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Speculating About The Visual Future Of Search Results: Apr 15, 10:49am 1 review internet, search, web, freetools
http://searchengineland.com/080411-103706.php; Speculating About The Visual Future Of Search Results via info aesthetics,in Search Engine Land by Greg Sterling
there are a range of interesting and relatively new general purpose "visual search engines" that are seeking to offer something different than text-based results. There have always been "visual" presentations of search results (and preview features such as Ask's binoculars or more recently Snap's plug-in), as an alternative to "10 blue links." However these newer sites are on to something that may eventually take hold. Speculating About The Visual Future Of Search Results SearchMe RedZee SearchMe
RedZee Search presented as images of each website. Not only does this do away with text it also abolishes the ranking of the sites it selects through a circular presentation of resizing thumbnails. Great potential.

Daily Cup of Tech & 35 Web Based Application Alternatives: Dec 17, 2007 4:09pm 2 reviews computers, web, freetools
http://www.dailycupoftech.com/web-based-application-alternatives-work-in-prog...; Web Based Application Alternatives via Google Operating System / Ionut Alex Chitu, in Daily Cup of Tech
Sometimes you just find yourself in a situation where you have none of the tools you need to get the job done. This typically happens when you are either working on someone else\u2019s computer or you need to perform some computer related task in an emergency. When you find yourself in these situations, I find it to be very helpful to have a list of web based alternatives available to me. This way, all I will need is an Internet connection and a web browser. This has prompted me to put together a list of applications and their web based alternatives. Now, most of the web based applications do not have all the functionality or options of their desktop counterparts but they sure are handy in a pinch. Also note that some do require you to create an account on the site in order to use the application. Web Based Application Alternatives Slowly Transitioning to Online Software I think that this SAAS stuff (Software As A Service) is going to redraw the way we use our computers and also our information and its storage. I hope this compilation of online tools is updated regularly it could be a useful archive. Remember all you need to use Online Apps is a good Linux system and Firefox. It's all FREE ! And you can get the hardware for less than 200 bucks.

Feng-GUI - Feng Shui for Graphic User Interfaces: Jan 23, 2007 5:55pm 33 reviews design, web, freetools
http://www.feng-gui.com/; Feng-GUI - Feng Shui for graphic user interfaces. in feng-gui.com
The way people look * The ViewFinder algorithm creates a Saliency attention heatmap. The salience map creation is based upon neuro-science studies of visual Attention, Perception and Cognition of humans. Or in English: What people are looking at? * The ViewFinder Heatmap service captures a snapshot image of the requested website and generates a visual attention heatmap. * Heatmap - from dark blue through green to red, describing the temperature heat of the image heated by human eyes. What Can I find with ViewFinder heatmap? * Which areas of the page are getting most of the attention. * Which areas are being ignored. * Hotspots - Highest points of attention. Feng-GUI

Try it on your own site and discover the dispersion of attention points...

Henning Wagenbreth: Jan 22, 2007 7:27am 3 reviews counterculture, graphic-design, images, web
http://www.wagenbreth.de/; NOT A SCAM via Rhizome.org in www.wagenbreth.de
According to a recent report, spam comprises 74 percent of all emails sent globally. Because of the overwhelming quantity of spam sent, spammers have had to become increasingly more creative in their attempts to lure the reader. Whether it's solicitations for bizarre coupling procedures or prize notifications from the Newfoundland lottery, spam's clever and not so clever attempts at manipulation play with the curiosity, desire and fantasy of the reader. As a peculiar cultural artifact, spam has provided ample fodder for creative interpretation by many artists. Recently, comic artist Henning Wagenbreth created the book Cry for Help: 36 Scam Emails from Africa, in which he compiles and illustrates the most bizarre, outlandish, and salacious of the genre of spam known as the 'Nigerian scam email.' In a typical email, the sender personally addresses the reader in an effort to enlist their help in an impossibly lucrative business deal. Wagenbreth illustrates these humorously unbelievable dramas in colorful woodblock and linocut designs. The artist culls his style from the underground comic culture of the 1980s as well as Eastern European illustration and decided to begin the project in order to immortalize and document this particular variety of spam, before its unwilling audience deletes it forever. - Ceci Moss NOT A SCAM

Once in a time you come across some real pearl on the web. Here is one such pearl. Great "Graphiks" and dark humor.

Minding the Planet: Minding The Planet -- The Meaning and Future of the Semantic…: Nov 6, 2006 9:36am 3 reviews software, society, web, change
http://novaspivack.typepad.com/nova_spivacks_weblog/2006/11/minding_the_pla.html; The Meaning of the Semantic Web In Minding the Planet by Nova Spivek. The Semantic Web is one of the most significant things to happen since the Web itself. But it will not appear overnight. It will take decades. It will grow in a bottom-up, grassroots, emergent, community-driven manner just like the Web itself. Many things have to converge for this trend to really take off. The core open standards already exist, but the necessary development tools have to mature, the ontologies that define human knowledge have to come into being and mature, and most importantly we need a few real "killer apps" to prove the value and drive adoption of the Semantic Web paradigm. Within a year or two you will see mass-consumer Semantic Web products and services hit the market, and within 5 years there will be at least a few "killer apps" of the Semantic Web. Ten years from now the Semantic Web will have spread into many of the most popular sites and applications on the Web. Within 20 years all content and applications on the Internet will be integrated with the Semantic Web. This is a sea-change. A big evolutionary step for the Web. The Semantic Web is the next big step in this process; it will make all the knowledge of the human race accessible to software. For the first time, non-human things (software applications) will be able to start working with human knowledge to do things (for humans) on their own. This is a big leap ; a leap like the emergence of a new species, or the symbiosis of two existing species into a new form of life. ... the true significance of the Semantic Web, on a long-term timescale is that it provides an infrastructure that will enable the evolution of increasingly sophisticated forms of collective intelligence. Ultimately this will result in the Web itself becoming more and more intelligent, until one day the entire human species together with all of its software and knowledge will function as something like a single worldwide distributed mind; a global mind. The Meaning of the Semantic Web Danny and Henry Respond What is the Semantic Web, Actually? Does the Semantic Web = Web 3.0? Article about the Semantic Web by Dan Farber
Nova Spivek is one of the guys I read to keep informed about what is going on in term of the technologies powering the net.

