We’re a winner at the Vodafone Smart Accessibility Awards!!
The Zoom Plus Video Magnifier app we developed in cahoots with Ian Hamilton and with the assistance of the Digital Accessibility Centre has been announced as the winner of the Independent Living category. For more information please see the VSAA2011 winners press release.
Zoom Plus Video Magnifier app allows people with visual impairments such as cataracts and long sightedness, as well as some forms of dyslexia, to easily read text by applying a magnifier, and adjusting the colours of the font and background.
Vodafone
Find out more about the four winning apps in this article by The Guardian “Winners names at Vodafone Smart Accessibility Awards” or by clicking on the video supplied by Vodafone below.
Below are some photos from the awards ceremony (images courtesy of Simon Rockman), which was held simultaneously in Brussels and at the global M-Enabling summit in Washington.
All of the shortlisted apps were of an incredibly high standard and made a genuine difference, changing people’s lives for the better, so we’re honoured to be announced the winners of our category. For more information on all of the apps that were shortlisted please check out this article from the Guardian – Flying the flag for smart accessibility apps
We’re continuing our work on Zoom Plus Video Magnifier leading towards a full version 1.0 release in the near future so if you have any questions about the app please either drop us an email or comment below and we’ll get back to you as soon as we can.
Bett Awards Finalist
The Something Special website we worked on for CBeebies has made the 2012 BETT Awards Shortlist under the “ICT Special Educational Needs Solutions” category. The final winners will be announced on the 11th Jan. For more information about the project check out our Something Special Website post.
MediaGuardian Innovation Awards Nominee
Our work for Tweetminster came runner up in the ‘Use of Web Platforms’ category of the MediaGuardian Innovation Awards 2010! Unfortunately we we’re pipped at the post by our friends over at the BBC. I guess it’s time to look back at the many things we created over the past year for Tweetminster…
ITV Election Special Widget
ITV struck a deal with Tweetminster to create various widgets for their Election Special homepage. Our task was to create a simple news ticker that would stream live Twitter sentiment analytics around the three major parties and their leaders.
The Tweetometer
A simple tool that utilises the Twitter Api to compare the number of tweets over a 24 hour period for two variables to see which is more popular. It was originally intended for political reasons (e.g. compare David Cameron with Gordon Brown) however we opened it up so the user could input any variables…just because it’s more fun…
The Tweetminster Wire Lite
Built in Adobe Air this was the desktop version of the Tweetminster Wire. Think of it as the TweetDeck for politics, the Wire Lite pulled in political tweets into a customisable interface and featured a neat little graph which gave the user the ability to view tweet sentiment over any given time period.
The Tweetminster Map Visualisation
Created for the run up to the General Election, this online tool analysed tweets sentiment and turned the data into multiple visualisations from Pie Charts to Constituency and regional maps.
The Tweetminster Live Wire
After the success of the Wire Lite it became apparent that we needed to create a version that could be accessed online. The Tweetminster Live Wire was born.
We’re in Wired Mag!
Our founder and director Neil Glenister has made Wired (Dec 09 issue) ‘The Twitterati’ list.
“It remains unclear how Twitter will make any actual cash, but there’s a thriving UK cottage industry writing software for it. So we brought together its stars to ask: what are you doing?”
Wired Editor
We were featured in Wired magasine for the numerous twitter apps we created on behalf of Tweetminster and are proud to have our picture alongside some very notable names. Neil is on the right…(in the *cough* pink shirt *cough*)
Desktop App Featured In Computer Arts Mag
We’re proud to announce that the desktop app we recently built for Tweetminster was featured in Computer Arts Projects mag issue 125. Computer Arts had this to say about our app:
Tweetminsters Adobe Air-based Wire service incorporates topical news stories, courtesy of The Guardian’s Open Platform API. Now when comparing terms, you can click on any date on the graph to pull relevant articles from The Guardian about that term, published on that day.
Computer Arts Projects Magasine Editor
The main challenge with Tweetminster is definitely managing such large amounts of information in real time – both in terms of finding a balance from a systems architecture perspective, and in terms of figuring out what’s relevant as the volume of the conversation grows. In both cases, it’s about constantly trialling and experimenting”.
Alberto Nardelli
