Monthly Archives: June 2006

Gapminder

By Oliver Wrede | Published: June 17, 2006
Search statistics about human trends through Google and watch it move with Gapminder. This is an interesting Flash application allowing to see changes of data over time. [via Tim Bruysten] There is also a video of the presentation. I especially found interesting what the presenter was saying about designers. He was showing this slides like [...]
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‘Ladies and gentlemen, Flock is on fire!’

By Oliver Wrede | Published: June 16, 2006
Paul Stamatiou wrote a long review of the first Beta release of the »social web browser« Flock. I have tested the prior releases (up to 0.5.X) and decided these versions are not ready for daily use yet. The 0.7.0 release (the first Beta) seems to be much better, but it still consumes a lot of [...]
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GK VanPatter at Zollverein

By Oliver Wrede | Published: June 6, 2006
GK VanPatter (co-founder of the NextDesign Leadership Institute) will be speaking at Zollverein Design School in Essen next Saturday. I can’t be in there that day, but I am sure here are others that would like to attend that event.
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The missing tool for the long tail business

By Oliver Wrede | Published: June 6, 2006
Shopify.com let's you create an e-commerce shop in minutes.
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Alahup CMS

By Oliver Wrede | Published: June 5, 2006
The CMS Alahup! seems to endorse a lot of the interaction design techniques of Web 2.0 applications (blind ups & downs, yellow flashes, spinning activity icons, etc) even though it appears to be a desktop application. The website states that the interface is based on Flash. So this application may well be an example what [...]
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An inconvenient truth

By Oliver Wrede | Published: June 5, 2006
After Al Gore didn't make it to presidency in 2000 he now fights for public awareness of global warming. There is a movie coming that covers this topic.
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Webmontag flair?

By Oliver Wrede | Published: June 1, 2006
Look at these two impressions from two different Webmontag events: Which one would you like to attend more often?
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