Max Kiesler – Designer

The American Time Use Survey asks thousands of American residents to recall every minute of a day. Here is how people over age 15 spent their time in 2008.
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Let’s face it: do you really need drag-and-drop, resizable windows or sortable lists in your web applications? Websites are not desktop applications. They are different.

What you really need are tabs, tooltips, accordions, overlays, high usability, striking visual effects and all those “web 2.0″ goodies that you have seen on your favourite websites.

This library contains six of the most useful JavaScript tools available for today’s website. The beauty of this library is that all of these tools can be used together, extended, configured and styled. In the end, you can have hundreds of different widgets and new personal ways of using the library.

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Personas is a component of the Metropath(ologies) exhibit, currently on display until Sept 09 at the MIT Museum by the Sociable Media Group from the MIT Media Lab (Please contact us if you want to show it next!). It uses sophisticated natural language processing and the Internet to create a data portrait of one’s aggregated online identity. In short, Personas shows you how the Internet sees you.
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jqModal is a plugin for jQuery to help you display notices, dialogs, and modal windows in a web browser. It is flexible and tiny, akin to a “Swiss Army Knife”, and makes a great base as a general purpose windowing framework.

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Nexus is a Facebook visualization which creates an interactive image with your friends’ connections and their shared interests.
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“If you’re using Ajax, you should give hints to the user when a request to the server is being made, and you should tell him if something goes wrong. Gmail does this really well. Here’s how I coded it.”

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This awesome project was created by Sebastian Deutsch to visualize Twitter streams sync’d to music using HTML5 and Processing.

“We’ve created a litttle experiment which loads 100 tweets related to HTML5 and displays them using a javascript-based particle engine. Each particle represents a tweet – click on one of them and it’ll appear on the screen”.
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“With browsers rendering JavaScript faster than ever before, it’s a great opportunity to get creative with jQuery. This tutorial will show how to create a scrolling 3D tag cloud…it’s not as difficult as you might think.”

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“A simple visualization of IRC communication behavior: Who is talking to whom? Or, more appropriately: Who is namedropping whom?
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If you have used Google Reader, then you might have noticed the way Google Reader shows feed items, it loads up few items first when you click on a feed and as you scroll down to view more items, it fetches more items dynamically and adds it to the list.

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