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We’ve come up with a new name and moved our blog to http://2×5.in.
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It’s our new name for our company 2×5 INteractive (two by five = 2 hands and 5 fingers). Xtepz is the name of our super duper exciting project and this site will give you more information [...]

Baby Name Brainstorm: Interactive Baby Naming

I hope I had these tools when I was coming up with my son’s name. I’ll have to forward this to a few friends who are having their juniors soon.
 

Baby Name Brainstorm [babynamebrainstorm.com] is an interactive, animated name graph that helps future parents to find names with particular aesthetic and semantic qualities. Names can be [...]

Track Your Spending with Gmail and Google Docs [Money]

Here is a tip on how you can use Google Docs Form and create a link in Gmail to add custom data collection tools for yourself. 
 

If you’re looking to keep a closer eye on your finances this year and you live and breath Gmail, reader Nick Espinosa has developed a clever method that may be [...]

Video: Merlin's Talk, "Toward Patterns for Creativity"

Whenever I watch this guy I realize that everyone seems to be struggling about the same thing, life. I always enjoy the way he speaks. Very straight forward and frank about everything, especially how he feels about them. Here is a video of him speaking about Design Patterns. This is a subject that I am very very interested [...]

The Motorola Museum: 4

This is way back when Motorola used to be the Bomb! Too bad they are going in to the way of the dinosaurs…

In 1981, the first Motorola cellular phone, consisting mostly of a big battery, was marketed almost exclusively to police and emergency services. Few other customers could afford it.
The development of technology that could [...]

Learn to program a PDP-11 videos

I’m sure glad user interfaces came as far as it has. I can’t imagine working with an interface like this one…
We sure came a long way.

Jason sez, “DePauw University presents a series of videos on how to program the PDP-11. They present all of the steps: toggling a loader, reading and punching paper tape and [...]

Gridplane

found the source of these beautiful data visualization I found in amm FFFFound

Data Visualization
I collaborated with Instrument to develop a series of data visualization concepts for Google. These interface sketches are are all based around a concept of aggregating and visualizing online media buzz across various social media outlets.
Working in tandem with Google [...]

aMap: Mapping Complex Arguments in a Visual Format

this looks like a cool form of information mapping, and decision mapping online and collaboratively. Flow chart and information mapping is something I’m really interested in so I played with this a little bit. quite limiting to be a real application, more of a cute design item you can play around with.
I was very intrigued [...]

Checkvist Creates Export-Friendly Nested Task Lists [To-do Lists]

I’ve been using this for a while now, I might have posted something about this before too maybe. This has been working out great for recording my thoughts down really quickly, and gathering my notes in one place. Hope it had a search feature and category/tag/folder so that I can organize my notes. Hoisting is [...]

Gridplane

via http://www.gridplane.com/html/projects/data-vis
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