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A small summary of my Twitter messages from Januar - February 2010:

Allgemein (General)

• Alexis Milant is a great video artist. Especially this video I like very much
• RT @golan: Just discovered that Ars Electronica is putting their archives on Vimeo
• Nice list of demos and good points for #creative #visual #flash prorgramming. Thx to @mrdoob http://mrdoob.com/blog/post/685
• Sehr coole Auswahl von Videokunstwerken - Arte Video Art Night Marathon
• Funny interactive (media) installation Moving Mario thx @Bager for the link
• Nice Project. The Sand-Printer via @make http://tinyurl.com/y8fhz4f
• Interesting Master Program: European Masters in Ludic Interfaces
• One of the best stage-based animations I have seen yet. Chunky Move's Mortal Engine
• Interesting book puplished: Interactive Architecture Book Homepage
• iFreeTablet the free alternative from ipad much cheaper and all open source. http://www.ifreetablet.com/ via @mcanet
• Open source hardware - feature story in Wired - In the Next Industrial Revolution, Atoms Are the New Bits
• Cool Java-based circuit simulator. a good helper for physical computing experiments
• Hm is this an interesting master study or just a trend study for getting new students: MA Social Media
• puredyne - USB-bootable GNU/LINUX OS for creative media via @shervinafshar
• Sehr guter und informativer Artikel zum Thema #Wissensmanagement (3.0). Nur der Schluss ist ein wenig schwach..

Generative Art:

• Ich bin nun überzeugt und werd mir das Buch kaufen. http://www.generative-gestaltung.de/ Visual Programming Lernen vom Feinsten
• RT @rafiqelmansy Fractal Art: Inspiration with Equations http://bit.ly/8UblDj
• Really great generative art experiment - Alice in Wonderland, which worked with text as material and flash

Info Design and Visualization

• RT @grumplet: 7500 words by Henry Hadlow in one image. Reviews Eigenfactor.org, Photosynth, wk.com, SeadragonCool info design project: Knowledge Cartography http://www.knowledgecartography.org/ via MStäbler,other nice project http://eigenfactor.org/
• COMPUTATIONAL INFORMATION DESIGN (PHD Thesis) or Book from Ben Fry available as a PDF download
• Choosing Colours for Data Visualization (.pdf) - prostheticknowledge
• RT Upcoming later this year: O'Reilly's "Beautiful Visualization" http://is.gd/6Zlt9 featuring a chapter on "X by Y" http://is.gd/6ZlCr

UX and Interaction Design:

• RT interaction design history slideshow (via @ighfggmuend)
• PhD Thesis: An Exploration of Multi-finger Interaction on Multi-touch Surfaces by Shahzad Malik as a PDF Download
• Nice list and maybe useful for some research papers... A DIRECTORY OF SOURCES FOR INPUT TECHNOLOGIES by Bill Buxton
• Nice system!! MultiTouch Cell is the first multitouch LCD for fully scalable display arrays
• Again,I highly recommend this book for Mobile Interface Design.It is old but many interface concepts are still upToDate
• Now I am convinced about the advantages of http://sikuli.csail.mit.edu/ for Interaction Designer. Rapid Prototyping Tool for Remote Devices
• Disappearing mobile devices - a paper and concept by Hasso Plattner Institut Potsdam
• 50 Free UI and Web Design Wireframing Kits, Resources and Source Files via @smashingmag
• RT @fuelinterface Amazing Alternative Interfaces That Will Change Our Lives | Fuel Your Interface ->Interesting overview
• scalable actuated shape display from MIT's Tangible Media Group
• Physical Gestures to Document Design Research
• Dan Saffer's Talk: Researching and Designing Interactive Gestures

Projekte und Experimente (Projects and experiments)

