Originally published on metropolis.co.jp on February 2011

Carl Jones says: “The Global Mood Clocks app is inspired by the classic office decoration of a ‘wall of clocks’ that displays local time for multiple global cities. Grey Canada has updated that concept for the virtual office with a unique clock interface that displays real-time visualization of data trends on Flickr, Twitter and Google. Global Mood Clocks has now been released as an Adobe AIR app for Mac & PC, with an iPhone version coming soon. [It] works by pulling geo-tagged data for a diverse selection of major cities around the world, including Los Angeles, New York and Toronto, as well as Moscow, Rio de Janeiro and Shanghai. The clocks, in addition to telling time, reflect the ‘mood’ of a city by showing the dominant color from the latest geo-tagged photo uploads to Flickr, as well as the top Google search and Twitter trending word, all in real time.”

http://moodclock.greycanada.com/#/moodclock