New click and drag controls make it easy to navigate through user contributed photos in Street View. Click or drag the silver orbs in the direction you want to look. See what’s to the left, right, up, or down.
(via Google Maps Blog)
Our latest vimeo takeover for Tostitos ‘And then there was Salsa’. You’ll have to go to the page to try it out.
Tweetz TV is a nice way to view all the videos mentioned in your twitter stream.
Cool site by Jung Von Matt that visualizes all their tweet mentions with an interactive timeline.
ManyCam is freeware that modifies your webcam video stream to give you augmented effects including adding a fiery trail to your movement, face-tracking masks and accessories, effects that are reminiscent of PhotoBooth, a distortion bar covering your eyes to remain somewhat anonymous, and the ability to draw on your video stream.
It’s augmented reality for your webcam stream. Just in case you were already getting bored with Chatroulette.
via Matthew Szymczyk on Ad Age.
With much ado about the state of Flash Player and the mobile web, Adobe has released some compelling videos of what its technologies have to offer here and here.
We mentioned Adobe is collaborating with Wired for a digital version of its magazine:
Android, Palm and Blackberry are working with Adobe to fully support Flash as opposed to Apple which has shut the door.
Currentcity, an initiative of Senseable City Lab at MIT is working with mobile operators and data providers to build applications that address city management problems. Using anonymized mobile phone location data they measure the patterns of human activity in urban environments.
Below is a video of real-time visualization of SMS exchanges in Amsterdam. Each dot represents a message sent. There is a huge spike on 12/31/07 during the turn of the new year.
Ever wanted to learn more than you probably ever really should about that random person you just met 2 seconds ago? With the upcoming “Recognizr” app for iPhone and Android this dream is now (augmented) reality. The Astonishing Tribe is attempting to mash up face recognition technology, computer vision, cloud computing, social networking and augmented reality into the world of Augmented Identity.
The app essentially works like this: the user points the camera at a person across the room. Facial recognition software creates a 3-D model of the person’s mug and sends it across a server where it’s matched with an identity in the database. A cloud server conducts the facial recognition and sends back the subject’s name as well as links to any social networking sites the person has provided access to. Voila.
Note: Prediction becomes a reality http://gspdigital.com/?p=715 . This app requires a user to opt in to the service in order to be recognized.
The March issue of BOARDS magazine has an awesome interactive cover by Theo Watson / Emily Gobeille created using openFrameworks, a free, open-source C++ programming toolkit created for designers and artists.
Hold the cover to your webcam & download the app to unlock the story telling experiment.
Here’s a fun idea by Bleed out of Norway for the Beyond Light blog.
Tweet your current mood with the #beyond light in your twitter message to change the light mood of the site.
Tweeting words like ‘calm’ or ‘aggressive’ will trigger different illustrations to appear, visually changing the page to suit how you’re feeling. Love this kind of stuff. Reminds me of We feel fine.
Some more screengrabs on Bleed’s blog here.
