A friend of mine emailed this site to me the other day: colorbrewer. It's a site that will give you RGB, CMYK and HEX codes for different color shades for maps, including combinations that work for those that are color-blind, as well as "print-friendly" and "photo-copy safe." It's a pretty neat website that will let you see what a segmented map will look like with different color combinations.
This week in Made by Many, there's a blog post that's a Q&A with Ivo Jansch, who started up a mobile app company. He said something that resonated with me, and I think speaks to some of what Kristin was getting at in her presentation. He talks about a iPad app called Flipboard, which turns Facebook status updates and tweets into a magazine-like reading experience.
Jansch says, "It turns your Twitter and Facebook feeds into a very visual digital magazine. It's a very pleasant reading experience. The people at Flipboard understand the tablet use case and they understand how people like to read content these days."
Kristin made the point that iPads are an opportunity to combine the best of web and print, and I think Jansch is getting at that point by selecting Flipboard as his favorite app and describing it the way he did.
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