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A small summary of my Twitter messages from January - March 2011:

Allgemein (General)

• RT When buildings start to tweet: Good overview of recent media architecture examples (Via @strg_n, @Heuserkampf)
• Kurzes schönes Videoportrait über Julis von Bismarck
• Starting to upload FOTB2010 videos: Brendan Dawes - more going up regularly. (via @FOTB)
• Great Master thesis by Tim Devine about Device Shifting and #Design #mobile
• Sabine is talking about Functional Aesthetics book in TEDx Vienna
• Maybe an interesting book: Web Aesthetics - How Digital Media Affect Culture and Society
• #Arte präsentiert ein Netzwerk für Künstler, Kulturproduzenten und alle anderen
• Moving talk by Jonathan Harris on his work and the absurdities of digital livestyle
• Mendeley is a free reference manager and academic social network via Henning Schulze
• Die Qual der Wiki-Wahl - #Wikis für #Wissensmanagement in Organisationen  #dokumentation #vergleich
• Nice articles about #urban based #computing & #design No. 1 | No. 2 | No. 3
• The Museum of Lost Interactions - very interesting and nice videos, too #media #archeology #art #design
• RT open culture http://bit.ly/9qQrQD 340 free movies.
• Sounds interesting: Kickstarter is a funding platform for creative projects

Generative Art:

• More new great #generative #art tutorials from Nicolas Barradeau #flash #design
• RT Fantastic geometry blog. http://moniker.name/worldmaking/
• Neuer Monat, neuer Live-Mitschnitt. Mario Klingemann aka Quasimondo über "Schönes aus Code"

Info Design and Visualization

• Nice resource for #information visualization projects: #Crime Maps of England (London) #infovis #data #webservice
• Free-for-any-use ArcGIS Online map services: basemaps, demographic, reference, and specialty maps. 
• RT Vis JavaScript-toolkit by @mbostock: Data-Driven Documents / D3 (via @moritz_stefaner, @peterpaulrubens).

UX and Interaction Design:

• RT Nice collection about small screen solutions: (via @minstyle)
• RT The Psychology of Web Performance:  (via @uxzentrisch)
• RT loads.in - test how fast a webpage loads in a real browser from over 50 locations worldwide: (via @janchriste)
• Nice read: The ABC of behaviour #interaction #design #ux #article #read
• Android UX Patterns via @richardleggett #interaction #interface #design
• KinectTouch: turns any surface into a #TUIO touchpad using #kinect
• rule based language for describing #multitouch #gestures by Lode Hoste

Projekte und Experimente (Projects and experiments)

• Very cool body mapping #kinecthacks via @chrisoshea
• Interesting effect: Kinect Cloth Simulations #processing
• Newstweek: a device to manipulate news read by other people on wireless hotspots (cafes, libraries, airports)
• Really nice project: Esper Domino #senseware
• Nice Space Motion Design by Sebastian Neitsch
• Amazing work of Ryota Kuwakubo's - the installation The Tenth Sentiment
• Wow Legoplatformer looks so nice for some experimental prototypings... #interaction #tangible #ar

Neue Technologie (new Technologies)

• some nice thoughts on Face Tracking & Face Recognition in AR #ar #tracking
• Biometric systems are developed for the detection of faces and gestures

Programmierung und Software Design (Programming)

• RT EaselJS v0.2 is released! Focus for this release: making vector shapes & text on HTML5 canvas easier
• RT @blogblog: #ParticleSDK, a #crossplaform SDK to develop native #mobile apps from one codebase
• RT Let's take a look: Eloquent JavaScript is a guide to JavaScript that focuses on good programming techniques …
• Less Framework 4 is now out
• RT Oh lovely: CSS Easing Animation Tool by @matthewlein (via @@mrdoob)
• RT Hand detection with Blobscanner in Processing
• Nice tutorial how to work with #java + eclipse in #MaxMSP
• PixelWave - Native 2D iPhone framework based on the Flash API

Physical Computing

• RT Arduino The Documentary (2010) by gnd
• Great! @make published a site only about #arduino projects. Nice resource of tutorials and articles http://makezine.com/arduino/
• Nice tips and advices for perfect soldering. Especially for #physical #computing beginners like me via @make
• http://www.inventables.com is a great resource for new #hardware and materials in physical (computing) projects.

Game Developing:

• RT New video tutorial on creating isometric 3D with @as3isolib
• Nice read for #gamedev: #Flash #Game #Monetization: Total revenue from last 3 years
• Interesting article: Indie #Flash #Game Development: 2010 by Josh Tynjala #gamedev #monetize
• Nice #paper about #modding and the impacts: Precarious Playbour: Modders and the Digital Games Industry
• A great #paper: Moving #Learning #games Forward by http://www.educationarcade.org #serious #gaming #design
• RT DAME is an awesome free tilemap editor for Flixel. Also extendable with Lua.

Flash and Flex

• RT gskinner: Open source profiler for AS3. Definitely worth checking out.
• RT nice list of #Flash #Compression Libraries
• RT Blogged: Using BlackBerry PaymentService with Adobe AIR for the #PlayBook
• RT Huge open-source gesture library released by @GestureWorks
• Nice tutorial: #Flash + #Alchemy Series Part 2: Environment Setup
• Nice implementation of SimpleStageVideo
• RT What can you do with bytes ? - Updated!
• #Flash media server 4 #whitepaper now available
• Nice tool for using #flash content: Resolume #VJ #Software
• Creating QR Codes in ActionScript via @riarockstars
• RT Check out the latest diagramming and #visualization libraries for #Flex and #Air apps by @KapLab
• RT AS3 API: AS3Square