Engineers Struggle to Move Mobile Video Without Ruining It
Intel, Cisco and Verizon are pouring $3.3 million into research at five prominent universities to improve video delivery over…
visualization
Articles tagged "Visualization"
Fri, 3 August 2012
Wed, 9 November 2011
Mapping the Republic of Letters
All throughout human history technical breakthroughs have altered the topography of human thought. Or, rather, human thought has had a freer…
Tue, 8 November 2011
Data You Can Dance To
The travel geeks at Thomson have created a data visualization you can dance to. They tracked the top-level dance genres over the past…
Tue, 18 October 2011
Geeky Goodness At MIT
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology may be the birthplace of the American geek. Within MIT, its Media Lab drills down to the heart…
Mon, 23 May 2011
Visualization Shows Where in the World Wikipedia Is Edited
Wikipedia is one of the most popular and highly-trafficked websites in the world, with over 3.6 million content pages. While much of the…
Wed, 16 February 2011
Visualizing the Influence of Egyptian Bloggers
Kovas Boguta, the head of analytics at Weebly and a guest author on ReadWriteWeb, has created another powerful data visualization, this time…
Mon, 24 January 2011
LinkedIn Plots Your Network with InMaps
LinkedIn, the career-minded social network, unveiled a new feature today that helps users to visualize and interact with their…
Wed, 22 September 2010
Rock 'Til You Plot with Last.fm
Joachim Van Herwegen, an intern at the online music company Last.fm, has plotted his company's music information against user gender and age…
Tue, 21 September 2010
Another Chinese Palace Goes Virtual
If you've gotten your fill of the Forbidden City online, move ahead a little in conceived time and a few miles in virtual space and visit…
Thu, 19 August 2010
Visualizing the Wikileaks Data
A group of hackademics took the Wikileaks activity data from the Afghanistan war and mapped it, creating a video visualization of the…
World Heritage Sites Go 3-D, Online
We've written before about how the latest technology can give us access to the remotest past. Specifically, we've covered the use of…
Mon, 26 July 2010
A Walk Through the Ancient World
When the first immersive 3D games came out, I asked a programmer if he knew of anyone who had used that technology to create a Virtual…
Wed, 19 May 2010
Current: Meme Tracker With Data Visualizations
While in New York earlier this month, I attended New York University's annual ITP Spring Show. ITP is a graduate program for…
Mon, 26 April 2010
ReadWriteWeb and Tableau Announce Winner of Data Visualization Contest
ReadWriteWeb and Tableau are pleased to announce the winner of the Tableau User Generated Graph Contest: Rina Bongsu-Petersen and her…
Thu, 25 March 2010
Huge Growth Projected for Web Tech, Software, Systems Job Market
Looking for a job? You're probably about to find one. By the year 2018 there will be 1.4 million job openings for so-called "computer…
Mon, 15 February 2010
Minority Report In Your Living Room: Gestural Interface Computers "Five Years" Away
If you never saw Minority Report, then we can just tell you - when Tom Cruise uses a "computer" he looks more like a conductor of an…
Tue, 15 December 2009
YouTego: An Addictive App for Self-Visualization
If all your interests and skills were reduced to a scannable set of tags and thumbnails, what would your ego look like? That's the question…
Wed, 7 October 2009
Invisible RSS Technology in Visual Feed Readers: RSS for the Rest of Us
Could a more eye-catching approach to syndication make RSS more accesible to mainstream users outside the geekosphere? Two new websites have…
Sun, 13 September 2009
Social Radar Tracks Domino's After Gross-Out Video
Like Santa Claus, Infegy's Social Radar knows when you've been bad or good. The enterprise solution collects millions of articles and…
Mon, 7 September 2009
LazyFeed: 1st Independent RSS Aggregator Declares Support for RSSCloud
Hot new RSS reader LazyFeed just announced that it intends to implement support for RSSCloud, the real-time element in RSS that WordPress…
Sun, 7 June 2009
Social Networks Around the World
Italian PR professional and former Microsoft Italy marketer Vincenzo Cosenza sent us an interesting visualization today. Below is a map…
Sun, 24 May 2009
App Mapping War Casualties Debuts for Memorial Day Weekend
Every age brings new wars, and every war brings public expressions of collective grief and respect for the dead. My parents' generation…
Thu, 21 May 2009
VocabGrabber Takes Any Text, Gives Language Learners Visual Aid
We like tools that are fascinating to use and make users look smarter than their peers. Visualization apps and sites rank pretty high on the…
Tue, 19 May 2009
RoamBi Turns Spreadsheets on the iPhone Into Useful and Pretty Mini-Apps
The iPhone is clearly making some inroads in the business world, and RoamBi, which launched today, is one of the many new companies that…
