Trevor F. Smith: Exterior

links for 2007-05-30

• Google Maps walking tour of SF
  Awesome new flash interface for stitching ground level photos into a walking tour.
  (tags: google maps sanfrancisco 3pointD)

Double Ascension

I'm a fan of the show Heroes and one of the landmarks of the show (in fact the location of the season finale) is the fictional Kirby Plaza in NYC (nea, Los Angeles).

A prominent feature of the plaza is Herbert Bayer's sculpture, "Double Ascension", which I took a few minutes to model for my Ogoglio spaces:

It's surprisingly fun to walk my online body to the top of this place that is both actual and virtual, in LA and NYC, on Earth and on TV, in pictures and now in Ogoglio.

Color

Mine is a colorful city.

links for 2007-05-22

• Outsmart OS3D Demo - 3D Flex UI Room
  Anyone who thinks the web browser won't be the client to most 3D worlds within the decade should check this out.
  (tags: 3space 3pointD)

links for 2007-05-21

• NYT: Why Work Is Looking More Like a Video Game
  MSM are taking note of Raph and Jane M's evangelism of game design in the workplace.
  (tags: workgame entellium seriosity)
• NYT: Estonia Computers Blitzed, Possibly by the Russians
  Millions of Windows PCs in botnets are used for first national scale denial of service attack.

A tough row to hoe

Graphical excellence is that which gives to the viewer the greatest number of ideas in the shortest time with the least ink in the smallest space. - Edward Tufte

links for 2007-05-15

• A Movie Tries to Deliver a Branded Software Experience
  The folks at Jackson Fish Market are working a series of articles on Branded Software, including this short about the tree planting online space created to promote the movie Evan Almighty. Next year it will be an Ogoglio space.
  (tags: 3space brand)
• Branded Software Experience Index
  Jackson Fish Market's index to their branded software series.
  (tags: 3space brand)
• Jott
  I didn't want to like Jott, but I've completely stopped leaving myself voicemails from the road because voice to email is just awesome. jott->blog->rss->ogoglio is next.
  (tags: jott voice)

links for 2007-05-13

• Processing
  Seriously neat art/geek toolkit for da web.
  (tags: processing artgeek)

Well, then

This article shows a Stamen Design data visualization:

Funny, that looks a hell of a lot like the Orbital Browser I worked on at PARC:

links for 2007-05-12

• Zen of Design» Designing Cozy Spaces
  Damion Schubert's take on virtual space sizes.
  (tags: cozyspace ogoglio)
• Three Virtual World Rules: Be Excellent, or Else
  Yoick tells us how to avoid the lindentrap.
  (tags: secondlife)