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Living away from home makes you miss friends, family… and, perhaps oddly, the place. VR Web Design offer a service which gives a Virtual Tour of London and other cities which is very innovative and cool. Note: the spheres are areas of focus / interest which can be clicked on to shift the focus to another part of the city.   This was ...

You may have heard the latest developing trend around outsourcing the information worker such as the law firm Pinsent who outsource litigation work to South Africa, however I was very impressed by this article which Matt Harris passed on to me – essentially the Telegraph have had a fantastic couple of months with the expenses scandal and held all ...

I have come across a visualization technique called Here and There by Schulze and Webb from Alexis Kennedy (as ever thanks), other blogs and Wired Magazine (UK, June 2009). See below what it looks like:       As mentioned in Wired, it is like street view on a roller coaster – eye level and birds eye view. It is definitely ...

This is the bold claim by the web browser company - Opera. Watch this space on Tuesday. What this actual means is unknown and any conjecture is circumspect but there is an article on The Register here which explains what this could be…   So on Tuesday at 9 AM (8 AM BST) the web will be reinvented here – it is great that outlandish claims ...

Microsoft have launched a new Search Engine called Bing incorporating the technology comes from Microsoft’s acquisition of Powerset (not just a rebrand of Windows Live). It is being marketed as more than just a search engine, rather as a decision engine. It is in preview and you can try it out here, the video is worth a look too. ...

When Alexander of Macedonia [link] was 33 he cried salt tears because there were no more worlds to conquer, its a shame he wasn't around in today's world as there would be plenty of battles for him to get his teeth into - especially with visualizing reams of information in a ever flowing and tempestuous sea of data which can be visualized in a 3D ...

How did you find this post? Was it through a RSS / Atom feed, Google search, my status message on Google Talk / MSN / LinkedIn, my Twitter post or through a real time Twitter search? Twitter's search offers a unique approach to search - search in real time. What is real time search? I was on a plane about to land in Amsterdam a couple of weeks ...

I don't mean Social BI as in a Social Smoker or Social Drinker - someone who only does it on weekends, in a crowd or once in a while.... I am coming from the collaboration, decision making dialogue, tagging perspective. Where users have a greater ability to collaborate  informally as people do with other social sites (LinkedIn, Facebook ...

We put a lot of effort into getting the metrics, KPIs, dimensions, values into the database, data warehouse, the ETL, analysis and user requirements have all been completed but we don’t always spend enough time looking at the effective visualization of this information. Missing the step to ensure that it is as insightful, intuitive, clear and easy ...

In this post I look at a different approach to BI personas and explore the needs of the dynamic user. Exploring the possibility that whilst users will always need to use BI for their primary objective, they may also want to use other features (collaboration, social network-esque tools and advanced analytics) which may not match their original ...