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Google Reader in Plain English

If you don’t use Google Reader or don’t know what it is, then you should watch this video:

This video is by the people at Common Craft, who are experts at explaining technology. One of their best and most popular videos is Twitter in Plain English. I actually think that video helped increase Twitter usage!

Olympic Medal Visualization

The New York Times continues to impress me with their online visualizations. For the Olympics, they created an Olympic Medal Count Map, which shows results from the first Olympic games of the Modern era (1896) to the 2004 Athens Olympics.

[via Neatorama via Digg]

Where the Hell is Matt? @Yahoo!

Yahoo! has been under a lot of pressure recently, and I think this video proves they’re alive and well. Plus, I think this made me smile more than the original Where the Hell is Matt video. Good work, Yahoo!, great idea. But, next time, allow embedding on your videos.

Re-designing a Parking Garage

Axel Peemoeller developed a new wayfinding system for a parking garage in Melbourne. Words like UP, DOWN, IN, and OUT appear from certain angles. From other angles, it just looks like nonsensical lines.
With cities expanding very fast these days (e.g. Raleigh or a better example: Dubai), it seems like this attention to detail will always [...]