This a a creative online app I discovered that generates music from any URL. All you have to do is to type in a URL, the program will then analyze the html script in the <body> content and generate a unique piece of music for this URL. User can share this piece of music through [...]
I just found this amazing free tool that can do some smart data visualization with the simplest sets of data comparing to other visualization tools. You can just import basic excel files or even txt files with huge chunk of data and it will categorize and visualize them. Graphics and interface might not be as sexy [...]
A new site was just launched with this funny campaign called “Certified Virgins” where people can get a “certificate of virginity” with US$1.00 each, they claimed that “part of” it will be donated to the Aids cure research. This site has a very clean and official-looking design, but until it is linked to or by [...]
This is a viral piece was posted on the same day as the iPad released. Jakob Hammarback and Jon Wingard created the iSandwhitch 4G as an experiment to see if it can go viral. It is a video showing how they use different ingredients all put together on a piece of bread to create the same shape [...]
There have been many viral websites lately that requires users to upload images of themselves, most of these websites have face detection script on it which allows them to add funny and special effect to the faces. This one is a little bit different, instead of adding effects to images, this creates a movie about [...]
Rambler is the only pair of shoes in the world that owns a Twitter account, designed and created by artist and technology savvy Ricardo Nascimento. These’s a sensor inside the sneakers that tracks movements, then updates it’s Twitter. However, it can only tweet two words, “tap” and “.”, depending on the pressure you exert. It’s [...]
David McCandles from InformationIsBeautiful has always been one of my favourite people to watch in data visualization. Below is a beautiful piece he put together recently showing the censored websites (grey) and keywords (red) with the shape of China. All the data is based on the information from Wikipedia.
These are some of the great apps that have “changed my life”, hope you find it useful. Apologize to PC users, you should perhaps consider getting a mac to make your life easier. Evernote I use Evernote mainly for Blogging, collecting ideas, and work connections. Blogger: Since my work is very relevant to my passion, [...]
This was supposed to be a viral video for anti-smoking programme QuitPlan®. If it’s not your first time visiting this blog, or my other blog Tim Ho’s Monkey, you should know how much I like monkeys. I don’t really get the point why this has anything to do with stopping smokers, maybe it’s just me [...]
Google just announced that 17 World Development Indicators can now be searched in Google search. Therefore you will see this in Google search result if you look for Internet users of a country: I’ve always been paying attention to World Bank as they have good amount of high quality data visualization and very useful data. [...]
A Little Something About Tim:
I'm a Regional Digital Strategist at Ogilvy 360 Digital Influence APAC. I love web designing, data visualization, latin music, cooking, painting, inventing new drinks, and monkeys. Here is my main blog where I share social media news, ideas and insights. I also have a more personal blog called Tim Ho's Monkey!
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