Siobhan O'Flynn's 1001 Tales http://1001tales.posterous.com tracing the roots & tendrils of storytelling today posterous.com Wed, 18 May 2011 06:44:00 -0700 New iPad app Planetary transforms music collection into solar system - nice data viz! http://1001tales.posterous.com/new-ipad-app-planetary-transforms-music-colle http://1001tales.posterous.com/new-ipad-app-planetary-transforms-music-colle

Excerpt from readwriteweb.com:

"A new iPad app launched this month called Planetary. It visualizes your music collection using the solar system as a metaphor and it's visually stunning. It also seems gimmicky, at first glance. The concept is that stars are music artists, planets are albums and moons orbiting a planet are the album tracks. You can browse and listen to your music as if it was a universe. One reviewer of the app on iTunes coolly dismissed Planetary as "visually appealing but useless." With probably unintentional irony, the reviewer gave Planetary just 2 stars.

With all due respect, that critic is missing the point. Behind the design coolness, Planetary shows how data visualizations will become the new interface to your computing experiences. Whether on your mobile phone, tablet device, or walking along an urban street, increasingly you will control how you interact with apps using data visualizations of the kind offered by Planetary...."

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Fri, 08 Apr 2011 04:34:01 -0700 What is Visual.ly? Time to find out. http://1001tales.posterous.com/what-is-visually-time-to-find-out http://1001tales.posterous.com/what-is-visually-time-to-find-out

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