Simulation of U.S. at Night
While working on some optimizations for the HeatmapTool.com software, I came up with the idea of simulating the U.S. at night by plotting the population in white over a dark background…
Actual image:
HeatmapTool has a Korean review!
Wish I understood any of this.
Mabuhay Net Reaches 10 Million Hits
Just a few years after a sharp rise in popularity (mostly due to a certain easy game), Mabuhay Net has reached a huge milestone.
10 million hits! Wow!
Word Magnets
Check out Mabuhay Net‘s latest game, Word Magnets! It’s my first live-updating game (open it in two browser windows and move some words to see what I mean).
HeatmapTool.com listed on the gheat project
HeatmapTool.com is now an officially recognized competitor to the gheat project!
If2meet: Rethinking the Interface
An important message from the CEO of If2meet:
Over the past four days, If2meet has grown in ways none of us could have ever anticipated. With over three events being created every day, dozens of people around the world now use If2meet to plan meetings, birthdays, and intimate encounters.
Despite its overwhelming popularity, we here at If2meet haven’t forgotten about the mission that brought us to where we are today: to simplify event planning down to a simple yes-or-no decision. Some believe our interface design should reflect these founding principles. We agree.
Deciding to rethink an interface that hasn’t been changed in almost a week is certainly not easy. We decided to go back to the basics, to the very image that inspired this website.
Click here to keep reading.
World IPv6 Launch Day
Today is the World IPv6 Launch Day, so all of my websites have been made IPv6 compatible. To understand the importance of IPv6 for the future of the internet, Google has a put together an excellent explanation.
Here’s the full list of websites being hosted on my server, now with IPv6.
More Press for HeatmapTool.com!
HeatmapTool is a tool for easily creating heat maps or incident maps from a CSV file. To create a heat map all you need to do is upload a CSV file then specify your desired display attributes like scale, colors, and opacity. You can edit the display attributes of your map whenever you like. If you’re wondering how to create a CSV file you can do so by exporting from a spreadsheet in Google Documents or exporting from an Excel file. Click here for directions on exporting from Excel. The free version of Heat Map Tool allows you to have up to 100 data points on your map and up to 500 hits per day on your map.
See the original post on Free Technology for Teachers.
First Customer for HeatmapTool.com
HeatmapTool.com got its first customer today: a research team at the Monterey Institute of International Studies!
HeatmapTool.com is getting some press!
HeatmapTool is a service for easily creating heat maps with the Google Maps API.
To create a heat map with HeatmapTool the user simply needs a comma separated values file (CSV) of their location data. The tool includes a number of options to customise the colors used, the size of the spot radius and the opacity of the heat map overlay.
The free version of HeatmapTool allows the user to create heat maps with up to 100 data points and allows for 500 hits per day.
See the original post on Maps Mania.