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Long time ago I started posting my last summary of my Twitter messages. It is always a nice way to reexperience the developments of a certain time period. For this reason my most important Twitter messages from Ocotber 2014 until January 2015.

Allgemein (General)

• Gartner's 2014 Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies Maps the Journey to Digital Business
• RT Slides from my IoT #ApacheCon talk
• RT #Google and #Arduino have highest influence on #IoT stakeholders. New #IoTinfluencers ranking
• Nice article: The one problem the Internet of Things hasn’t solved
• RT What is the Environmental Cost of Internet of Things? · #iot · Environmental Leader
• Important topic for Internet of Things: Calm Technology
• 80% Of All Online Adults Now Own A Smartphone, Less Than 10% Use #Wearables
• nice read: Why You Should Design for Open Source
• RT Hey! An article about Web history which mostly treats Flash with respect
• RT Dear Europe, Please don't legislate away the open Web. Thanks.
• RT Deep Lab lecture serie recommended watching for anybody remotely interested in what the fuck is going on
• RT Meshnets: How do they work?
• RT This is the best internet-manfesto-thing I've read in a long time. (via @EthanZ (cc @TheUniverse
• Massive list of #indieweb tools for #indiedev: redecentralize/alternative-internet == save the internet! 😉
• Interesting read: When Women Stopped Coding
• Looks nice: IEEE Computer Magazine Special Issue on Making: Free Download
• Nice article: Code + culture: new media art from Japan link via @whoun
• RT Instructive to compare news … artnet.com with creativeapplications.net … for a view of how art-art vs. media-art shakes out in late 2014.
• nice: interdisciplinaryprogramming.com is a platform for connecting scientists and software professionals with the goal of making technology more open
• RT Report Vergleich Software für #Wissensmanagement, jetzt bei unserm Sponsor #Pumacy anforderbar,

Generative Art:

• RT Artist Grows Pollock-Worthy Digital Paintings with an Algorithm
• RT 10 free brushes for painting skin and hair For @Photoshop & @CorelPainter
• RT #Lasercutting with #wood: kerf bending patterns via @yellingbytes
• John Edmark has a real nice style for experemting with geometry, kinetic #sculptures and transformable objects
• The beauty of #Fibonacci (#math) in animation & sculptures

Info Design and Visualization

• RT the purpose of data visualization is to find and share actionable stories that are based in quantitative evidence"
• RT For an update on what's happening in data visualisation, see @visualisingdata's link collection
• RT Hours of #dataviz knowledge ahead: 40 must-watch video keynotes of 2014
• RT "List of Physical Visualizations":  (via @flowingdata)
• RT #d3js video tutorial: D3 For Everyone!  by @DashingD3js @OReillyMedia
• RT The D3 deconstructor extension extracts data from D3 visualizations: (via @auremoser
• RT mobilev.is/  and http://mobileinfovis.com/  are great resources for mobile infovis #ieeevis
• Nice article and introduction about responsive charts: Chartist.js, An Open-Source #Library For Responsive Charts
• RT Global Open Data Index 2014. UK top of the pops, Germany 18th, Switzerland 30th, Austria 33rd
• RT This is interesting - measuring what each country contributes "to the good of humanity
• RT See the global network of CIA torture
• RT Cool on so many #data levels. Logging environmental data with sensors

 UX and Interaction Design:

• RT Wieviel Millimeter sind ein Pixel? Projekt von Schmackes & Jontef
• RT The touchable future of communication @MIT by @mbaratz
• RT Great presentation: The Art of UI Animations
• RT Building touch UI by defining how something moves and what its constraints are
• RT Detecting whether someone is using left hand or right hand when opening an app menu
• RT New: my deep dive into mobile design. 2.5 hours of video on mobile menus, forms, inputs, conversion, layout & more.
• RT Apple Watch UI elements
• RT Design guidelines for building on iOS: ht/ @brian_lovin
•  Nothing complete new but good to keep in your mind: Google Design link via @YellingBytes
• RT #Decision #Architecture
• RT Using Salience to Guide User Decision-Making
• Nice article: All You Need To Know About Customer Journey Mapping
• RT Useful Customer Journey Mapping Toolkit
• Important topic for the future in connection IoT: Slides from Designing Calm Technology
• RT The UI alone of this amazing VFX editor by @quelsolaar will make you drool:

