Our latest project is a revamp of our SXSW Zeitgeist (no longer online) for Internet Week. It features a new design and new features. Check it out.

Our SXSW edition was hand-crafted for the SXSW experience, including an animated map with 100 hand-picked locations, natural language processing, and sentiment tracking (is the party good? is there a line? is the bar crowded?).

Our Internet Week edition is also heavily customized to reflect the unique nature of the event. It's lighter weight, to better accommodate the distributed nature and different flavor, and to make the most of the data that is available.

Spotter's Guide

Amy Hoy and Thomas Fuchs' Photo

Hi, there.

slash7 is Amy Hoy (@amyhoy) and Thomas Fuchs (@madrobby): interaction buffs, language ninjas, code cowboys, armchair sociologists, hired guns.

We combine our talents to produce the interface uncommon: useful, stunning, revealing, unexpected & mesmerizing interactive software.

We have limited availability for consulting on uncommon interactive projects involving visualization and/or sense-making and data mining from public (or private!) data APIs.

Write us

Email away: biz@slash7.com

Our projects

Things we're collaborating on:

  • PepsiCo Zeitgeist: Internet Week, concept, design & development
  • PepsiCo Zeitgeist: SXSW (offline, videos), our groundbreaking Twitter visualizer, described as "the mashup everyone's talking about" by the Guardian Digital Content Blog
  • Pepsi Refresh Coachella (offline), music festival + Twitter
  • twistori, our first excursion into Twitter visualizations, serving up 4 mil page views a month (described as "gentle and intelligent" by NYT Magazine)
  • Twistori Desktop, a fully-customizable Mac version of twistori
  • freckle, our uncommon take on time tracking
  • CreativeScrape, our strike at the annoyance of feed readers
  • JavaScript Performance Rocks!, our beta ebook on rich web app performance

Plaudits

Not to toot our own horns too much, but... you might have seen our zeitgeist project with PepsiCo at SXSWi 2009 or Internet Week New York 2009, twistori was featured in the IEEE InfoVis 2008 Art Exhibit, and Ray Ozzie thinks we're cool.

Our Twitter/visualization work has been featured in the New York Times Magazine (here and here), NY Times' Bits blog (here), Brand Week (here), the Guardian print edition (two times) and Digital Content blog, Business Week, the Telegraph, ReadWriteWeb, and Venture Beat, among others.