Find what speaks to you - - Visualizations

One phrase, but multi-faceted, as seen in the following links

Pier 1 Imports: Find what speaks to you -- The world of advertising…. sometimes it produces great ads, sometimes it doesn't

ART: Find what speaks to you

What Speaks To You,`www.alwaysworthit.com

Poems - Peace Leaves: Day 22: Find What Speaks to You, http://lilyshineboutique.blogspot.ca

Are We There Yet? « Fox Interactive Consultant

Pier One – Loved the creative ads and the tag line about ‘Find What Speaks To You’! It’s such a clever way to show how customers engage with companies they love.Take a look at Pier One’s latest ads that have been running this holiday season.

text-free user interfaces - Medhi interface

Indrani Medhi brings the power of computing to illiterate, first-time users in India.

“It really came as a very pleasant surprise,” says Medhi, an associate researcher in the Technology for Emerging Markets group at Microsoft Research India whose work in text-free user interfaces is being featured by MoMA. “From the beginning, we did not think of this as an art project. We just thought of it as solving a particular problem.

Metropath(ologies) -- Mining yourself

social networking sites / the way data mining is being used, etc, etc. it is all about: Mining yourself


Watch this video here

Semantic, Syntactic and Lexical Web Revisted

Australian company launches 3D Internet tool

Computers figuring out what words mean

BlindConfidential: Three Dimensional Web Interfaces

Conceptual, Semantic, Syntactic and Lexical Model

the meaning: Between syntatic and semantic information

From our previous posts:

• Semantic web search comes of age -- iCognue


• Labels: Semantic Web

10 Amazing Visualizations of Social Networks

10 Amazing Visualizations of Social Networks

includes:

• Fidg’t’ : Visualize
• ICCARUS: scouta.com
• looks del.icio.us
• Myspace attitudes
• IRC arcs
• Biblical Social Network
• Wells Fargo: Network Environment
• OS Relationships
• flowerGarden
• Power Players: Pinpoint and Predict

Info courtesy: BPWebNews

Sensory Information Navigation - The Next Stage of Web Evolution = Web 3.0?

• The Big Picture(sm): Visual Browsing in Web and non-Web Databases
• The Magic Touch(sm): Haptic Interaction in Web and non-Web Databases
• The Next WAVe(sm): Auditory Browsing in Web and non-Web Databases
• Text~Tone(sm): Auditory Highlighting/Rating of Text
• Morning Becomes Electric: Post-Modern Scholarly Information Access, Organization, and Navigation
• "New Age Navigation: Innovative Information Interfaces for Electronic Journals"
  

More from Gerry McKiernan @ Scholarship 2.0: An Idea Whose Time Has Come

Web 2.0 Resume: Do These Push Pull Techniques Work-Well or Lead to Cloud Confusion?

At the outset it is all about visualization of the skills in an interactive / dynamic and creative modes--adding value, visibility, linkability, and most importantly, display relevance as a doer (not talker).

"Media rich resumes should highlight multiple ways to contact you from the traditional phone number, to email, instant messengers, and social networking pages (such as LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook)." New Media Resumes, Karen Burns

• Skill Cloud Creator

• Resume Cloud Image
• Visual (Screen Shot) Resume
• Skills Based Resume


On the same shelf

• Web 2.0 resume app leverages SOA, Rails, cloud computing
• ThoughtMesh: An Innovative Scholarly Publishing and Discovery Model
• The Web 2.0 Résumé, By Marci Alboher

• Web 2.0 Resume Guidelines

Thanks to Meredith Farkas, whose Me in a cloud led me to all-of-the-above.

Semantic web search comes of age -- iCognue

• Semantic web search comes of age:
  

by Kambam Deepak, The LMai algorithm; Sums up links.

• SEO Ahmedabad : Learn & Share Everything about SEO

  New Internet Search Engine

  Hi Friends, I came across a very good article about new upcoming search engine iCognue. Here it goes.

  Sobha Renaissance Information Technology (SRIT) announced the launch of iCognue, its much awaited internet search engine powered by LMai (Latent Metonymical Analysis and Indexing), an algorithm for deriving the contextual relationship for a search topic.

