Management application by Hive Group.
Posted by Bob Stumpel at 00:36 0 comments
Labels: BRILLIANT 2.0, DATABASE 2.0, TREEMAPS 2.0, VISUALIZATION 2.0, WEB 2.0
Treemap***** (7) - Equipment Readiness Information Tool**
Honeycomb Marine Corps Equipment Readiness Information Tool (MERIT; pdf only) by Hive Group.
Posted by Bob Stumpel at 00:30 0 comments
Labels: BRILLIANT 2.0, TREEMAPS 2.0, VISUALIZATION 2.0, WEB 2.0
Treemap***** (6) - World Population Map
Honeycomb World Population Map (Wikipedia mash-up) by Hive Group.
Countries' population, densities and areas at one glance.
Posted by Bob Stumpel at 00:26 0 comments
Labels: BRILLIANT 2.0, DATABASE 2.0, GEO 2.0, TREEMAPS 2.0, VISUALIZATION 2.0, WEB 2.0
Treemap***** (5) - Peets Coffee & Tea Selector*
Honeycomb Product Comparison Demo for coffee and tea selection by Hive Group.
Posted by Bob Stumpel at 00:18 0 comments
Labels: BRILLIANT 2.0, DATABASE 2.0, RETAIL 2.0, TREEMAPS 2.0, VISUALIZATION 2.0, WEB 2.0
Treemap***** (4) - Amazon Demo by Hive****
Honeycomb Amazon demo by Hive Group. The illustration shows an example with "All Digital Cameras". Gives access to 1000's of products on a single screen. Many more samples to see here.
Posted by Bob Stumpel at 00:11 0 comments
Labels: BRILLIANT 2.0, DATABASE 2.0, ECOMMERCE 2.0, TREEMAPS 2.0, VISUALIZATION 2.0, WEB 2.0
Treemap***** (3) - iTunes Demo by Hive***
Hive Group tagged their version of Treemap with the brand name Honeycomb. They offer several demos - B2B and B2C - on their website.
In this mash-up demo you can track the iTunes Top 100 songs as they move up and down the charts. Live!
Posted by Bob Stumpel at 00:01 0 comments
Labels: AUDIO 2.0, BRILLIANT 2.0, DATABASE 2.0, MUSIC 2.0, TREEMAPS 2.0, VISUALIZATION 2.0, WEB 2.0
03 July 2006
Treemap***** (2) - Newsmap*****
This is without a doubt one of the very best GUIs I've ever laid my eyes on. It offers a one glance view of Google news, and let's you play with the news' categories, geography, and age.
Marcos Weskamp's design genius becomes clear if you compare his design with a variation delivered by Hives Group for NewsIsFree (maybe a strange name for a company delivering premium news services...):
Watch out - this demo seems a bit buggy.
Posted by Bob Stumpel at 23:44 0 comments
Labels: BRILLIANT 2.0, DATABASE 2.0, NEWS 2.0, TREEMAPS 2.0, VISUALIZATION 2.0, WEB 2.0
Treemap***** (1) - A brilliant GUI to huge databases
One of the best ways to look at complicated data is the Treemap, a concept by developed by Ben Shneiderman (during the 1990s), that deserves a lot more attention than it has gotten so far. We probably wouldn't be drowning in tag clouds nowadays, if the Treemap had received a little more recognition in Web 2.0 circles. It seems that the original code is still nurtured at the University of Maryland, where it's available for licensing.
If Shneiderman is Treemap's god, than the brilliant designer Marcos Weskamp is Treemap's prophet, and the Hive Group are Treemap's evangelists. Although the concept clearly delivers huge advantages in delivering superior GUIs to huge databases, none of the people or entities mentioned above have been very successful in bringing it to the market.
Developments have been slow or non-existent since 2004. Marcos Weskamp doesn't seem to worry about this at all. He went back to art school, and hasn't been very active on the web for the past 2 years. Shneiderman now is a technical advisor for the Hive Group, but Hive don't seem to be extremely successful in selling the concept since I first spotted them (I remember they had many more interesting demos on their website 2 years ago).
In the next postings I will go through the published portfolios of the people and entities mentioned above.
By the way - don't miss this dynamic animation of variant Treemap grids.
Posted by Bob Stumpel at 23:27 0 comments
Labels: BRILLIANT 2.0, DATA 2.0, DATABASE 2.0, TREEMAPS 2.0, VISUALIZATION 2.0, WEB 2.0