Reference

Image 1: Blogspot, 2010, Image- Flickr mas-up, https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbfHfbQUN8GrNqXkRYYYkwZiQ0wGqneN0uMhiMT8vmqHJ-JTFSlVQHPpmdmZjyYpC_c25yPt9Ba-JI6FmjZr0Z_yvGjIOzmOG9tgKjSFDk35aZsgwgZwcFWcqNLsbMChnF0UUNCtiaitAL/s400/snagit-flickr+mashup-starbucks-d3507.jpg, Date accessed 24, July, 2010.



Image 2: Google, 2010, Image- Twitter log, http://www.google.co.uk/images?q=twitter%20logo&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=og&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi&biw=1280&bih=841, Date accessed 24, July, 2010.


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Quartz Composer - Flitter Visualiser

User testing

Here I'm controlling two accounts one called Mr. Think Head and other called Mr.Fat Head. This was user testing for my application based on a javascript keyboard.

Quartz Composer - JavaScript Keyboard

JavaScript Keyboard created in Quartz Composer.
QC Keyboard Patch

Digg Labs - 365

365
Digg's application presented by McDonald's
There is no description on the application but I assume that its picking up on stories/news depending on dates and time which is being displayed using a connecting calendar.

My Friend's Wheel

Facebook application called Friend Wheel. It's creates a visual of our friends and how we are connected to eachother.

Digg Labs - Arc

Arc
Project by Digg Lab
Though stories are arranged using ARC I think this works great as a site map. The loops connecting to relevant sources. Visually its very attractive and stories keep on adding up, adding more colour and loops to the centre. One of my favourite applications.

Digg Labs - Pics

Pics
While browsing the web for other mash-ups I came across Digg's own photo gallery. It's very interactive and full of life as the thumbnails in grids are always moving in their lines. Most of Digg applications are using flash otherwise there could've been a possibility that I use Digg's Photo lab's RSS feed for my mash-up.

Facebook Statistics - Flowing Data

Facebook recently surpassed MySpace as the most popular social network in the world. Let's take a brief look at the current state of the growing social network. Facebook Statistics

Quartz Composer mailing list - help

I e-mailed QC's mailing list regarding the image showing up as thumbnail and slideshow. I had a user replying me helping me sort my problems out. The pictures above shows image as content and is picking 19 images from RSS feed.

Watching Our Twitter World - Flowing Data

Watch as people tweet around the world 24/7.Twitter World

Combining accounts

The image above shows my QC's application using two flickr and two twitter accounts.

Yahoo Pipes - Twitter ID

Yahoo Pipes for Twitter RSS feed based on user's ID number.

Yahoo Pipes - Twitter Username

Yahoo Pipes for Twitter RSS feed based on user's Username.

Yahoo Pipes

I was having problems inserting twitter feeds directly into Quartz Composer. It was clashing with Flickr feeds though they both had their on URL fields. At one point of of the twitter feed worked simply on its own. To overcome the issue I used Yahoo Pipes. I used two routes to get a feed that worked in Quartz Composer.
1: Twitter feed - using User's ID
2. Twitter feed - using User's number.
Having to create two accounts to be able to test my application I'm using two of my own account numbers and two User ID's in my final application.

QC Help

I highly recommend Quartz Composer Apple list. I couldn’t make the RSS feed from Flickr turn into a slideshow. I joined the list and put up my question with the patch. Received reply the following day and it was just what I wanted. It is very helpful online community.
Apple QC mailing list

Quartz Composer - Flickr Images

Working on Flickr RSS.

Using the Flickr RSS directly into Quartz Composer. The image is showing up as thumbnail and is picking a certain image number.

Send an Audio Tweet

How to Send an Audio Tweet

http://mashable.com/2010/07/26/how-to-audio-twitter/
An interesting article on how to send audio tweets. Might be useful to add that to my application later. As the image from flickr and tweets from twitter shows, introduce an audio tweet which can be a welcoming message per user.

Quartz Composer - Particles

Testing library patches in Quartz Composer
QC Camera and Particles Patch

Flowing Data Project - Strength in Numbers

Worldwide Inauguration via Twitter


At noon EST, Barack H. Obama became the 44th president of the United States of America. Watch as the (Twitter) world watched. Below are the tweets worldwide that included inauguration with a "positive attitude."
FlowingData Project

Quartz Composer - Audio Detector

Getting started with Quartz Composer
QC Audio Detector Patch
Being new to Quartz composer I create a few patches to get use to the program and to explore the tools and library. Audio detector is a patch which is based on an image being controlled by sound around the machine. The image stays in centre till a sound is made which makes it loose control in space.

Concept

Looking into many famous social networking sites I have decided to create a mash-up, combining Flickr and Twitter in order to propose an application that will works with real-time data.

My idea is to create an application, which will allow the user to view the Flickr images and twitter tweets of selected people together. The selection of people can be friends or people who one would like to follow and keep up to date.

Instead of following a big community this application will allow users to customise the people/groups of interest and narrow down the search however, one will be able to edit the people/groups they would like to follow or delete from list. I’ll work towards combining 2-4 user’s Flickr and Twitter accounts.

The thought is to be able view many accounts at once on one screen without having to login and search for people/groups one by one. The user will be required to input feeds from Flickr and Twitter only one time, just the way we require username or –mail address to add a new person to our list.

Digg Lab

Labs Digg - Bigspy/
This is like Digg's own Twitter space. All the feeds are displayed on a page. The hotter the topic, the bolder is displays. Number of digs are shown in red at the end of every story/news. Latest stories are shown on top of the page. The news move so quickly out of screen that I personally find hard to keep track of them. By the time I reach to end of a line its already gone.

DSS

Link to all my work for this module: http://www.nimrajavaid.com/dss.html