Projekte und Experimente (Projects and experiments)

• RT Nintendo Power Glove hacked to control camera systems for stop motion animation. Now that's power!
• REally nice #interaction #design: Tangible and Modular Input Device for Character Articulation via @mkalten
• RT I'm incredibly proud and excited to debut our first Kinematics Dress!
• Modular tangible interfaces for your #iPad or other #multitouch devices:
• RT "Projections in the Forest"  elegant (& clever) use of in situ video mapping + making of
• Nice video and sound sculptures: CYMATICS: Science Vs. Music - Nigel Stanford via @jenschr
• When #Art, Design meet Science: Beautiful #Chemistry - Amazing Chemical Reactions
• RT Awesome new @unhosted web app based on @pouchdb: cloudwall.me
• RT Modular web browser written entirely in JavaScript: breach.cc via @newsycbot

Neue Technologie (new Technologies)

• RT Living mushroom bricks and bacteria based dye, biofabrication is incredible!
• RT “Nanobuds” Could Turn Almost Any Surface Into a Touch Sensor By @KevinBullis
• RT Computing isn’t in computers anymore; computing is everything.”
• Technology and Light: Rohinni's Lightpaper Is Incredibly Thin, And Printable
• New projection approach: An Aerial Laser Display Capable of Projecting 3D Objects in Mid-Air
• This #research project could solve the issues with haptic feedback for free form #gestures
• New #research in paper oriented interactions - FlexSense: A Transparent Self-Sensing Deformable Surface via @onurson
• Great talk about the technique of Video Magnification: revealing minor color&motion changes
• Research paper: Deep Visual-Semantic Alignments for Generating Image Descriptions #object #recognition

Programmierung und Software Design (Programming)

• Some #algorithm for doing string comparisons: Levenstein | Winkler |and Longest common subsequence problem
• RT Nice. The 10 Algorithms that Rule our World: (following on @slavin_fpo
• RT Algorithmic cruelty “Year in Review” app fails
• RT “Smart” Software Can Be Tricked into Seeing What Isn’t There
• Great read about improving the (code) quality of your website: How To Create Your Own Front-End Website #Testing Plan
• RT ofxSolar lets you calculate sunrise and sunset based on location
• procedural tree generator for #openframeworks by @mrbichel
• RT a web browser GUI to remotely control remotely an openframeworks app
• The TUIO Framework got a code refresh to Version 1.1 | code thx to @mkalten
• RT just uploaded the updated nfOSC tool to Github. now supports multiple RFID readers and #tuio2
• RT API search is just great
• RT SQL vs NoSQL: What is the difference & why are organizations adopting NoSQL? Read the whitepaper:
• RT @scratch @littleBits here are the instructions for the browser extension. I haven't tried the offline extension yet.