Wired 14.10: The Information Factories: Oct 16, 2006 12:06pm 4 reviews software, computers, web
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.10/cloudware_pr.html; The Information Factories via Arts&Letters Daily, in Wired Magazine by George Gilder. (senior fellow at the Discovery Institute) Eric Schmidt: "When the network becomes as fast as the processor, the computer hollows out and spreads across the network." Today Google rules a total database of hundreds of petabytes, swelled every 24 hours by terabytes of Gmails, MySpace pages, and dancing-doggy videos \u2013 a relentless march of daily deltas, each larger than the whole Web of a decade ago. To make sense of it all, Page and Brin \u2013 with Microsoft, Yahoo, and Barry "QVC" Diller's Ask.com hot on their heels \u2013 are frantically taking the computer-on-a-chip and multiplying it, in massively parallel arrays, into a computer-on-a-planet. The data centers these companies are building began as exercises in making the planet's ever-growing data pile searchable. Now, turbocharged with billions in Madison Avenue mad money for targeted advertisements, they're morphing into general-purpose computing platforms, vastly more powerful than any built before. All those PCs are still there, but they have less and less to do, as Google and the others take on more and more of the duties once delegated to the CPU. Optical networks, which move data over vast distances without degradation, allow computing to migrate to wherever power is cheapest. Thus, the new computing architecture scales across Earth's surface. Ironically, this emerging architecture is interlinked by the very technology that was supposed to be Big Computing's downfall: the Internet. URL: The Information Factories

Excellent article about what awaits us in Internet-computing. The story seems to go from mainframes to personal computers connecting to the Internet and ultimately to ever higher capacity big boxes where we find all the applications necessary to satisfy our daily work, entertainment and interests...

http://blog.outer-court.com/text-color/: May 23, 2006 8:51am 1 review software, web
http://blog.outer-court.com/text-color/; The word frequency colorizer Very usefull tool. Input a URL and BLAM have a visualization of the most often used words in a site or a text and then check how those words match together... Try it on your site. via information aesthetics the word frequency colorizer """ a colored map containing words from a user-chosen website, visualized in the context of relative online frequency. words that appear often online are given a darker background-color. words that appear often in the text but rarely online are given a bigger font-size. see also power of words & parsing the state of the union & power of words & document icons. """ URL: The word frequency colorizer

EastSouthWestNorth: The Chinese Photojournalist Maohair: Apr 30, 2006 5:07pm 2 reviews china, web, change
http://www.zonaeuropa.com/20060501_1.htm; The Chinese Photojournalist Maohair A MUST SEE. China in your face... in ESWN by Roland Soong """ The man has an MSN Spaces weblog called ?. The top post is a slide show for some of his work, bearing in mind that he is only 23 years old. On the blog, the self-secription of Maohair is: On the business card, the title 'photojournalist' is printed. But I am actually just a peasant who likes to play around with a camera. """ URL: The Chinese Photojournalist Maohair

news subject heat map - data visualization &visual culture - information aesthet…: Mar 16, 2006 9:59am 1 review software, web
http://infosthetics.com/archives/2006/03/subject_tag_news_heat_map.html; New tag heat map
in informationAesthetics:
""" a weighted tag cloud that uses a heat map approach to visually distinguish the most popular tags & news subjects. """

URL: news subject heat map

China Herald: Mar 12, 2006 9:32am 1 review china, web, change
http://www.chinaherald.net/2006/03/second-internet-revolution-wto-column.html; China's second internet revolution
True description but nonetheless largely ignored in the West. After all globalization remains a confrontation between national interests on the global scale of the world and in this game China is bound to win each time "top-down government policy and eager consumers find each other". WE better remember this...
in ChinaHerald by Fons Tuinstra:
""" ... China is going to give the lead role to the Chinese standard, the TD-SCDMA, leaving the European and American technology far behind at the domestic market.
... China has been for a few years, as a relative new kid on the WTO-block, behaved better than its European or American counterparts. But with the new government in place, new priorities have emerged and it is very clear that the WTO is not one of them. Who can blame them, since nobody else in the world takes it very serious?
... Two factors decide about change in China... First, top-down government policies define change. ... Second, an enthusiastic consumer base. ... When those two factors, a clear top-down government policy and eager consumers find each other, China will see its second internet revolution. """

URL: The second internet revolution
URL: China's third generation mobile phone