Archive for the 'Social Software' Category

Writing With Photos


So, it’s possible to spell words with Flickr photos, eh?

Kastner’s created a little gizmo to do just this from the photos of Flickr’s countless users.

» Respell Dharmasphere, or…

Spell your own: (on Kastner’s Flickrtext site)

(Refresh the resulting page to get new photo combinations)

Last.fm Music Radio Station

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Image by A is for Angie

<Wow> I’ve just discovered last.fm and audioscrobbler - two related websites that track what music you’re listening to and let others hear that music, through an internet radio broadcast.

Here is some music I’ve been listening to recently:

And related music:

Last.fm has generated this list of artists that I might like. Hmmm…

Read more…

Images From The World

Daisy Mural

So, I finally got around to getting into Flickr.com.

I first heard about this collective global photo community quite some time ago, but hadn’t delved into it until now. I’ve uploaded some of my recent photos and artwork based on them. Read more…

Video Blogging Tools

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Image by Doctor Paradox

Previously (here and here), the subject of creating and broadcasting videos came up.

So, for the benefit of anyone who is interested in making short videos (anything from 20 seconds long) and publishing them for all on the Web, I have gathered a few good resources to get you started: Read more…

Google a Gonna?

www.grokker.com

www.grokker.com is a search engine that displays the results of your information requests in a very interesting way…

In his excellent blog Semiologic, Denis de Bernard’s recent posting claims that Grokking ‘..is times more powerful that anything Google’s pathetically outperformed search engine will let you do. It deserves the blogosphere’s full attention.’

I agree … Grokking may not be perfect but it’s a step in the right (and for me inevitable) direction, away from linear search results toward a more visually compelling and intuituve data representation.