Physical Computing

• codebender.cc is an online development & collaboration platform for #Arduino
• Open source camera system: apertus link via @OSEcology
• Olympus launches open #camera platform so makers can print their own lens camera parts  via www.3ders.org
• The startup dynepic works on an open plattform for the internet of toys. Looks interesting this kind of #IoT #arduino
• RT Tardis is a smartwatch for @Arduino lovin' Makers:
• Nice Open Hardware Project: Piccolo - the tiny #CNC bot
• Nice open source project: FarmBot - a CNC Farming method | code
• Great project with nice documentation: Open #Garden | arduino via libelium.com#nature
• Automatisiertes Heim mit #Arduino Tools and #android | automated home: englisch version
• RT Cool on so many levels. Logging environmental data with sensors
• RT @Infineon releases two #Arduino shields | via @OpenElectronics
• RT ArduRF is a dev platform that wants to ease wireless links for Arduinos
• RT READ this article from #arduino #blog : GSM Controlled Star Light: A xmas tutorial for Intel Galileo
• RT New Arduino Bluetooth RC Boat #diy
• RT 5 DIY 3D Scanners to watch. Would you use a 3D scanner at home?
• RT Reminder: Bot Summit was in November. We had amazing botmakers speak and you can watch the whole thing on Youtube
• RT Check out my new blog post "#Gadgeteer vs #Arduino vs #Phidgets"!
• RT Arduino-controlled HDMI switch
• RT Double the chips, double the fun! Using the power of two MCUs on an @Arduino
• RT Sehr schönes #Tutorial für #Arduino über Software PWM
• RT PLC Real Time Clock Using Arduino via
• RT Build a solar-powered heart rate monitor with Arduino
• RT READ this article from #arduino #blog : Control Large DC Motors with Arduino
• Flame sensor looks interesting: #Arduino Modules – Flame #Sensor 
• RT #PixyCamera: detect the colour of the objects and track their position with #arduino| via @OpenElectronics
• RT How to Build a Handheld, Raspberry Pi-Powered Game Console
• The combination of RaspberryPi and WAMP looks interesting for prototyping #IoT apps
• RT In my latest post on the @twilio blog I go old school and teach you how to build a pager using @nodejs and @arduino
• Build a cloud-ready temperature sensor with the #Arduino Uno + IBM #IoT + #MQTT: Part 1 | part 2
• RT Sending push notifications from #arduino

Digital Archives

• The alternative of IMDB for #snowboard #movies
• Digitale Bücher Sammlungen vom ZB MED Leibniz Institut im Bereich Lebenswissenschaften (bis 1920)
• New source: 800,000 Pages of Patient Art and Mental Health #Archives Are Going Online:
• Free library of space #sounds by NASA and archive #noise
• RT An interactive map to explore the 2,619,833 images from the Internet Archive's collection:

Digital Health, mHealth and Telemedicine:

• Telemedicine may just be the biggest trend in digitalhealth in 2015 via @forbes
• Wirklich guter Bericht: Zukunftstrend „Medical Apps“

Mobile

• This rapid #prototyping tool for #android looks interesting hlink via @regnerischerTag
• RT Using Microsoft TouchDevelop to create Arduino sketches - #arduino #WindowsPhone
• RT The first #Arduino-compatible board that can be programmed wirelessly from an #iPad
• RT The World by screen size…
• Benedict Evans, a partner at Andreessen Horowitz, talks about the outlook for #mobile #technology

Wearable Technology

• The Nudgeables Accessory Kit is a very nice tool for rapid #prototyping in the domain of wireless wearable technology
• interactex.de  is a nice online plattform about #design #patterns for wearable #technology
• Big #database and great tool for doing research in the domain of #wearable #technology!

Game Developing:

• RT Interesting paper and read: Five Theses for Interactive Digital Narrative 
• Nice: Central Issues in Interactive Narrative – A discussion with Chris Crawford link via @fkirschner
• RT List of FREE useful tools for Flash/AIR game developers
• RT New assets: Landscape tiles! Pre-rendered 3D tiles covering roads, landscaping and water. License: CC0!
• media archaeology par excellence: Software Library: MS-DOS Games #retrogaming #archive link via @fkirschner
• RT My latest upload : Building multiplayer games with angular, node,… on @slideshare
• RT .@Phoenard is the world’s first all-in-one, @Arduino-compatible prototyping gadget:

