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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 ...

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 ...

Gartner have highlighted mashups as a growth area for 2009 and predict that ''by 2012, one-third of analytic applications applied to business processes will be delivered through coarse-grained application mashups'' in the Five Predictions report. I have been looking at harnessing the power of mixing geographic visualisation techniques with ...

Moving into the multiple factor authentication World (crypto calculators, tags etc) it looks like we may all have a lot of these different devices to authenticate our selves, here are my ramblings on the subject... Does anyone else have a bank account which uses crypto calculators, tags or mobile phone codes to validate a transaction? Two factor ...

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 ...

A recent question around the area of personalisation and customisation as part of the web offering of mature retail brands got me thinking about this post, because it's an issue I've seen with a number of organisations. The first problem lies with semantics - i.e. the definition of personalisation vs customisation with respect to the use ...