Multipane browser to offer choice. The idea of mSpace is that by supporting in context and user-dertermined organization of information, we may be able to build new knowledge, ask new kinds of questions that aren't always readily expressable for a search engine. http://mspace.fm/ helps people build knowledge from exploring relationships in information, by offering several powerful tools for organizing an information space to suit a person's interest: slicing, sorting, swapping, infoViews and preview cues. While the use of a multipane browser is not in itself new, the operations available on it, slicing, sorting, swapping, adding, subtracting, detail view at each element for each category, is.
InfoViews ( Lots of information. One window) ; idea here is that people get a lot of associated information in one window. No clicking through openning and closing a menagerie of links and windows, trying to remember what goes with what.
Preview Cues. (Text is great, but sometimes, it's just not enough)
Choice. Organize information the way you want it.
News article : http://www.vnunet.com/news/1161405 The mSpace framework software is available for download from SourceForge.

Concept-mapping lets the user browse through the collection after entering an initial keyword and then branch out to look up related key terms. : http://www.mccord-museum.qc.ca/en/search/ Form querying provides greater precision, while concept-mapping, being linked to term frequency, is a much broader consultation tool.

As We May Think (by Vannevar Bush) : http://www.ps.uni-sb.de/~duchier/pub/vbush/vbush-all.shtml compared to GreatMap http://www.1-900-870-6235.com/Images/ManifestoX.html Visualization at http://www.1-900-870-6235.com/Images/UserInterface.jpg

Possible Map Names:
WORST: Butcher Jones Beach,“Snake Butt", Valley of Desolation, Executioner's Drop, Disaster Mountain, Dismal Swamp, Rockbottom, Mount Misery, Dead Man's Swamp, Cataract Void
BEST: Paradise, Garden of the Gods, Hallelujah Hills, Touch of Nature, Discovery Park, Flying Horseshoe, Crocodile Creek, Soldier's Delight, Non-Smoker's Flat, Tornado Alley, Goblin's Glen
from http://www.dontgetlost.ca/gho/mapnames.pdf.

"The function of art is to hold the mirror up to nature." -
"Beethoven was so deaf, all his life he thought he was painting." -
"I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun." - Thomas Alva Edison

Hyperwords Menu research project ( under-funded, bleeding-edge, demo and exploration); "...giving the professional user a more flexible work environment in which he or she can more flexibly navigate through information, change the way it's portrayed and relate it to other information." : http://www.liquidinformation.org/index-fr.html

Interesting how landmarks are displayed in Google Maps ( in French); "important objects have to wait until the 9th or 10th level of zoom while some selections (like large? historic landmarks or golf courses) appear at very low levels of zooms.” http://www.mcwetboy.net/maproom/2005/02/map_sites_hints_tips_and_observations.phtml

Interfaces Magazine : http://www.bcs-hci.org.uk/interfaces.html (back issues)
UsabilityNet : http://www.usabilitynet.org/home.htm

Pay-Per-Call: A New Avenue for Search Marketers : http://searchenginewatch.com/searchday/article.php/3484621

"The happiest people do not necessarily have the best of everything. What they have, is the ability to extract the best from anything that comes their way." - ?
"Dream what you want. Go where you feel good. Be what you would like to be. There is only one life and one possibility to do what you really want. Do it!" -
" All men are created equal, but ambition soon separates them." -
"If the world as it appears does not satisfy me, well then, what does? This I must discover." -

"We're interested in developing new interfaces that reduces the costs of understanding information." User Interface Research (UIR) is a research group in the Information Sciences & Technology Lab at PARC also work on novel graphical user interface techniques such as 3D and 2D information visualization and large format displays. : http://www2.parc.com/istl/projects/uir/ Unlike classical HCI, much of the interaction is at the level of the information itself, rather than at the level of the device, and the semantic content of the information is hugely important (info maps?). Projects ; http://www2.parc.com/istl/projects/uir/projects/index.html Publications ; http://www2.parc.com/istl/projects/uir/publications/project/index.html

Testing prototype : http://www.1-900-870-6235.com/FibonacciZoom/ZoomTest//3LevelZoom4.htm

How to protect pictures and graphics? There are JavaScript techniques to disable the right click; there are masking techniques whereby another (transparent) image is superimposed over the one you wish to protect; there are mouseover and mouseout techniques that flip the image to something else when the mouse is over it, or change the page completely as the mouse encroaches; there are a variety of other coding techniques that people have come up with to prevent downloads. (None of these techniques works). Regardless of the methods used to make capture off the displayed page more difficult, the individual files remain in the cache until they are purged. If the page can be displayed, they images can be saved.

FreeMind is a premier free mind-mapping software written in Java. : http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

Timeline (using Dreamweaver), allows you to be able to simulate animation using a timeline feature they have created with JavaScript. : http://www.michael-thomas.com/tech/dreamweaver/timeline/index.htm

Google Maps are a new approach to web applications that we call Ajax (Asynchronous JavaScript + XML; core technologies that are mature, stable, and well understood), and it represents a fundamental shift in what's possible on the Web. Tthe challenges are for the designers of these applications are to forget what we think we know about the limitations of the Web, and begin to imagine a wider, richer range of possibilities." http://www.adaptivepath.com/publications/essays/archives/000385.php
standards-based presentation using XHTML and CSS;
dynamic display and interaction using the Document Object Model;
data interchange and manipulation using XML and XSLT;
asynchronous data retrieval using XMLHttpRequest;
and JavaScript (The World's Most Misunderstood Programming Language; http://www.crockford.com/javascript/javascript.html ) binding everything together.

Science (database-driven) Timeline project : http://www.timelinescience.org/index.php

An effective tool for online research / writing (clipboard capture to HTML publishing) : http://www.brainstormsw.com/bm.html

Golden Ratio resources : http://mathworld.wolfram.com/topics/GoldenRatio.html

321 Definitions of the word 'map', 1649-1996 : http://www.usm.maine.edu/~maps/essays/andrews.htm

"There comes a point where the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge, but can never prove how it got there. All great discoveries have involved such a leap" - Einstein
"We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are." - Anais Nin
"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away." - Henry David Thoreau, Walden, Conclusion, 1854
"It is the essence of genius to make use of the simplest ideas." - Charles Deguy
"Ideas are very much like children - your own are wonderful." - unknown

Resource for multi-facetted, cubist, collaged approaches to visualizations : http://debrafrasier.com/cla_sup_downloads/cutpaperbib.pdf

A product map is a graphic representation of the ways people perceive products in terms of underlying attributes, as well as an aid in understanding their preferences. : http://www.sawtoothsoftware.com/cpm.shtml

"What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do. Never lose a chance: it doesn't come every day." - George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion, Act 2
"It is better to eat bread bought with money you enjoyed earning, than eat cake bought with money you did not." -
"There are two times in a man's life when he should use a map; when he is lost, and before he is." - Ron Wild

Drill Down Server (Demo : http://www.telcontar.com/contact/index.html) : http://www.telcontar.com/demos/dds.html technology used by GoogleMaps +

http://www.nixlog.com/infographics/ (a running collection of links to infographics found on the web) : Often more powerful than words or imagery alone, infographics utilize visual elements of design and words to convey a message in such a way that context, meaning and understanding are trancended to the observer in a manner not previously experienced. Historical perspective : http://www.math.yorku.ca/SCS/Gallery/historical.html and
Milestones in the History of Thematic Cartography, Statistical Graphics, and Data Visualization : http://www.math.yorku.ca/SCS/Gallery/milestone/

Information mapping : http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/2003/01/15.html

"A meeting of minds comes easier when no one minds the meeting." - ?