Manuel Lima: The Beauty of Visual Complexity

VisualComplexity offers this introduction:

Visualcomplexity (Manuel Lima) intends the site to be a unified resource space for anyone interested in the visualization of complex networks. The project's main goal is to leverage a critical understanding of different visualization methods, across a series of disciplines, as diverse as Biology, Social Networks or the World Wide Web. I truly hope this space can inspire, motivate and enlighten any person doing research on this field.

"Functional visualizations are more than innovative statistical analyses and computational algorithms. They must make sense to the user and require a visual language system that uses colour, shape, line, hierarchy and composition to communicate clearly and appropriately, much like the alphabetic and character-based languages used worldwide between humans."

Matt Woolman - Digital Information Graphics

See all 532 VC projects here. Or Manuel's whole portfolio beyond VC here.

wakerupper: Cool Custom Alarm App

wakerupper looks like fun. It's still in Beta, but I used it the other night when the battery in my cell phone was getting low. I use my cell as an alarm clock, so I went to wakerupper and had a custom alarm sent to my home phone the next morning. Pretty cool. In the wrong hands, this could be dangerous!

Does E-Ink Reduce Books To Kindle?

On Wednesday, November 21st, I posted on the Amazon Kindle – a new electronic book reader whose display incorporates digital ink technology and looks remarkably like paper. Michael McCreary of E-Ink Corporation hopes that consumers will finally give up the dead-tree version of books. To hear the WNYC - New York Public Radio interview, click the small arrow in the graphic above, or click here to make my bounce rate soar.

Amazon Kindle. On My Christmas List.

Thinking of buying the Tony Dungy book, Quiet Strength – Kindle Edition.