• Nice Project from MIT: High Low Tech http://hlt.media.mit.edu/
• Wearable Technologies and other High and Low Tech Stuff from the MIT via @make interesting video report!
• Secret handshake of the future from the tangible Interface class of the MIT via @make
• RT  “Notput” is an interactive music table with tangible notes, that combines all three senses of hearing, sight and touch:
• LED Galaxy Dress by CuteCircuit is World’s Largest Wearable Display
• Great use of Augmented Reality! LEGO Manual With ARToolKit
• That is a really crazy map-location-based mash up demo - augmented-reality maps by microsoft
• EKG-controlled Game of Life hoodie via @make
• TouchDesigner, an authoring tool for building interactive 3D art, visualizations

Neue Technologie (new Technologies)

• A Dynamic Facade
• Nice examples and nice #augmented reality SDK for common #mobile Devices http://tinyurl.com/yz6hny3 | SDK www.metaio.com/products/mobile/

Programmierung und Software Design (Programming)

• Let Arduino communicate with each other. Arduino control the other Arduino.Maybe the new Adruino Virus?!via @make
• Xuggler is the easy way to uncompress, modify, and re-compress any media file (or stream) from Java to a red5 server http://www.xuggle.com/
• Live Screencast in Flash mit Red5 und Java Streaming Library
• VH Java Screen Capture SDK looks nice... Hopefully it will not become so expensive..
• Freeware: VH Screen Capture Driver supports C++, C#, Java, Delphi, etc

Game Developing:

• Playyoo is an interesting plattform for Flash Mobile and Flash Lite Game Developer http://blog.playyoo.com/ and http://playyoo.com/
• Interesting report: Indie Flash Game Development: A 2009 Year-End Retrospective
• Blog article: Best Selling Augmented Reality Games of 2009
• Flash Game License: Looking Back at 2009: Trends and Statistics
• Very cool styles for Casual Computer Games: Skateboard // Jump N Run Adventure
• RT Getting Started: PushButton Engine recording from #SeaFlex last night: http://bit.ly/74jCHc (via @jnbeck)
• Wow! a big Graphical User Interface Collection of Games. Useful for research in interaction design in Games http://gamegui.net/
• Fast statistic consumption... RT @dotmick: Videogame Statistics
• Cool game design prototypes for tangible interfaces: DaVinci (Microsoft Surface Physics Illustrator)
• SurfaceScapes 2.0 demo - A further nice tangible Game Interface idea!
• Nice article about creating a MMO browser game with Flash (Game: zOMG)
• RT Addressing color blindness in (game) design http://is.gd/8HWrQ (via @elsassph)
• Looks good: Flash Gaming on NVIDIA Tablets
• Two great tutorials for particle effects with flint: Introduction Flint in a Game

Flash and Flex

• Brain Computer Interface ActionScript 3.0 API library released by Sean Moore
• RT New #Processing book by Ira Greenberg, The Essential Guide to Processing for Flash Developers, is here!
• RT  @_sandro Highly interesting! Jangaroo - Actionscript 3 to Javascript Compiler! http://www.jangaroo.net/home/ - i think i'm in love 🙂
• Nice list: 5 useful Flash applications listed by Mihai CORLAN
• xmoovStream PHP video server for Flash. Not real Streaming, but progressive download with seeking functionality
• RT Red5 Developer Series videos from @newviewnetworks look awesome! http://bit.ly/4KJBu2
• RT We just released ASDocr, an AIR 2.0 app for working w/ASDoc. Makes documenting AS3 code much easier!
• RT Here it is: @matthbooth's excellent webcam light-painting tutorial - http://bit.ly/4sipE5
• This Controlling the rain project with Arduino and Flash gives a nice introduction into physical computing
• Good introduction video tutorial for the Flash Gaia Website Framework
• Whitpaper about Flex (Slider) Framework and mobile devices
• Great resources for optimizing your content for flash mobile devices
• A really useful set of ActionScript classes and utilities "to get you coding faster and more reliably": http://casalib.org
• Pixelwave, framework for iPhones Games/Apps, based completely on the Flash AS3 API #iphone #flash (via @fplag)
• You can monetize your Flex Components, Flex and Air applications with FlexDen.net http://www.flexden.net/
• FlashSURF by Eugene is an impressive image-based pattern recognition library for Flash