Could Facebook like and Tweet Buttons be used on physical installation?

These days, it is a must for each website to integrate a Facebook like and Tweet Button. These buttons are great for linking webpages with social networks, they provide an easy and straightforward way to share with your friends a web link and more.

Therefore, Are these buttons limited to be used in webpages? Can we use them on physical installations? are these technologies open?

Well, the answer is: it is possible to do that with Facebook like Button but not yet for Tweet Button.

I quote from Twitter documentation: “…in this early stage of the Tweet Button the count API is private.  As our systems scale we will look to make the count API public for developers to use…”

Meaning that, we still have to wait sometime until Twitter opens the Tweet Button so we will be able to use it in other applications beside integrating it within a webpage. I hope they have it done pretty soon!

creativosencordoba.com behind the scenes

On Monday we (colaborativa) released our brand new Visualization at creativosencordoba. I am very excited since it is the first time I collaborate developing a website… you know I am more an iphone/C++/arduino/linux programmer.. It all started with a research on how to visualize data on the web in an intuitive, clear and useful way. We decided a treemap was the most suitable way for representing the creative scene of Cordoba.

After that, few days of watching video tutorials about javascript, jquery and d3.js, which is the javascript library for creating amazing visualizations. The result treemap is very interactive allowing us to select one or more categories and then take a look at the people in Cordoba that are working on those areas. The best thing is that people are collaborating including more creatives so the treemap’s shape is continuously changing and giving us new and useful pieces of information.

Looking forward to doing more web visualizations soon!