Day 4 - Design Concepts

Clay, Karl, and I are experimenting with a new user interface for our public landing page. Here is a snippet from one of our concept sessions:

Day 3 - The Time Slider

So...a year is a long time in the technology world. Our current task is taking our Alpha program and re-constructing it in our new web-framework "Organon". This is certainly no small task, as it's been roughly a year since any major development on it...but in a few short days Karl has made some pretty significant progress - in fact our "time-slider" functionality is already working! This is good news for our own time-line.

But what IS the time slider? Well, its pretty neat. The time slider is a customized control mechanism that allows users to move forward and backward through time (selecting a "span" of time, with a start and end date) and ultimately view historical events within those parameters as animation sequences. These animation sequences consist of an aggregation of user generated content: points, polygons, lines, text, 3D models, and more.

Of of the most interesting components of the Time Slider is our embedded 3D modeling viewer. Major historical "objects" (buildings, people, machines, landmarks) are placed inside of the slider to represent visually where the user is at in time.

More to come on this later!

-ben

Day 2 - Interactive Mapping

On a major news outlet today, this amazing (not) interactive map was featured on an article about the destructive Joplin Tornado.

You could click on the T and it gave you really poor info about that particular tornado. Other than a basic visual of where they hit, this map was worthless to me.

A Time Trail of the 2011 tornado outbreak, which has claimed over 500 lives, would be very interesting.

A Time Trail interactive map would show the destruction over time, would link to photo galleries of the storm, would contain all the public domain scientific info on the storm, and much more.

The general news-consuming public is finally getting used to dynamic interactive presentations embedded in their daily dose of spoon fed garbage. Why not make it a better experience?

-Ben

Day 1 - ToDo List

Today's List:

Things we are overcoming right now:

1. Data Storage
2. Code Management
3. Semantic Definitions
4. Core Technology
5. Workspace
6. Time Trails in Organon

This may not seem important from one point of view, or plausible from another, but it's the difference between a year ago, or 2 years ago, and now. Part of the spirit that continues to move the business forward is renewal. The challenges and responses we make are evolving day by day, because the technology world is moving. (Luckily, mostly in our direction.)

-Karl

Day 1 - Hello Again

So many times we've been to the drawing board, so many times we find ourselves wandering straight back to the drawing board.

This time, we are clearing the slate & cleaning out the closet.

The following will be a resurrection of our first blog "every day counted" in which we blogged the first 100 days of our venture. That was almost exactly 2 years ago.

Stay tuned for lots of excitement.