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ICCARUS
Posted on August 16th, 2007 18 commentsLast week we decided that we’d like to enter the uber-cool Webjam competition that was being held in Perth for the first time. We didn’t just want to show Scouta, because we see it every day. We wanted to show something we thought was super-cool.
A couple of extra screen captures are in my Flickr stream, and a screencast is being developed.
We came up with the idea of visualizing Scouta’s activity in 3D. So Simon spent part of the weekend hacking together ICCARUS: Interactive Command Console and Relational User Statistics (a name we tried to make as dry and boring as possible, so it would contrast the actual application).
Last night we presented ICCARUS, and it won the event! Below is the video of the presentation.
I’d personally like to thank Simon! It was his insane coding skill that made it all possible.
Also a big thanks to Lachlan Hardy, Lisa Herrod, and Tim Lucas for bringing Webjam across. And Myles for the effort on this end.
And a big thanks to Adobe for the prize of CS3.
13 responses to “ICCARUS”
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It was uber-cool! I was even more impressed when Simon showed me you could pull up individual members. Can’t wait to see a better quality screencast, the video is great, but doesn’t do all your hard work justice.
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Soon as I saw this, I knew you had won. It was just so cool. A screencast will really show it off. Great work guys.
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Well done, gents, that is such an impressive bit of kit. Simon told me we’ll have to wait a little while he polishes it up for production use, but I’m so keen to see that live on Scouta that I’m going to have serious trouble being patient! Definitely super-cool stuff!
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How awesome does ICCARUS look!!! well done Simon!
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Very impressive - can’t wait to play with it
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You’ve outdone yourself Simon, ICCARUS rocks.
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Viddler just featured Stewart’s video of your winning presentation. Cool!
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Thanks everyone! We’re in the middle of doing a screencast that’ll give everyone a better look at Iccarus.
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Thanks for all the positive comments! Hopefully soon we will have a stand alone client for friends to play with…
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matthew August 18th, 2007 at 15:11
From techcrunch, it quote
“The data is fetched via TurboGears and uses the GFX library to create the visual effects.”Is ICCARUS a web application or desktop application ? Turbogears is a web framework for python and GFX library is a java graphics library. So I presume that this run as applet or webstart application ?
ICCARUS is cool and can be used in data-mining to enhance social network relationship building.
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@Matthew:
ICCARUS is a desktop application, which talks to a TurboGears webservice on scouta.com. It is written in Python, and uses this GFX library:
http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/GFX/
to render the visuals. I found it a little weird that the TC article mentioned these minor technical implementation details…
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Did not see the presentation… but wanted to pass on something possibly of interest to you guys http://universe.daylife.com/
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travis October 30th, 2007 at 00:18
Outstanding work, although, I think you gentlemen need to speak to some of the fellows @ theReformed ( http://www.thereformed.org ) about what they had developed almost a decade before you.
I would hate to see your product get tied up in some dumb courtroom for no good reason.
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[...] Richard Giles and Simon Wittber from Scouta stepped up after major issues with the screen projector and gave us ICCARUS and won. Nick Cowie web-sledged us all and made us race off and make our sites work on the mobile web, and took out the second post. [...]
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The Not So Secret Life of Simone and Pascal » Blog Archive » WebJam en Web Awards August 25th, 2007 at 01:56
[...] Eerst was op woensdag WebJam, waar mensen presentaties konden geven van 3 minuten over iets waaraan ze gewerkt hebben op het web. Dat kon grappig zijn, interessant zijn, of mooi zijn. Een leuke avond in de Velvet Lounge in Mt Lawley. Vrijdag was het allemaal wat officieler (nou ja, zo begon het…. ), de WA Web Awards, in het Duxton Hotel. Een black tie event, met diner enz. Wij hadden geen kans op een award (voor enjoyperth dus), voornamelijk omdat ik het maar vreemd vond om mezelf te nomineren. Ja, ik heb er spijt van, was goede publiciteit geweest, ook al hadden we niet gewonnen! De avond eindigde in de Amplifier Bar. Was een grappig gezicht, wij in formele kleding dansen tussen alle ‘normale’ lui! [...]
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[...] “Data visualization is the new rock and roll”. Hmm, ok, maybe that’s a bit much, but data visualization tools can certainly help to make complex data easier to understand. After seeing some pretty impressive data visualizations of social networks for Last.fm and Scouta, it occurred to us that it might be interesting to try and visualize the StumbleUpon network. [...]
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[...] A 3D visualization of real-time data from scouta.com. It shows the relationship between members, friends, groups and items. [...]
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[...] A 3D ikon of real-time accumulation from scouta.com. It shows the traffic between members, friends, groups and items. [...]
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Bronwen August 16th, 2007 at 07:43