HTML & JavaScript

• RT Again great stuff to read over the holidays
• Good post about the issues with #js: The State of JavaScript in 2015
• RT If you have a misconception that CSS Regions are only for magazine layout, please read the new (and short!) intro
• RT Image comparison slider with pure CSS
• RT Great examples on how far #CSS animations have come - Elastic SVG Animations
• Finally it is released: Brackets v1.0, an open-source text #code editor | review
• RT TIL Google Chrome has a command line API
• RT WebRTC is one of the most exciting new technologies. Watch @tOkeshu giving you all the details you need
• RT So many possibilities to share data in almost real-time wamp.ws  | swarmjs.github.io  | sharejs.org
• Wireless Physical Computing with javascript and nodejs -> www.spark.io  and #js sdk #IoT #wifi
• Tutorial for programming with Little Bits modules using javascript #IoT #prototyping
• This tutorial project is just great! Arduino Experimenter's Guide for NodeJS
• Nice approach for Prototyping multiplayer / multiuser applications: Creating a #WebRTC with #RaspberryPi and #nodejs
• RT Node.js Production Practices Guide: Get tips on designing, deploying & debugging applications
• RT A practical introduction to building a RESTful API with the #hapijs server framework for #Nodejs
• RT Node #5: Building a REST API with Restify and Monk  #nodejs #mongodb #monk #restify via @gentlenode
• RT New DrawSVGPlugin for #GSAP gives you total control over SVG stroke animations
• RT join @marcinignac @mattdesl @mrdoob @idflood by releasing my own js timeline lib today
• RT PEX, a set of JavaScript libraries for computational thinking in Plask/Node.js and WebGL by @marcinignac
• RT .@yearofmoo's Realtime "Eye Candy" w/ #AngularJS talk is our most watched video w/ over 47K views! Way to go Matias!
• RT Introducing SIMD.js

Flash and Flex

• RT Flash Professional: The Future of Animation- recording is out! => #CreateJS #GAF #Away3D #WebGL #OpenFL
• RT An Introduction to Flash Professional WebGL Runtime API
• RT "Flash Runtime 16 Update – New PPAPI Installers and AIR news!"
• RT  Slides from my intro to #ApacheFlex talk at #ApacheConEU | code can be found on github
• RT Slides for my FlexUnit talk at #ApacheFlex can be found here | code can be found on github
• RT #AdobeAIR Native Extensions round-up
• RT An ANE to unleash the power of the cast devices on #AIR mobile apps #chromecast
• RT Finished my small #AdobeAIR ANE for iOS tutorial about Badges on Icons and the rest.
• RT #AdobeAIR #iOS #ANE #NativeExtension developers! Attention please!
• RT We added FlashCC demos to our Flash/AIR SDK package for iOS and Android
• RT iOS UIView over #AdobeAIR don't dispose or lose your #Stage3D Context. It's not AIR bug. Check your code or ANE
• RT Adobe AIR for iOS: Adding custom unsupported language for AppStore [Tutorial]
• RT Custom Flex PopUpMananger post with demo and source code up now. #ApacheFlex #UX #Animation
• RT Record your AIR and Flash apps / games to videos
• RT Async GIF decoder library for #flash
• RT AS3-WebVTT - Updated parser to account for vtt files with index numbers
• Nice article about Read/Write data with ByteArray in context of Flash/AS3 + Adobe Air. http://bjeld.com/tips/readwrite-data-with-bytearray/ … link via @FlashDailyNet
• RT Here's a really robust tween library for ActionScript 3. It's called Actuate, it can tween filters, colors etc
• RT Testing your Amazon In-App Purchasing App with Adobe AIR
• RT Twilio AS3 node.js demo
• RT In your new Adobe Air projects use 2048-RSA to avoid the Android L issues.
• Nice Article about some basic Internet of Things web services via flashdaily.net

Sonstiges / Other stuff:

• RT Playing with Architecture
• RT Bob Ross - The Joy Of Painting. All 16 seasons!
• A nice book about #Teaching and #Learning for Kids/Teenager: Invent To Learn: Making, Tinkering, and #Engineering
• RT CodeMonkey is an engaging online game that teaches real computer programming to children
• RT interactive map to find bakeries in germany.
• RT How to remove a dent from wood, using water and an iron
• RT Basket weaving 101, using honeysuckle