• Google in sight, search engines are getting smarter

Artificial General Intelligence: Now Is the Time

60 minute Google TechTalk: Dr. Ben Goertzel - Artificial General Intelligence: Now Is the Time. Source, and Essay




Info courtesy: Self-awarness of the Net

Visual Search Assistant & Visual Browsers Revisited

[Info courtesy: nadeem.shabir, Talis @ YouTube adds Visual Browser]

OSkope Visual Search - A Fun Way To Search YouTube, Flickr, Ebay
Tags: OSkope Visual Search How Tutorial YouTube Video Images Flickr Amazon Ebay



OSkope Visual Search - A Fun Way To Search YouTube, Flickr, Ebay - Watch the top videos of the week here


"oSkope visual search" a playful way to browse for products, images and videos on Amazon, Ebay, YouTube and Flickr. You can save your searches and play videos directly on oSkope.


see also on the same shelf and aisle:

My Blog posts on Visual Browsing

http://swissmiss.typepad.com/weblog/2007/09/oskope.html posted @ swissmiss.

iDesktop.tv is a bright light in a sea of video conversion suck

Other Graphic tools that facilitate visualization: Browsing your FOAF social graph / Graph Gear and SpringGraph Flex Component: Includes: Thesaurus Roamer lets you explore connections between words and meanings, using thesaurus data from thesaurus.com; and Amazon Roamer uses a SpringGraph and Amazon Web Services to browse the “similar products” links of items from Amazon.com.

Organization of Knowledge or On Arranging Books by Color

Rob Giampietro: On Arranging Books by Color

When it comes to the organization of knowledge, a lot is revealed by the system of organization that's used. For most serious academic libraries in America, the organizational system of choice was invented in 1874 by Melville Louis Kossuth Dewey (or Melvil Dui, as he liked to spell it), who was an assistant librarian at Amherst College when his eponymous system was devised.

... One of the words that would have caught Dewey's eye was "colour" — or, more patriotically spelled, "color" — and on this subject Dewey's opinions were perhaps a bit unorthodox. Later in his life, Dewey sponsored several pamphlets about Ro, a language created by Rev. Edward Powell Foster in which words are constructed using a categorical system similar to Dewey's own system for books. In Ro, words starting with "bofo-" are color words, as in "bofoc" for red (c=crimson?), and "bofof" for yellow (f=who knows?). Doesn't exactly roll off the tongue, does it? Replace the color words of this lovely final line from Robert Haas's poem "The Problem of Describing Color,"

Red, I said. Sudden, red.

with its Ro equivalents:

Bofoc, I said. Sudden, bofoc. .. continue reading Design Observer: writings about design & culture.

And, an interesting comment by a reader of the above article:

This brings to mind a story about the late Sufi writer Idries Shah. Someone visiting his house in England was found by an associate in the library, trying to make sense out of the strange assortment of books on the shelves. The associate smiled and explained: "You assumed these books could give you an indication of Shah's tastes in reading. In fact they're there to give him an indication about you. I expect your eye has run along these titles when you've been in this room with Shah. You can take it that all the titles you passed over, or paused at, were noted by him and helped in an assessment of YOU".

Posted by: james souttar

Info courtesy: by brigmlt

see also:

Arranging Books by size

Books by size

World-Wide Web Map, From .ad to .za

Info courtesy: AssembleMe

Waiting to read the best-seller: Book Demand Visualized

NB. How long is the wait for these New York Times best-sellers at the Omaha Public Library [compare: a. people waiting for Omaha library copy; b. number of copies; c. estimated wait if requested today]


http://www.artdiamondblog.com/images/WorldIsFlatLibraryWait.jpg

[Source of the graphic is page 1 of: MICHAEL O'CONNOR. "Library may help turn borrowers into buyers." Omaha World-Herald (Saturday, March 4, 2006): 1 & 2. ...]

See also on the same shelf:

• Add your name to the Popular Reading waiting list

  Have you been waiting to catch the latest best-seller on the popular reading shelf, but someone else seems to beat you to it every time? A new feature has been added to the online catalog, allowing you to request popular reading books. Previously, patrons had to ask Library staff to request these books for them.

