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What I’ve been working on at Stamen: Trulia Hindsight
I'm just back from the Where 2.0 conference in San Jose where Shawn and I tumbled through a 15 minute summary of Stamen and our last few months of work: starting with Mappr, MoveOn and Cabspotting, through Mike's Oakland Crime visualisations, leading to Modest Maps, INdigital telecom and finally launching Trulia Hindsight:
Trulia Hindsight is the first project I've worked on from beginning to end at Stamen, and it's been a lot of fun. We developed the initial concepts as a group and then the ideas were fleshed out by me under Eric's guidance and with design input from Geraldine Sarmiento - thanks Geraldine!
We've got an initial write-up on the Stamen site, and Trulia's take on things is here. Hopefully we can get a chance to post some of the initial experiments that went into the piece and talk about some of the things we're proud of soon. For the moment though, it's time to breathe out and see what people think!
XTech 2007, and visiting London
I'll be back in London in a couple of weeks, on May 18th right after XTech 2007 in Paris where Mike and I will be speaking about visualisations of time.
Some themes/highlights I'm looking forward to from the schedule:
- Aaron Straup Cope (Yahoo/Flickr) and Håkon Wium Lie (Opera) are both talking about paper and printing and the web.
- Blaine Cook (Obvious/Twitter) and Kellan Elliott-McCrea (Yahoo/Flickr) are talking about Jabber (IM) and social software for robots.
- I'm interested to see if Simon Willison can keep up his momentum on OpenID (I'm a skeptic).
- It will be good to catch up with Steve Coast and talk about OpenStreetMap
- Matt Biddulph is (sadly) talking about his work in Second Life but hopefully also about his recent shift to working full-time on Dopplr too.
Registration closes on Tuesday, so if you want to hang out with us, see all that, and hear keynotes from Adam Greenfield, Gavin Starks and Schulze & Webb, you should jump to it and register!
At some point I'm going to stop pretending that I'll write this blog with any regularity. In the meantime, if you're wondering what I'm up to you should know that life in San Francisco is great and that Stamen are treating me very well... If you want to know more you'll just have to grab me face to face, or at least wait for my current project to launch by which point I might find time to breathe. We'll see!
SxSW Interactive, Saturday March 10th
Just a quick note to say that on Saturday March 10th I'll be appearing at SxSWi in Austin, Texas as part of a panel convened by Flickr/geoblogger's Rev Dan Catt entitled "Mapping: Where the F#*% Are We Now?". In the fancy SxSW panel picker, Dan's proposal read:
"Last year online mapping was emerging, now it's everywhere; on your mobile, in your camera, on your wearable head-up display, in your location aware clothing, even on paper and in your kids. Which of those did I totally make up? Guess it's time to check in with those people who actually make maps, merge virtual and real worlds at location flux points, and, you know, put maps online."
It sounds great! I'll be wearing both my old, trusty OpenStreetMap hat and my new, fancy Stamen hat, which should make for an interesting balancing act.
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