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A small summary of my Twitter messages from November - December 2009:

Allgemein (General)

• Great homepage with top-level talks for creative coders, designer and other artists
• Very interesting media facade project. Partly based on Adobe Air Sorftware
• Nice article: Media Facades: Fundamental terms and concepts
• International Symposium on Computational Aesthetics in Graphics, Visualization, and Imaging
• Very interesting designer: http://www.waldemeyer.com/ especially for the domain of wearable technology fashion. Also his blog
• Some inspiration for your wishlist? Physical Computing Ahoi!
• Very cool!! Real SVN Functionality for Photoshop with PixelNovel
• Wiigee is a nice java library for working with gestures and the wiimote. a port for ActionScript would be nice 🙂
• Reuters open MetaData (Semantic Web) Database looks interesting for webservice and information experiments
• Wow! The New York Times began to open their Information Archives! http://data.nytimes.com/
• Nice Geo coding API for Web 2.0 services
• Interactive installations wanted for the FITC Amsterdam
• Found an archive database for Media Art.  Maybe it could be useful during my studies in interactive art
• Nice Graphic about Qualities of Information Design
• Great slides about a good business culture in a creative environment
• fascinated by the Theremin Music instrument and tv documentation (deutsch)
• Yale University's Psychology course on Youtube. **OFF TOPIC**
• Holy shit that is the best parkour action I have ever seen!!  **OFF TOPIC**
• Ziemlich interessante Präsentation über die Kombination von Mobile Art und Urban Displays von Jürgen Scheible
• Nett zu lesen: Digitale Nachhaltigkeit – ein Konzept mit Zukunft

Generative Art:

• Interesting blog entry on 'Generative Art' via @Natzke
• Generative Art Tool - out of the box via @generatorx
• Ich bin nun überzeugt und werd mir das Buch kaufen. http://www.generative-gestaltung.de/ Visual Programming Lernen vom Feinsten 🙂
• Umfangreiche Artikel Sammlung zum Thema Generative Tools für die digitale Medienkunst

UX and Interaction Design:

• Free Sketching & Wireframing Kit via @fplag
• Great blog about interaction, architecture, space, user experience etc.
• Marking Menus are a very good concept for mouse gestures and menu navigation issues
• Must read article: Open for Business - Designing Social Interfaces -> degree of openness from a technical view
• Wow, very nice idea of a physical computing interface: VoodooIO
• Nice video list of Tangible User Interfaces
• Nice Blog and very good articles: Designing Kinetic and Organic User Interfaces
• Two great articles about User Experience in an Agile Development process (or in Scrum)  http://tinyurl.com/ycj5a32

Projekte und Experimente (Projects and experiments)

• Amazing sound sculptures from motors & more via @make
• Stumbled again about the lego Time Tracking thing. I really like this nerdy idea
• Should I really try it? http://suicidemachine.org/ a nice net (art) project idea
• Nice project: Ego search visualizer from MIT Lab: the project page
• MIT gestural computing makes multitouch look old hat - Interesting Project
• Looking for SenseWare: My Examples -> funktionide // LiquidWall // Poken
• Pimp your iPhone for RFID
• Wii remote for MAME on iPhone
• Nice experiment! iPhone controlled Arduino tank
• DIY accelerometer controlled USB gamepad
• wow, a 45m long multitouch wall via @jensfranke, @CedricKiefer, @memotv / Don't know if this useful...
• itsme the next generation of personal computing?! I don't know... 
• Very cool idea or app for an eyetracker approach
• Microsoft "Courier" secret tablet

Neue Technologie (new Technologies)

• Wow the City Engine Software looks great for Science Fiction and other Urban Movie Post Production stuff
• Transform your real pictures into nice drawings: Research Project GradientShop

Programmierung und Software Design (Programming)

• Frequently Forgotten Fundamental Facts about Software Engineering
• Uh nice topic for Computer Scientist in Media: Opportunistic Programming

Game Developing:

• Blog article: Best Selling Augmented Reality Games of 2009
• Interesting report: Indie Flash Game Development: A 2009 Year-End Retrospective
• A must read for all Flash Indie Game Developer: Badim's Total revenue from last 2 years blog post
• Playyoo is an interesting plattform for Flash Mobile and Flash Lite Game Developer http://blog.playyoo.com/ and http://playyoo.com/
• Adobe starts "#Flash Platform #Gaming Technology Center" (Center) via @flashforum
• Some nice and useful video tutorials for the Flash Push Button Game Engine
• Thoughtful article from @GregLoire on Achievement Design 101 via @mochimedia
• Nice Blogpost: Creating a Game Design Document
• Nice article: Running a Game Studio: From Start-Up to Sustainability

Flash and Flex

• Brain Computer Interface ActionScript 3.0 API library released by Sean Moore
• Blog post: 34 cool ActionScript Libraries by Sean Moore
• Great Voronoi open-source library for AS3 published
• Harmcrest is a nice Form and User Interface Input Validation Library and Framework for Flex
• Adobe #Flash and search engine optimization (#SEO): Techniques, issues, and strategies:  (via @marcthiele)
• Maybe the Flash Plattform gives P2P a new chance to establish in the area of network (streaming) technologies?!
• Tweetr AS3 Library 0.95 Released by @_sandro check out: