Cool Things on the Web

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Here are some interesting websites people in GSLIS have come accross. Feel free to share the cool websites you have stumbled accross.

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[edit] Temporary Links

It's from the NYT, so I'm not sure how long it will be freely available, but here's a link that has a graphical representation of a bunch of statistics on class (economic class, mostly). I've already spent an hour playing with it.

http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/national/20050515_CLASS_GRAPHIC/index_03.html

Ingbert

[edit] Library Related Links

Anonymous Library Cards:

[edit] Cool Visualizations

  • CODeDOC
Write a program to "connect and move three points in space" in under 8KB of code.
http://artport.whitney.org/commissions/codedoc/
Check out Golan Levin's "Axis" Map.
http://artport.whitney.org/commissions/codedoc/Levin/axis.html

[edit] Baby Names

[edit] News Visualizations

And, I also found this visualizer for the news - you gotta see it:

Similiar to the one developed by Ben Schneiderman's The Hive Group here:

[edit] Google Maps Goes Extraterrestrial

The URL says it all!!!!

[edit] Cool Toys

The things that will appear in Wired's Nextfest:

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.06/nextfest.html?tw=wn_story_top5

[edit] Popular Books on Weblogs

  • http://allconsuming.net
    • All Consuming is a website that watches weblogs for books that they're talking about, and displays the most popular ones on an hourly basis. (Hey, The Tipping Point is mentioned!)
  • from Eric Sizemore

[edit] Shortening Long URLs in Emails

Justa quick word to those of you posting really long URL's in email (which is all of us)

Check out:

TinyURL's self-promotion:
Are you sick of posting URLs in emails only to have it break when sent causing the recipient to have to cut and paste it back together? Then you've come to the right place. By entering in a URL in the text field below, we will create a tiny URL that will not break in email postings and never expires.

[edit] Answering Questions

[edit] Wondir

Wondir is an interesting new service that's like Google Answers without the experts: anyone can login and post any question. In addition to the system scraping various likely sources for answers the question, it's also put on a ticker for other Wondir users to reply to as best as they can (there's also a ratings system for users and their answers). The user-base is fairly thin at the moment, so the answers aren't always fast or terrific, but the ticker is great.

(The ticker is cracking me up! If you thought questions at the reference desk were funny.....-ES)

[edit] Furl

People have found furl to be extremely useful for keeping lists of bookmarks, and sharing them with others.

[edit] Flickr

[edit] Related Sites

Mappr - By adding geographical information to the wealth of photographs found on Flickr, it allows new ways of looking at spaces and images. (The link is to an example using 'Flowers')

[edit] Alternative Interfaces for Amazon

Since the Amazon API is so extensive, lots of people have been playing with creating new ways of searching through Amazon's catalog. Here are some people have liked.

[edit] Related Links

Other Fun Links

Resources for creating cool webpages, and lists of some examples:

The Folksonomy page.

The Ideas Category

The Fun Category

Searching the Web

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