I don't know how many of you here know what Fidg't is, so here's a quick introduction. Basically it's a common centre for all of your social networks ( or at least, the ones they currently support ). They use "meta contacts" to group a single person together into a single account. I think currently it only supports : AIM, MSN, flickr, Last.fm, and yahoo. Also, if you have one of the "supported phones", you can "browse through your network, chat with friends in a media-rich context, or easily post pictures to flickr in one integrated, dynamic, and next-generation mobile user interface." Amazing.
However, what *I* find interesting, is the visualiser ( http://fidgt.com/visualize ). I find it interesting primarily because it was coded in processing ( and I loooove processing ), but it's a very interesting example of a social network visualisation.
There's actually quite a few of these around on the internet. Digg have got "Digg labs" which have a series of visualisations which depict the user interaction with the stories currently being shown on the digg front page ( coded in Flash I think ).
And some more interesting Processing based visualisations : Universe, Mutualism, and We Feel Fine.
I love seeing information displayed in different fashions ( Like the pie sharts I saw this morning on digg, being displayed as arrays of coloured pixels instead of slices of a circle ). It can sometimes help simplify a drastically complicated scenario or collection of people/places/things/sheep. I just thought I'd share some of these with the rest of the class. They're quite interesting, take your time and enjoy them!
There's actually quite a few of these around on the internet. Digg have got "Digg labs" which have a series of visualisations which depict the user interaction with the stories currently being shown on the digg front page ( coded in Flash I think ).
And some more interesting Processing based visualisations : Universe, Mutualism, and We Feel Fine.
I love seeing information displayed in different fashions ( Like the pie sharts I saw this morning on digg, being displayed as arrays of coloured pixels instead of slices of a circle ). It can sometimes help simplify a drastically complicated scenario or collection of people/places/things/sheep. I just thought I'd share some of these with the rest of the class. They're quite interesting, take your time and enjoy them!
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