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You can also find me blogging at the electronic music blog eclectro.nl and journalism blog onlinejournalismblog.com.
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Hi, hypernarrative is a blog by Wilbert Baan about Art, Media and Technology with a focus on interactive storytelling. If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed with Google or Netvibes. I'll post a few messages a week. Thanks for visiting!
A cognitive analysis of tagging
http://www.rashmisinha.com/
What is the web 2.0? Catching the web in a map has started. See Visualizing Web 2.0 and last weeks Web2MemeMap on Flickr by Tim O’Reilly.
http://web2.wsj2.com/, http://www.flickr.com/
Geominder allows you to create location-based reminders that stay attached to physical locations.
http://ludimate.com/
In an interview with the Volkskrant (26-09-05) the four females of the Swedish designerscollective Front brought up a solution in the never ending search for usability nirvana. The solution is quite simple and perfectly balancing on the edge between aesthetics and functionality. In the interview is suggested that creating a product that needs an explanation to be operated is giving this product a personality and thus is creating a bound between the user and the product. An example is the cd-player. A cd-player is (to most of us) an non-personal object. Front has made a cd-player in a glass vase. “No one knows how a cd-player like this works, if you show this a person and product will bind more easily”.
Below is a figure giving an indication to position a few products between usability / personality (emotional)
more about Front: http://www.idonline.com/features/feature.asp?id=1329
Last week I was reading a Wired article (March edition) about how the video rental service Netflix is awarding $1.000.000 to the person or group who can improve its recommendation algorithm by 10%. Todays popular websites use smart algorithms to determine what we want or might like. Google is famous for its mix and so is [...]
At the Next Web conference there was an overall urge for relevancy. You noticed it in presentations and startups. Unfortunately there weren’t many speakers that had exiting answers. In his presentation Robert Scoble made clear that for most new web applications ‘The first experience sucks‘. Why? This is inherent to how these new web applications work. The [...]
Since we started with the concept of EN we had a certain idea of what it would be like. Now we have the first working version the possibilities seem endless, but what is the killer application or function? What is it that gives new options to the things we do with news? In this post I’m [...]
EN.nl (and.nl) is a new project where we are experimenting with new media, users, technology and journalism. This project is an open project where the public process plays an extremely valuable part in designing and shaping the news website. The online news industry really changed over the last years. I think we’re at a point where [...]
Last week I did an experiment with a linear story and loading photos from Flickr. This week I made a second experiment using the same code and adding a map. I will try to tell a second story. About the story This story is about how fast urban areas are growing. These growing areas aren’t in the [...]
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