  If the book you request is available on the shelf, Library staff will hold it in your name for one week at the Circulation Desk. If the book you request is currently checked out, your name will be placed on a waiting list, and the Library will e-mail you when the book is available for you.

Mapping the Unmappable: Visualization continues to advance

Quotable quote of the year: 16 years ago today the word "Internet" first appeared on af ront page or cover of the major media: Wall Street Journal, Page One, the story about eBooks -- 29 Oct, 2007. Thus said: Michael S. Hart, Founder Project Gutenberg

• Researchers Create Map of the Net By Anick Jesdanun, USA Today, Oct 2007 [info courtesy: Dr. John Jaeger, Dallas Baptist University]
• Mapping the Unmappable: Visual Representations of the Internet as Social Constructions by .Adam B. King SLIS-Strategic Leadership in Information Science Indiana University Center For Social Informatics Indiana University Bloomington, IN 47405 http://www.slis.indiana.edu/csi

See in same shelf and aisle:

• Visualizing the Innernet or Visual Display of the Website's Infostructure
• metaphors and misconceptions
• Putting up Internet borders Nov 05, 2007 04:30 AM Michael Geist Toronto Star

A looming legal crises on the Internet, MICHAEL RIGLER, The Western Star

Blog Copying Visualized

NB. Copying and reproducing with permission, is one--I try my best to follow this path. But, do so without any permission, is another and concerns many in the blogosphere--see links, below, many bloggers are discussing this issue. I am not sure if RSS feeds' or any other feeds allow you go on with this for ever (without you noticing, or being aware)?

I googled, and the result of this search was astonishing (because my Blog's content was simply being reproduced word-by-word @ www.visualizationblog.net) And, the author / owner is replaced by: Written by admin on October 5th, 2007:

Information Visualization: Thought-of-the-Day - The Intelligent Metadata approach to ...
..akbani.blogspot.com/2007/08/thought-of-day-intelligent-metadata.html - 40k - Cached - Similar pages - Note this

Thought-of-the-Day - The Intelligent Metadata approach to ... - 9:12pm
Thought-of-the-Day - The Intelligent Metadata approach to information virtualization … The Intelligent Metadata approach to information virtualization ...www.visualizationblog.net/.../ - 18k - Cached - Similar pages - Note this

Much more...
The Human Mind: What Gives? (10.5.2007)
http://www.visualizationblog.net/2007/10/04/square-pie.../ (10.4.2007)
Visual Design as an Information Design tool (10.4.2007)
http://www.visualizationblog.net/2007/10/04/information-visualization.../ (10.4.2007)
Converting Browsers Into Buyers — Know Your Ecommerce Math (10.4.2007)
Visual immersion using Web Analytics (10.4.2007)
Don’t Make Me Think! Just use the Microsoft Expression (10.4.2007)
Browse articles visually with WikiMindMap (10.4.2007)
IEEE InfoVis 2007 (10.2.2007)

See whois www.visualizationblog.net

And, a reverse IP (@ whois shows, the possibility of at least 134 Websites / bloggers getting equal treatment....): Reverse IP: 134 other sites hosted on this server.

See also: What is Plagiarism? Don't Know, Click here or read here: "Passing off someone's work as your own is known as plagiarism. Individuals who plagiarize material deliberately are committing an illegal act and it is unethical at best! It's ok to use pictures and paraphrase text but be sure to cite the source of your information. Thank you. (Info from http://www.personal.psu.edu/)"

Bloggers Concerns:

• Guide for Proper Use
  19 Oct 2007 by Ashok kumar My content is written only for my Websites and do not allow anyone to republish in any website or Blog. Copying means you are stealing not only articles and also my hard work. Eblog4every1 - http://eblog4every1.blogspot.com/


• Blog plagiarism — Steal this blog!
  28 Dec 2005 by Mathew Is wholesale blog-copying wrong? Obviously. Is Google making money from the AdSense ads that run on such sites? Yes. But I don’t think that means Google needs to police the problem, as Jeff Jarvis and some others believe. ...mathewingram.com/work - http://www.mathewingram.com/work


• Further thoughts on plagiarism
  19 Apr 2006 by Beth If I ran a blog copying the thoughts and writings of a hungarian writer, only translating it into english, probably no one, not in 10000 years, would ever realize the cheat. Screeeeeeeeem. The more you think about it, the deeper down ...Grand Mental Station - http://confessionalpoet.typepad.com/grand_mental_station/


• How to Approach Content Theft by Fellow Bloggers & MSM


• PLAGIARISM - SHOCKING !!!


