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dynamic 3D visualization of twitter activity spread across the planet

Posted on September 13, 2009, 11:06 am, by francesco d'orazio, under data visualisation, real-time media, social media.

GoodMorning! - Full Render #1 from blprnt on Vimeo.
GoodMorning! is a Twitter visualization tool which shows about 11,000 tweets collected over a 24 hour period between August 20th and 21st. The tweets were harvested to find people saying ‘good morning’ in English as well as several other languages.
The tweets appear as blocks and are colour-coded. [...]

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Status Updates: the corner stone of the ambient communication model

Posted on May 8, 2009, 9:59 am, by francesco d'orazio, under immersion, immersive model, real-time media, social media.

Tune in-to or out-of information. As technology becomes transparent, information becomes ubiquitous and connections grow exponentially, we are more and more immersed in an information scape. Rather than receiving or seeking information we inhabit information bubbles made of the sounds generated by our connections. Which also means, that we communicate more and more exactly [...]

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