JUNG - Java Universal Network/Graph Framework R.E.M. Releases New Videos Under Open Source License - ReadWrite R.E.M. today released 11 videos for the first song from their forthcoming album, all in MP4 format in HD and under an open source license. “Supernatural Serious,” is the first single from the band’s next album, “Accelerate,” due to be released April 1st. Viewers are encouraged to remix the videos and share them on the song’s YouTube page. The band will not be doing a Radiohead and offering the album for free, but this is an interesting twist somewhere in between that approach and the standard industry practice. The HD format will allow remixers to pan and scan within the video, but it also makes for a monster file size to work with. R.E.M.’s primary site is here, where you can – as they say – “Hear the Song/Buy the Ringtone.” The license selected for the project seems a bit unclear. I don’t know what to make of it yet, but I do know that a whole lot of people swoon over R.E.M. so perhaps this effort will find some legs.
GUESS: The Graph Exploration System, In Action Applets Applet demo (just the basics) Another applet demo. Here we have added a a toolbar that will let you control the displayed edges. Screenshots Movies Below is the video I made for the CHI'06 submission A simple animated gif showing a basic zooming and centering (1.2 megs). A more complex dynamic animation of week by week communications within a social network, colors represent departments (11 weeks in 20 seconds). Quicktime format (11 megs) AVI format (10 megs) MPEG format (2 megs) prefuse | interactive information visualization toolkit Main Page - FreeMind - free mind mapping software Graph Visualization Software | Tulip
Flare | Data Visualization for the Web No such thing as an OPEN lunch? We throw around the word ‘open’ quite a bit these days. Occasionally we try to be clear about our use. We all know ‘open’ is good, but we don’t all mean the same thing when we say it. Sometimes we think of ‘open’ as being transparent (in terms of public processes/participation), impartial (non-proprietary), available (easily accessed), and without restrictions. Open doesn’t always mean free. Many uses of the word ‘open’ have very specific meanings. Open system can refer to software which can interact via publicly available interfaces, but is not itself necessarily ‘open’. Open source is a set of principles for software, primarily indicating that the source code is freely available and manipulable. Open content describes published creative works that explicitly allow copying and modification of the information. There is a difference between public domain content and that covered by an ‘open license’. There are many types of ‘open licenses‘. Open terms can be temporary. Related posts:
ZVTM - Homepage Top Web Apps & Sites of 2007 - ReadWriteWeb It's the end of the year and so time for 'best of' and prediction posts, which are a lot of fun. Today I've been re-organizing my Firefox bookmarks, which made me reflect on which web apps and sites I've used the most this year. I encourage you all to add your own most used web apps in the comments. I've experimented with and tested many more, but in the final analysis you can't go past the usage metric. In no particular order, but loosely categorized, my favorites of '07 were: RSS Reader: Google Reader (with an ongoing interest in Bloglines Beta, Newsgator, and fav.or.it) I used to be Bloglines' biggest fan. One new RSS Reader to watch is fav.or.it, which is doing some innovative work including integrating comments. See 2007: The Year in RSS for more details on this market. Start Page: Pageflakes, Netvibes I use them both because they are fine products, well designed and always ahead of the curve in comparison with Google, Microsoft and Yahoo's similar offerings. Online Music: last.fm
IsaViz Overview News IsaViz and Java 1.6 (2007-10-21) IsaViz 2.x is not compatible with Java 1.6 or later. It is recommended to download IsaViz 3.0 which does work with any version of Java. An alpha release is available (see Download section), which should be as stable as IsaViz 2.1 except for the new, still under development, Fresnel and FSL features. IsaViz and GraphViz (2007-05-23) IsaViz 2.x is not compatible with GraphViz 2.10 or later. Several bugs have been fixed in the FSL engines for Jena, Sesame and the visual FSL debugger embedded in IsaViz. Fresnel in IsaViz (2006-05-19) IsaViz 3.0 now supports Fresnel lenses and several elements of the Core Format Vocabulary. FSL for Sesame 2-alpha-3 (2006-04-25) The FSL engine for Sesame 2 now works with version 2alpha3 instead of version 2alpha1. FSL for Sesame 1.2.2 (2005-12-06) In addition to the Sesame 2.0 implementation of FSL, there is now a Sesame 1.2.2 implementation written by Ryan Lee from project Simile. Java FSL Documentation available (2005-11-18)
Sexy Librarians of the Future Will Help You Upload Your Videos t A new poll from Harris Interactive was released this morning, finding that US respondents are more excited about watching mainstream, commercial content like full length TV shows and movies online than are about watching User Generated Content, news or sports video. While hardly surprising, I don't think it has to be this way forever. Who could help improve this landscape by maximizing the impact of the read/write web? Super sexy librarians, that's who! The Harris poll provoked two trains of thought in my mind. Finding good stuff online is going to be a huge market opportunity in the near-term future. From the other direction, though, as any experienced online media producer will tell you - there are steps that you can take to make your media easier for the right person to find. Check out this wonderful 3 minute section of an interview that Microsoft's Jon Udell did last week on the Talking With Talis podcast. Would that be great, or what?