Good piece on the shift from click to tap but what about swipe? 'The future of web design'

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From livingdesign.info - I think Amy Casey is the author:

"So what’s it about?

"Here I would define the two categories I mentioned above:

Clicks – conventional web design on PCs where interaction is achieved with cursor movement (rollover/rollout) and on mouse press or release

Taps – web design for multi-touch gesture browsing on handheld devices such as:
Smartphones – iPhone, Palm Pre, HTC HD2, Else Intuition, Nokia N900 etc, and

Tablets – well, this is the redefined tablet category that iPad created. This category is ‘now’ about devices that fall in-between a Smartphone and a laptop computer such as iPad, and all the iPad-killer devices such as joojoo, WeTab, HP Slate, Google Tablet and a dozen more here."

BIG LIKE: Twitter Opens Up More of Its Data - MIT Technology Review

Researchers and companies who want to track the conversations going on online are intensely interested in data from Twitter. It's been hard to get deep access to that information, however. Onstage today at Defrag, a Web conference in Denver, Colorado, Twitter announced that it's formed a partnership to make more of its data available for analysis.

Ryan Sarver, a member of Twitter's platform team, said that the move is aimed at helping people who are analyzing huge bodies of Twitter posts in order to perform sentiment analysis, identify trends, and other sorts of data-intensive tasks. "We haven't been able to serve that market well in the past," Sarver said.

Twitter already let people pick up portions of its data for free through several partial feeds, such as the Spritzer, which skims a portion of the posts moving through Twitter at any given moment and passes them on. Before today's announcement, however, those wanting more had to make deals with Twitter to get more data. Google and Bing, for example, made special agreements to incorporate real-time feeds from Twitter on its search results page.

That data hasn't been readily available for several reasons. First, it's valuable and makes up some portion of Twitter's business model. Second, Twitter already struggles with overload and wouldn't be able to handle constant requests for its full feed.

Twitter will open up more of its data through a partnership with Gnip, a social data company based in Boulder, Colorado. Gnip will help Twitter distribute the information, minimizing the stress that this places on Twitter's resources. Twitter is also granting Gnip a license to sell the data.

Gnip is starting out by offering three new feeds: the Twitter halfhose, which gives 50 percent of the full Twitter firehose, the Twitter Decahose, which is 10 percent of the full Twitter stream, and the Mentionhose, which is a full real-time stream of all tweets mentioning a user, including replies and retweets.

"We will provide more transparent, consistent access to Twitter data than has ever been available before," said Gnip CEO Jud Valeski. He says that all of these new offerings give much more data than was previously available to most people. He expects the Mentionhose to be particularly interesting to companies tracking trends, looking for influential people on Twitter, and monitoring engagement with a product.

Valeski said, "There is insatiable demand for lots of data to understand how conversations online are taking place and transpiring."

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Whoa! OK Go partner with Range Rover & invite you to dance & document your way through your city using Pulse of the City App

OK Go invites you to dance through your city

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Posted by Eliza Williams, 16 November 2010, 12:55    Permalink    Comments (0)

OK Go has announced a musical event taking place in Los Angeles tomorrow. Described by the band as a "big, awesome psycho-spatial geo-musical techno-sonic parade party", it forms part of a tie-in between the band and the Range Rover Evoque. And they want us all to join in...

Via the use of the Range Rover Pulse of the City iPhone app, which allows you to make an image of any journey you make around town, the OK Go LA parade will result in a giant digital sign being created over the city. As the film above explains, the band are keen that everybody around the world perform their own street parade and create their own GPS images, and then upload them (along with any videos you may make on the way) onto the helloevoque.com site from tomorrow.

"The idea is that we, OK Go, are using the world as our palette, and our GPS devices as our brush," say the band. Which sounds fun to us - let's hope the results are as exciting as that sounds. Visit helloevoque.com for more on the project.

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Looks like another participatory doc in the making!

Original post by Eliza Williams on Creative Review

http://www.creativereview.co.uk/cr-blog/2010/november/ok-go-range-rover-evoque#