Hagai Cohen and prof. Mel Rosenberg are true master geeks.
Check out their two projects A compressor flute organ and a land skiing vehicle.
These guys are old school hard core! A true inspiration for us; the next generation.
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Master Geeks Hagai and Mel
Hagai Cohen and prof. Mel Rosenberg are true master geeks.
Check out their two projects A compressor flute organ and a land skiing vehicle.
These guys are old school hard core! A true inspiration for us; the next generation.
Sunday, May 17, 2009
Put your ear on the View Finder
Alexey Klimov (Алексей Климов) , photography expert and researcher, is using Feng-GUI to identify aesthetics in Synaesthesia photos, taken “from his ear” !
Synaesthesia - for some people letters are colored, numbers have a personality and when they hear music they see colourful images.
Synaesthesia explained at BBC http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7545888.stm
"I have started to photograph when I was eight-year old. It was the time of a black-and-white film and a house “red room” photo laboratory.
Since then I make at least one shot daily. I have read many books of known photo masters. I studied at art school.
But I have chosen other trade. The photo became my hobbies. Surprisingly, but my academic classical photos bored the viewers.
All has changed, when my wife has presented to me a mobile phone with the built in camera.
I began to photograph "from an ear" during telephone conversations. I aimed on hearing. Sight and all academic knowledge had a rest during such photographing. The man gets used to all. In three years I consider it natural to put the view-finder not my an eye, but to my ear. From hundred shots one turns out adequately. Such perfect shots it was typed on the whole photo-exhibition.”
Alexey Klimov Synaesthesia exhibition photos
http://www.foto3x4.narod.ru/Sinestes.html
http://foto3x4.narod.ru/Muzey.html
Today I have developed ability "to photograph from an ear" to level of regular " view-finder photographing". Viewers began to speak about photographer's style. Experts began to speak about mixture of feelings (Synesthesia). The doctor of neurosurgery marks effect of dreams: when our eyes are closed we have dreams, just like babies. After all, when we dream, hearing is not blocked as sight.
Unexpectedly, I have found out Feng-GUI which helps me to automatically analyze my photos. Using Feng-GUI I have found a way to select the photos which most please the viewers. Now my Feng-GUI tested photos are printed in several Russian magazines. Photos which I take "from the ear" began to be attractive.
We like to see ourselves in group photo. If we don't find out ourselves in a photo then we value it as a documentary or art one.
When we see people in photo, the first thing that comes to our mind is 'Do I know them?' and the second is 'Who are they?'
The city life has accustomed us to see thousand strangers every day.
Our brain doesn’t store flashing persons in long–term memory to protect itself against overload.
And this habit is transferred also to taking photo.
Moreover, we distinguish people in our dreams on familiar or strangers, though we can’t remember their features and details after waking up.
For one thing, could you describe their ears, nose, eyes and lips if it was required to make an identikit for criminal investigation? :)
And still most of us, while having got a city intelligent habit 'don’t examine', 'don’t stare at stranger' and so on, remained wild animals in a our souls, and we expect everything of each stranger.
That’s why we learned to monitor life space about us by off–center vision, and using hearing and tactile perception in transport.
So how we can portray this point of view in photo?
Right in this manner, off–center vision–like.
You have to construct a shot so that the spectator didn’t look at an unfamiliar portrait, and was mown, intuitively listened, or even sniffed it.
So he didn’t stare at the person, like he’s looking at a monkey behind glass.
And the mathematics, 'queen of all sciences', allows to make it.
The first impression of a man is the strongest.
It is a wonder why nature and society together have developed this special first glance for creating a first impression of a stranger.
We do not stare straight at a person at the first encounter (unless we work in an HR department).
However, quick glances at the face, peripheral, panoramic view of a stranger's position in the interior, the elevated attention to information from all our senses — this is what provides the very first impression.
How to convey the first impression with a photo?
Especially, if the model is in fact well familiar to you?
The viewer does not have the intuitive barriers against staring at the monitor or the pages of a photo album.
The viewer can shamelessly eye a stranger's photo, feeling secure.
How to convey to the viewer the anxiety that he would experience if he met in person the man in the photo?
About the author
Alexey Klimov, a resident of the city of Oryol, is the author of over fifty publications on digital photography in magazines “Computerra”, "Home Computer" and “Hard and Soft”. Candidate of technical sciences, associate professor, Ph.D at Oryol State Technical University
http://www.computerra.ru/Authors/793/offline.html
http://www.computerra.ru/magazine/357229/
Feng-GUI have kindly given me possibility to analyze my exhibition photos.
I have use Feng-GUI to automatically search for pictures who most pleased the viewers. Almost all from them have shown a similar arrangement of zones of attention (hetamap). Thus, that the photographer style can be calculated without the aid of man-critics.
Synaesthesia - for some people letters are colored, numbers have a personality and when they hear music they see colourful images.
