The BEST Interactive Image Interfaces on the Web

To create this list we have been looking at dozens of data visualization, image mapping and picture mosaic solutions plus piles of descriptions. To make the list most useful we came up with the following criteria for the tools:

Should be online and actively maintained by the site owner
Should be interactive
Should use photos / images [...]

Live Labs: 3D photo worlds with Photosynth

A few months ago we have seen the prototype and some videos of Microsoft Research’s Photosynth application.
It was quite impressing and yesterday Photosynth has been released as a public technology preview on the Microsoft Live web site.

Live Labs is describing the software as:
Photosynth combines hundreds or thousands of regular digital photos of a scene to [...]

Update: Gaming Digg or is anybody actually looking at the posts?

In our previous post Gaming Digg or is anybody actually looking at the posts? we have shown evidence how Digg is currently spammed and asked users to read articles before voting for them. (our article was removed in minutes while being heavily digged by users)
Since then a few things have happened:
1. Digg support more or [...]

Internet: The Top 10 lies of Web 2.0

The Technology Chronicles at SFGate.com have a nice short write up with their opinion on Web 2.0. They have created a list of Top 10 lies of the Web 2.0 that contains the following:

1. We learned our lesson last time.
2. This is not a bubble.
3. It’s all about community and sharing.
4. Online advertising will pay [...]

Technorati: State of the Blogosphere, October-2006

Yesterday Technorati founder Dave Sifry has released his highly popular Blogosphere report for the 3rd quarter of 2006.
He sees the medium of web logs further maturing but still going strong with about 100,000 new blogs being created daily.
The report also shows that the integration of blogs and traditional media sites like those of major newspapers [...]

Internet: Reporters without Borders 2006 List of “Internet Black-Holes”

To initiate their 24-hour online demo against Internet censorship the international campaign organization Reporters without Borders has published their 2006 list of “Internet Black holes” - countries that censor and don’t provide free access to the Internet.
Everyone is invited to connect to the Reporter without Borders website between 11 a.m. on 7 November and 11 [...]

Gaming Digg or is anybody actually looking at the posts?

After quite some discussions the last days on Digg power users dominating the front page stories at Digg we today stumbled over something rather strange. How can people rate a story when they can’t even access it? And how does a story that nobody can access make it to the front page with high numbers?

Let’s [...]

Weekend activity: Have Fun with Ms. Dewey

You can say a lot about Ms. Dewey the Flash interface that Microsoft has put up to promote its Live Search web site.
It might be tacky, completely useless for a search engine, they could have chosen a different girl, a complete waste of time. It’s fun - maybe not for longer than a few [...]

Web: 100 million web sites milestone reached

Internet monitoring company Netcraft today reported that there are now more than 100 million web sites on the Internet. This is an increase of about 3.5 million sites since last month and the Internet continues its strong growth seen throughout 2006.
Blogs and small business web sites have driven the explosive growth this year together [...]

Internet: Web Technology Family Tree

Those who want to see how all the web “buzz words” and technologies fit together should have a look at Modern Life is Rubbish’s “family tree” of common web technologies.

click on the image for the jump