Feedoholic
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The idea is simple. Now that China has officially decreed that Internet Addiction as a health problem, we really wanted to pitch in and help with that problem.
Here’s the deal : As web users, we real a LOT of RSS feeds. Maybe more that is healthy to a good work dynamic. Feedoholic will help you curb this particular problem.
You can start by creating an account and adding in different feeds to your account and setting your limit. What’s healthy for you? Every 3 minutes, every 5 ? The choice is yours to make.
You can check Feedoholic out @ www.feedoholic.com
Bacon Chat
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Full text to be added soon.
Piece can be seen here :
http://procrastinatorstangent.com/351/bacon_chat/display.php
Webzheimers
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This project is a type of web application exploring the associative nature of the web through a historical representation of images.
This “free” or historical association would reveal aspects of the web often ignored and/or possibly hidden.
It is a continuous after effect of a visitor’s past. One visist affects the next as it is effected by the previous one.
It is a continuous circle.
The project uses php to parse the images of a given website.
These new images are then taken away all together and replaced by the previous visitor’s images.
Looking at each new picture as it appears, it allows users to browse through the contextual
visual meaning of his or her predecessor and see what other images come across through this associative (read: hyperlinking) nature of the web.
Project can be seen here : http://alexismorin.com/demos/parser/
the humanQueryLanguage
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SQL can be tedious to learn. And modern search engines have so many confusing options. Search engines are not supposed to be a part of the experience. Users need to go through a search engine in order to find a result.
How do you make the web EASY to search?
One thing search engines sort of got wrong is the “search” term. How about finding!
With HQL, you can search the cloud for any piece of media you like, and find it right away.
Here is a schema of how HQL works.
Try it now!
The twInternet
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Description of project.
This project, the twInternet seems only like a Google Map, with a few markers and pictures. Boring? Maybe.
The story of this data is what is interesting. The points represent places where I have been and took a photo with my cell Phone. The photos are then Geotagged and sent to a server (Twitter and GPSTwit for curious).
The points have all been physically visited, implying travel. A thing you cannot see from the data points represented on the map is that the data constituting them has also traveled a lot. It takes three different web servers to have these points compile and display.
Why were these points of data chosen? Am I a slave of my own psychogeography? Work, school, travel, play?
What about the device recording all of this data? What regularities does it follow? I don’t ALWAYS have it with me it must therefore follow it’s own laws.
When is the metadata recorded by the device too much?
I takes a total of three button presses to capture a scene and have it uploaded to a server.
The data that follow it is astounding for the effort required! You get :
-Time
-GPS Latitude and Longitude
-A full sized picture
-Identity of the uploader (via Twitter)
An anthropological analogy can be made by examining the points. Just like anthropologists extrapolate what prehistoric men ate. A series of points over a short span of time means that I was in a vehicle and not in by foot. Many points at one location means that this location was meaningful to me. Many other things can probably be interpolated from the study of these points and all of their metadata.
Persistency of data.
One thing I noticed while doing tests, is that the data sometimes is not accurate! The computer is only as accurate as it’s sensors. If the GPS cannot get a clear reading of your position and reads it wrong. You are just as lost if you trust this computer.
Another thing.
This data is volatile. Twitter can only supply up to 20 points. The latest taken as it were. Like the dream cities imagined by Calvino, these points only exist for an indefinite, but limited span of time. until they have been surpassed by 20 other Time/Location/User/Photo points.
Introduction
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So along I come to this class in which I will learn PHP amonst other things, which I already know.
What to do? Help propagate the love of this open Source Language of course! And also try to take a more conceptual approach to projects as they come at me. And finally, I will try to surpass myself in the DJing (Data Juggling, if anyone asks, I coined this phrase) that occurs within the projects.
There you have it, a FIRST!