Synaesthesia explained at BBC http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7545888.stm
"I have started to photograph when I was eight-year old. It was the time of a black-and-white film and a house “red room” photo laboratory.
Since then I make at least one shot daily. I have read many books of known photo masters. I studied at art school.
But I have chosen other trade. The photo became my hobbies. Surprisingly, but my academic classical photos bored the viewers.
All has changed, when my wife has presented to me a mobile phone with the built in camera.
I began to photograph "from an ear" during telephone conversations. I aimed on hearing. Sight and all academic knowledge had a rest during such photographing. The man gets used to all. In three years I consider it natural to put the view-finder not my an eye, but to my ear. From hundred shots one turns out adequately. Such perfect shots it was typed on the whole photo-exhibition.”
Alexey Klimov Synaesthesia exhibition photos
http://www.foto3x4.narod.ru/Sinestes.html
http://foto3x4.narod.ru/Muzey.html
Today I have developed ability "to photograph from an ear" to level of regular " view-finder photographing". Viewers began to speak about photographer's style. Experts began to speak about mixture of feelings (Synesthesia). The doctor of neurosurgery marks effect of dreams: when our eyes are closed we have dreams, just like babies. After all, when we dream, hearing is not blocked as sight.
Unexpectedly, I have found out Feng-GUI which helps me to automatically analyze my photos. Using Feng-GUI I have found a way to select the photos which most please the viewers. Now my Feng-GUI tested photos are printed in several Russian magazines. Photos which I take "from the ear" began to be attractive.
We like to see ourselves in group photo. If we don't find out ourselves in a photo then we value it as a documentary or art one.
When we see people in photo, the first thing that comes to our mind is 'Do I know them?' and the second is 'Who are they?'
The city life has accustomed us to see thousand strangers every day.
Our brain doesn’t store flashing persons in long–term memory to protect itself against overload.
And this habit is transferred also to taking photo.
Moreover, we distinguish people in our dreams on familiar or strangers, though we can’t remember their features and details after waking up.
For one thing, could you describe their ears, nose, eyes and lips if it was required to make an identikit for criminal investigation? :)
And still most of us, while having got a city intelligent habit 'don’t examine', 'don’t stare at stranger' and so on, remained wild animals in a our souls, and we expect everything of each stranger.
That’s why we learned to monitor life space about us by off–center vision, and using hearing and tactile perception in transport.
So how we can portray this point of view in photo?
Right in this manner, off–center vision–like.
You have to construct a shot so that the spectator didn’t look at an unfamiliar portrait, and was mown, intuitively listened, or even sniffed it.
So he didn’t stare at the person, like he’s looking at a monkey behind glass.
And the mathematics, 'queen of all sciences', allows to make it.
The first impression of a man is the strongest.
It is a wonder why nature and society together have developed this special first glance for creating a first impression of a stranger.
We do not stare straight at a person at the first encounter (unless we work in an HR department).
However, quick glances at the face, peripheral, panoramic view of a stranger's position in the interior, the elevated attention to information from all our senses — this is what provides the very first impression.
How to convey the first impression with a photo?
Especially, if the model is in fact well familiar to you?
The viewer does not have the intuitive barriers against staring at the monitor or the pages of a photo album.
The viewer can shamelessly eye a stranger's photo, feeling secure.
How to convey to the viewer the anxiety that he would experience if he met in person the man in the photo?
About the author
Alexey Klimov, a resident of the city of Oryol, is the author of over fifty publications on digital photography in magazines “Computerra”, "Home Computer" and “Hard and Soft”. Candidate of technical sciences, associate professor, Ph.D at Oryol State Technical University
http://www.computerra.ru/Authors/793/offline.html
http://www.computerra.ru/magazine/357229/
Thursday, April 30, 2009
JSON joins the services supported formats
This one is for you AJAX lovers out there.
Feng-GUI web services now supports JSON (JavaScript Object Notation).
You may find the JSON end point at http://service.feng-gui.com/json/api.ashx
Note: Only registered customers can access the web services.
Feng-GUI web services now supports JSON (JavaScript Object Notation).
You may find the JSON end point at http://service.feng-gui.com/json/api.ashx
Note: Only registered customers can access the web services.
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Lost in Conversion?
Lost in Conversion? Unleash the power of web analytics to improve conversion rates.
Web analytics and conversion optimization is probably the biggest untapped opportunity within online marketing, particularly in a time of economic downturn.
Within this GarageGeeks session, you be exposed to best practices and new developments in measurability, user behavior analysis and proven conversion rate tactics.
Conversion is the New Black!
Itai Levitan, Co-CEO and Daniel Waisberg, Head of Web Analytics, easynet search marketing http://www.easynet.co.il
Google Analytics & Website Optimizer an Overview
Nir Bar-Lev, Head of Analysis Products, EMEA at Google
From Porn to AI in 20 slides.
