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13 January 2007
12 January 2007
Visual-literacy
Visual Literacy is offering an e-learning tutorial on visualization for communication, engineering and business. I wish I had time to follow this course. Look at this amazing specimen of their didactic skills: a periodic table of visualization methods.
You can download the pdf version here.
As a pop-up in the picture: my all-time favorite treemap; cf. my article series on treemaps here).
(Thnx, Aatski!)
11 January 2007
Dexly, innovation and theft
Categorized list of Web 2.0 companies (olim Categoriz)
This is one of a series of Web 2.0 lists that lean heavily on the first version of EVERYTHING 2.0 - an Excel sheet that I shared about a year ago with Christian Mayaud, tipping him that his blog traffic would explode if he'd publish it. That's exactly what happened.
So, I don't mind at all that people use and re-use, mix and re-mix my list - without changes or adding little nifty 2.0 features to it. I'm open source. Databases like this make it easy for people to generally check what Web 2.0 is all about, to benchmark their own new concepts against things that already exist, to innovate new combinations between existing concepts.
Everybody trying to maintain a database like this is dependent on other sources. I've identified about 20 - 25% of the titles on my list through industrious browsing and other active research. The other 75 - 80% come from harvesting some excellent sources, that I've listed in my ABOUT 2.0 category.
What pisses me off in Dexly's case is not so much that they do not mention their sources (i.e. EVERYTHING 2.0 and others), or that they are too lazy to copy all additions that I and other 'listers' have published since the first version of my first list, but that they have added a Creative Commons license to their website.
UPDATE: Dexly's management has responded on the above with two entirely acceptable explanations & statements. Please read the comments.
This is a good moment to make explicit annotations to my most important sources, thus describing the heart of the WEB 2.0 LISTING ecosystem (-:
3spots - Very comprehensive in a number of important categories
Ajaxian** - Best source on ajaxified apps and sites, deep
Buzzshout* - Most valuable user input of all lists dependent on that
Downloadsquad - Deep reviews; focus on downloadable apps
Econsultant - The source of about 1/4th of my original list, not well maintained since
Ehub - Newsy
Everything 2.0 - Most comprehensive index
Genbeta* - Newsy, deep
Mashable - Best source on mash-ups
Momb - Most actual 2.0 info in the world; even report on stealth sites
Monkeybites - Deep
Ñblog - Newsy, deep
Programmableweb** - Excellent reference website, main source on APIs and mash-ups
Solutionwatch* - Deep reviews
Techcrunch - Hottest big news & gossip sourceWwwhatsnew - Newsy
10 January 2007
Sexycanvas~
View & purchase erotic art
Upload an image of your own room to experience the works in various settings.
Iphone
Engadget shows a nice set of photos. An Iraqui made some videos during Steve Job's keynote (hear the crowd cheering & grumbling!) and put them on Youtube - here and here.
Digg's Top Ten in Technology leads you to the best actual sources.
Who can provide me with a green card before June?
09 January 2007
08 January 2007
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