11th
January
2007
“Critical Metrics takes a common-sense approach to recommendations: Critical Metrics measures critical mass. How do we do that? By tracking every rave review we can find! Our launch application is music. Dozens of highly recommended singles appear every day—Critical Metrics makes it effortless to find them, try them, and to buy your favorites. Critical Metrics aims to be the most precise critical resource anywhere, and we think our results speak for themselves.” (Thanks Magnetbox!)
posted in Music | Permalink |
11th
January
2007
“Our friend Jim Bumgardner has been creating some lovely graphs using data mined from Flickr. This one is titled ‘Solstice to Solstice’: ‘To build this graph I collected about 40,000 thumbnails of photos that have been tagged ‘Sunset’. I positioned each thumbnail horizontally according to the day it was taken, and vertically according to the hour it was taken.’”
posted in Information design, Photography | Permalink |
11th
January
2007
Aside from its overall greatness, this is my second-favorite part of the whole Apple iPhone deal. As Rafe at rc3.org said, “a bit passive-aggressive.” UPDATE: Here’s more from Mark Chandler, Cisco’s SVP and General Counsel.
posted in Apple/Macintosh, Copyright/TM | Permalink |