Rafael Mizrahi, http://www.Feng-GUI.com
Reveal the mystery of what visitors are doing inside your webpage
Dr. Tal Schwartz, Founder and CEO, ClickTale
http://www.clicktale.com
NuConomy - next generation personalization and advertising platform based on advanced user level Analytics.
http://www.NuConomy.com
Session Summary
Itai Levitan of easynet search marketing.
- Mingle and Mangal
The event will take place on Thursday, March 12th, 20:00, at the GarageGeeks HQ (Hapeled 40, Holon).
Thursday, February 05, 2009
Digital Innovators Summit
Feng-GUI is invited by the 'New Media' Sector at the Israel Export Institute to present at the Digital Innovators Summit, Berlin.
We will be presenting at the "Innovative Companies: Analytics and Ad Management" Panel, with Microsoft Advertising and ClickTale.
VDZ, the Association of German Magazine Publishers, along with
www.emediasf.com and CeBIT are hosting the "Digital Innovators Summit" which bring together dynamic companies to present their digital media concepts and offerings.
The conference will be held on March 3-4, 2009 at the Deutsche Telekom Conference Center, Franzo"sische Strase 33a-c, 10117 Berlin, Germany.
Feng-GUI welcome the "Digital Innovators Summit" participants.
You can access the Dashboard using the Feng-GUI XNIP-Code (as username/password) found at the summit program.
Thursday, January 29, 2009
January 2009 reviews
Feng-GUI reviews: January 2009
The Acagamic - Top Ten Eye Tracking Blogs
Er. Krushna Chandra Muni15 must have web developer tools for beginners
Michaela Cernescu, Website design – Find out if your Website is meeting its usability requirements
Red Spider - What do visitors see when they come to your website?
CoolCreation - Cheap Website Design
My SEO Books blog http://myseobooks.com/2009/01/09/a-simulator-eye-tracking-to-test-its-interfaces-2/
http://myseobooks.com/2009/01/09/interview-with-rafael-mizrahi-feng-gui/
Real Virtual Skater project at
Engadget, MAKE Magazine and UberGizmo
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
November reviews 2008
33 Free Tools to Make Your Website Better
http://onehalfamazing.com/2008/11/33-free-tools-to-make-your-website-better/
http://www.grokdotcom.com/2008/11/13/33-free-tools-to-make-your-website-better/
http://noelbellen.blogspot.com/2008/11/33-free-tools-to-make-your-website.html
Search Engine Journal
http://www.searchenginejournal.com/check-your-site-usability-with-these-fun-tools/8042/
http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticleHomePage&art_aid=95106
Web Resources Depot
5 Sitepoint - Ways to Get Usability Testing on the Cheap
Diva Geek Designs: YES! The best Webdesign Tools Online
Julius Design
Teletext is dead, Creative OverDose
http://onehalfamazing.com/2008/11/33-free-tools-to-make-your-website-better/
http://www.grokdotcom.com/2008/11/13/33-free-tools-to-make-your-website-better/
http://noelbellen.blogspot.com/2008/11/33-free-tools-to-make-your-website.html
Search Engine Journal
http://www.searchenginejournal.com/check-your-site-usability-with-these-fun-tools/8042/
http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticleHomePage&art_aid=95106
Web Resources Depot
5 Sitepoint - Ways to Get Usability Testing on the Cheap
Diva Geek Designs: YES! The best Webdesign Tools Online
Julius Design
Teletext is dead, Creative OverDose
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
October 2008 reviews
October 2008 reviews.
and Mashable web design toolbox.
http://mashable.com/2008/11/05/web-design-toolbox/
frankwatching.com
wwwhatsnew.com
desarrolloweb.com
www.webpagedesign.com.au
www.tecnologiadiaria.com/
thanks!
and Mashable web design toolbox.
http://mashable.com/2008/11/05/web-design-toolbox/
frankwatching.com
wwwhatsnew.com
desarrolloweb.com
www.webpagedesign.com.au
www.tecnologiadiaria.com/
thanks!
Tuesday, November 04, 2008
is your website ready for the 5 seconds attention span challenge
After decades of TV, Radio, Magazines and now Internet, we find ourselves in a society overwhelmed by information begging for attention. As a result of that we have a world with an attention span now shorter than a goldfish’s. How is the media and specially the web facing that? And how can we take advantage on way the human mind works?
read the wonderful post by Mauricio Duque at snap2objects
Thanks!Mao
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Optimizing AdSense using Feng-GUI heatmap
Alex Barbadosa, from http://www.lessnau.com the AdSense blog, twits that
optimize your AdSense location and style using Feng-GUI heatmap.
I changed the position of www.riojob.com.br Adsense on my CRT and jumped from 0.5% to 3.50%. Establish in-www.feng gui.com (Heat Map) evolving ...
optimize your AdSense location and style using Feng-GUI heatmap.
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