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Foursquare check-ins represented in a pulsing visual map

March 23rd, 2013 Comments Off

Four days of Foursquare check-ins in one minute

Foursquare check-ins show the pulse of New York City and Tokyo from Foursquare on Vimeo.

Foursquare has released an amazing video which utilizes check-in data by individuals across New York and Tokyo and represents them in colour coded streaks across the cities. This video used a years worth of check-in data.

The check-ins are colour coded based on the type of venue where it is made, like residential, food plazas, night spots etc. A dot represents a single check-in. A line represents a sequential check-in. So you can observe hot spots of red and yellow during the day which shows people arriving at offices and schools or colleges. By late evening, they are slowly replaced by blue and green indicating the shift towards check-ins at night spots, hotels, cafes and art spots. New York city seems to be a throbbing mass of colour while Tokyo has a few concentrated spots connected by lines of green representing transport lines.

The video is incredibly striking when you consider that each streak of light is the contribution of an individual such as yourself. It also goes to show the scale on which this data is measured. Foursquare has over 30 million users and 5 million check-ins per day. Foursquare had made a similar video last October when Hurricane Sandy hit New York City.

Are you a Foursquare user? What ind of places do you check into the most? Do let us know here.

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Turn any website in to a 3D maze game with your smartphone and Chrome

March 22nd, 2013 Comments Off

Turn any website in to a 3D maze game with your smartphone and Chrome

A new Google Chrome experiment can turn any website into a 3D maze game which can be played using your smartphone or tablet. Google Chrome experiments is a platform for creating web experiments in your browser which can be based on HTML5, Canvas, SVG, and WebGL. The Google Chrome team themselves contribute to this project by releasing a fun experiment occasionally. Super Sync Sports was a Chrome experiment released recently that allowed you to play different kinds of sports using goofy avatars.

World Wide Maze on the other hand asks you to input the url to any website and generates a random maze out of it. The maze uses the elements of the web page to create an obstacle course through which you have to navigate a rolling steel ball. This steel ball can be controlled using your smartphone or tablet, provided it has Google Chrome on it. The site offers a few sites as levels for you to try out like the Google homepage, Google Jobs, the Nexus 4 homepage etc. The course is riddled with collectible gems which contribute to your score. Your score also depends on how quickly you complete the maze and reach your destination. Here’s the Techdivine website in a maze form below.

It’s got quite a winding path, so make sure to roll fast. Try it out and do share your high score with us here. Also let us know which Chrome experiment you enjoyed the most so far.

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