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The Eclectro Last.fm Lovewall installation (video)

Eclectro Last.fm Lovewall (interactive bluetooth installation) from Wilbert Baan on Vimeo. Yesterday we had the first Eclectro party. As written in the last post I was working on a bluetooth/last.fm application. And it worked :) The Eclectro Last.fm lovewall is an interactive installation that uses bluetooth to scan for mobile phones. Visitors are asked to change the [...]

Analyzed what Twitter votes (graphic)

Based on Twitterpoll by Erik Borra I made this visualization. The animation is created form filtering tweets on content. If someone says he or she voted for Obama or McCain this information is stored and turned into numbers. This creates an election poll based on tweets. You can say Twitter is pretty much in favor of [...]

The Notification Homepage

This blog post was written for, and published on the Online Journalism Blog. The last year has seen social networks like Facebook and LinkedIn updating the design of the homepage to turn it more into a notification page: the homepage as a place where you can see what your friends are doing. Your virtual center of [...]

The Live Web is Always Right, Until Proven Wrong

Painting: Jan van de Heyden - inventor of the fire hose - Fire Amsterdam Town Hall 1690 (translated link) Two major financial losses have we seen in the last two months. Not because of the credit crunch, but because everything in this digital world is connected. On the web new information is true until proven false. This [...]

The underestimated value of marching backwards into the future

For an interaction designer not using the potential of a medium is horrible. There is this new medium with new a paradigm, new possibilities and you are using it the same way as the old medium. Let’s call it a transition period. McLuhan called it marching backwards into the future. The value of the transition For [...]

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