• what this blogger says about penalties.... etc. on plagiarism
  http://myworksh0p.blogspot.com/2005/11/index.html


• Copying blog entries
  12 Oct 2005 by Nishi Read this entry about "copying blog entries without permission." via, Instapundit.Nishi's Blogosphere - http://photophunk.blogspot.com
• Copyscape - Website Plagiarism Search
  by Alex Walker


• And Google it

Visualising Complexity & KM Communications Strategy: Mind maps

PS. The following info. is from Green Chameleon and Straits Knowledge Website.

• Visualising Complexity

For those interested in visualisation of complex information, or the visual power of mapping networks, here’s a wonderful resource unearthed by my iKMS colleague Kong Heng Sun.

• How to Plan a KM Communications Strategy

This concept map catalogues all the elements of a KM communications strategy that we’ve found useful, with some ideas for messages, media and audiences. Download the pdf version formatted for A3 size printing for easier reading!

Web Analytics and Qualitative Insight: Listen.See.Smell.Taste.Touch

PS. In the following is an attempt by an expert to demystify Web Analytics. While most often heard is why or the quantitative and that which tends to excite, herein is what or the qualitative insight--i.e., the other side of the coin.

"2 Simple Steps to Finding Your Website's Voice" @ GrokDotCom: byHolly Buchanan

Posted in Branding and Advertising Rants | Persuasive Online Copywriting | Articles | Persuasive Copywriting | Customer Experience | Copywriting | Relationship Building

"When you have a conversation with a human being (as opposed to having a conversation with a cat, which if you've ever owned one, you know how well that goes) you get a sense of that person's personality. The clothes they wear, their tone of voice, how they move, the words they use - all of this gives you insight into who the person is.

Every website visit is a conversation. Think about it. The web is an interactive medium. Every time you click you ask a question. You interact with the company or brand. What kind of answers are you getting? Do you get a sense of whom you are talking to? Do you have any sense of who the company/brand is?

I'm hearing a resounding answer of, "Not so much."

Your design, images, and copy all combine to convey your company or brand's personality. Of all of these, I would argue that copy is perhaps the most important element for conveying your website's personality or voice. As a copywriter, there are two things you must do:

1 - Have a clear understanding of your personality, brand or voice
2 - Convey that personality, brand or voice to your audience

Here are suggestions for how to accomplish this.

Step One: How to clarify your company's personality, brand or voice ...

Step Two: How to convey that voice in your copy ...

click here and continue reading

Visualizing the ‘Power Struggle’ in Wikipedia

"A new visualization Bruce Herr and I recently completed is being featured in this week’s New Scientist Magazine (the article is free online, minus the viz). They did a good job jazzing up the language used to describe the viz–’power struggle’, ‘bubbling mass’, ‘blitzed articles’–but they also dumbed down the technical accomplishments. I guess not everyone gets as excited about algorithms as I do. "

Converting Browsers Into Buyers — Know Your Ecommerce Math

In many ways the Internet has many similarities to direct marketing. It requires consistency and persistence.

Can you make money selling a $1.00 for only 85 cents? NO! Yet, this is exactly what happens at many Ecommerce web sites. Why? A failure to:

control overhead costs;
understand the cost to acquire a customer.

continue reading: Converting Browsers Into Buyers — Know Your Ecommerce Math

See also my previous posts:

Visual immersion using Web Analytics

Pay but don’t touch – Security, Satisfaction, and ...

Add Sense to your AdSense: Visualizing the Return on Investment?

Square Pie in the Eye @ Juice Analytics

"The New York Times—normally a source of clear and interesting infographics—produced the following graphic over the weekend."

Continue reading Square Pie in the Eye @ Juice Analytics