16 month ago
43folders : The record and the bet, by Jeffrey Veen - "My only consolation? I'll be a 6'6" guy with a goatee wearing a dress in San Francisco. Nobody will blink an eye..."
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17 month ago
43folders : Raiders of the Lost Ark and the mystery of inspiration, by Jeffrey Veen - How Indiana Jones helped inspire the Analytics visualization. Very James Burke, Mr. Veen.
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23 month ago
Simon Willison : Designing Google Reader's trends - Designing Google Reader’s trends. “But beyond the visualization, this serves as a good example of collecting and understanding the ambient information that flows through our digital lives.â€
plasticbag : Jeff Veen writes about the trends pages of Google Reader and mentions his increasing lust for recombinable life data streams - I really think there's something here - life dashboards or something. I'd love to be able to see my financial burn rate, my location, my energy usage, my tracked weight—all of this stuff—visable and interpretable.
kellan : Jeff Veen: Designing Google Reader’s trends - Jeff Veen: Designing Google Reader’s trends. I want GReader trends without using GReader. Want it sooo bad. I’ve been talking a bit lately about my ideal aggregator which by default shows nothing but trends. (And I still MeasureMap!) #
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23 month ago
Jeremy Zawodny : I like big charts and I cannot lie - I like big charts and I cannot lie: that's some cool personal info porn... bonus points for the subtle ass reference
Andy Baio : Google Reader adds personalized charts - the best feedreader around keeps getting better
Linkorama : I like big charts and I cannot lie - headline of the year (so far) and a great incentivizing tool for google reader
Rod Begbie : Official Google Reader Blog: I like big charts and I cannot lie - Google Reader do cool personal "what have I been reading" datamining. Google Reader's come on by leaps and bounds since its launch -- If you're still using Bloglines, it's well worth trying out again. [via] #
plasticbag : The Google Reader blog talks about the work on the trends stuff that Veen and Doug have been doing... - I've still not actually had a play with this yet, which is pretty much unforgivable, particularly as I have such trouble with keeping up with my newsreader.
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34 month ago
Andy Baio : Google buys Measure Map - congrats, Jeff and the Adaptive Path crew!
Jeremy Zawodny : Here comes Measure Map - Here comes Measure Map: google bought measure map... saw that coming a mile away
Douglas Bowman : Google > Measure Map - Congratulations to Jeff Veen and the entire Adaptive Path team that worked on Measure Map. Here's to even better things ahead.
Jason Shellen : Official Google Blog: Here comes Measure Map - Google picks up Measure Map plus co-creator Jeff Veen and crew. Glad to have the deal all sewn up. #
kellan : MeasureMap goes to Google, which means Ruby at Google! - Beginning of a trend? (I'd say this will fix the MeasureMap scalability probs, except G hasn't fixed the ones with Gurchin yet) #
jkottke : Google buys Measure Map, Jeff Veen leaves Adaptive Path to work at Google - Google buys Measure Map, Jeff Veen leaves Adaptive Path to work at Google.
plasticbag : It's official! Google buys Measuremap! - I've chatted to Veen a few times over the last few months but still this is a surprise. It's a lovely piece of work, which I imagine will fit Blogger very well. And I'm looking forward to hearing about Google's culture and swapping notes...
Linkorama : Here comes Measure Map - Bought by Google, congrats AP!
jimray : Official Google Blog: Here comes Measure Map - Jeff Veen joins Google, as does Measure Map
Nelson Minar : Jeff Veen to Google - Good for him
kayodeok : Official Google Blog: Here comes Measure Map - Our goal has been to use the power of web analytics to help bloggers feel that same sense of connection with their audience. Today, as the Measure Map team joins Google, our mission remains the same: to build the best possible user experience so people ca
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42 month ago
jkottke : Jeff Veen's The Art and Science of Web Design is 5 years old - To celebrate, he's made a proof of the entire book available for download.
plasticbag : Jeffrey Veen's "The Art and Science of Web Design" is five years old - And Veen's only gone and released it as a PDF. Smart arse. S'kind of annoying actually. No, actually, it's just great...
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