Just found a site – OpenPaths (https://openpaths.cc/), with the mobile application available for iPhone and Android, it can track your gps location and upload to the server. It can also export to csv, kml and json. You are required to register with username and password. There is API for future apps development. Besides, I...
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Moodjam is an online diary that allows people to express their moods and feelings using patterns of color. It has visualizations of your moods and other people’s moods. The portal is developed by Ian Li. I had the concept of tracking the clothing color as well as document my own mood index (number) in...
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Finally get the method in accessing the data in sina’s weibo (weibo <-> processing) , but the problem is they need to re-register with ‘REAL’ name! What will be the data about then? Share on Facebook
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This is a facebook app launched by Heineken, it requires you to grant access to facebook’s contact in order to grab your contact data and combined into the x’mas tree. All things are automatically done, what you need to do is to click to grant access and click to share with your friends. You...
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D3.js is a small, free JavaScript library for manipulating documents based on data. You can use D3 to generate a basic HTML table from an array of numbers. Or, use the same data to create an interactive SVG bar chart with smooth transitions and interaction. This gives D3 extraordinary flexibility, exposing the full capabilities of underlying technologies such as CSS3,HTML5 and SVG. With...
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Creativity: the ability to create Everything is a remix, from copy -> transform -> Combine. We all build our knowledge based on copy until we have a solid foundation, such that we can transform existing materials to add something new upon it. Ref: http://www.fastcodesign.com/1664618/from-edison-to-apple-innovation-is-always-about-copies-and-remixes-video Remixing techniques in film: http://vimeo.com/19447662 Share on Facebook
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Wolfgang Staehle (1950) is a pioneer to work on Net.art project, born in Germany and based in New York. He founded ‘The Thing’ in 1991, an electronic bulletin board system (BBS) that functioned as a forum for artists and cultural theorists. It is a successful web project first devoted to Net art. Since 1996,...
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On and on I have read some of the articles of jack Burnham, he is an art theorist & artist (sculptor), also an american writer focus on art and technology. He made a great contribution in system art: brief details here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Burnham In his article, he talked a lot of system theory and aesthetics,...
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As inspired by Mark Napier on his project – landfill, I started to think about ways to extend the concept, probably visualize the spam data. I looked at my gmail spam folder and try to copy the text into a text file and make use of my previous tested application- Many Eyes and quickly...
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Mark Napier’s FEED has been described as “a ‘non-information information terminal,’ out the pixel values of real-time data and news into a nonsensical, beautiful stream of colors.” The FEED terminal allows viewers to experience abstracted representations of the information that makes up the web. For instance, www.weather.com ceases to function as a tool...
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