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December 2009
Twitter Chatter During the Super Bowl - Interactive Map - NYTimes.com
by sbrothier
As the Steelers and Cardinals battled on the field, Twitter users across the nation pecked out a steady stream of "tweets." The map shows the location and frequency of commonly used words in Super Bowl related messages.
Cool Websites, Web Applications, and Mobile Tools
by cascamorto
& 1 other
Cool Web Apps * Art 42 * Blog Tools 77 * Bookmarking 76 * Browser / Browsing 96 * Buy / Sell 166 * Chat / VoIP 66 * CMS 4 * Collaboration 109 * Contacts 16 * Converters 100 * Crowd Wisdom 41 * Directories 41 * Discussions 16 * eMail 133 * Event Planners 58 * Feeds 70 * Finance 55 * Food 33 * for Businesses 109 * Freebies 47 * Fun 132 * Gadgets / Electronics 33 * Gaming 30 * Health/Sports 78 * Housing 38 * HowTo / Q&A 47 * Identity / Profile 55 * Jobs 14 * Kids / Family 65 * Maps / Directories 90 * Marketing 17 * Mashups 53 * Music 195 * News 39 * Other 255 * P2P / Torrents 38 * Philanthropy 10 * Photos / Images 278 * Podcasts / Vlogs 21 * Popular 12 * Reference 109 * Review Sites 42 * Search Engines 171 * Security/ Privacy 125 * Socialize 45 * Software Sources 27 * Startpages 31 * Stats / Trends 74 * Storage / Sharing 110 * Students / College 224 * ToDo / Calendars 104 * Travel 105 * Useless 3 * web Office 99 * web OS 4 * web TV 50 * web Video 168 * Webdesign 152 * Webmasters 177 * Widgets / Desktop 28 * Wiki 31 Mobile Tools and Apps * Ask Questions 5 * Buy / Sell 24 * Carrier Related 7 * Conference 6 * Contacts Manager 14 * Directory Services 17 * Documents 9 * eMail 11 * Event Planner 12 * FeedReader 8 * Finance 7 * Fun 9 * Games 8 * GPS 8 * iPod / iPhone 68 * Media Sharing 23 * Memo / Reminder 29 * Mobile Browsing 13 * Music 20 * Networking 17 * News 6 * Other 27 * Podcasts 6 * Privacy / Safety 8 * Reference 10 * Search Engines 9 * Startpage 5 * Text-Messages 35 * ToDo / Calendars 12 * Video 11 * Voicemail 12 * VoIP-Calling / Chat 17 * Wallpapers / Ringtones 29 * WiFi 3
November 2009
InstantShift | Web Designers and Developers Daily Resource.
by cascamorto
& 3 others
InstantShift is leading design and inspiration related community for web designers and developers daily resource and premium web design and development blog.
iShift offers content on various subjects ranging from basic HTML to Network Security. We generally publish in web design and development, social networking, CMS (content management systems), SEO/Meta tags content, java script and ajax, wordpress, photoshop, network & internet security, mobile applications/devices, hardware tech, e-commerce solutions & applications as well as best programming and coding practices. in and all, we have few major categories related to some particular aspect of web design and development.
Talking Papers: a world without data entry? « humanitarian | tech
by karlcow
This imaginative and insightful approach got me thinking about a related problem I’ve been keen to address for some time: data entry. How can we use paper as a more effective channel for information flow during and after humanitarian emergencies?
phpMyFAQ homepage - open source FAQ system for PHP and MySQL, PostgreSQL and other databases | features
by mozkart
& 1 other
phpMyFAQ 2.5 is a multilingual, completely database-driven FAQ-system. It supports various databases to store all data, PHP 5.2 (or higher) is needed in order to access this data. phpMyFAQ also offers a multi-language Content Management-System with a WYSIWYG editor and an Image Manager, flexible multi-user support with user and group based permissions on categories and records, a wiki-like revision feature, a news system, user-tracking, language modules, enhanced automatic content negotiation, templates, extensive XML-support, PDF-support, a backup-system, a dynamic sitemap, related articles, tagging, RSS feeds, built-in spam protection systems, LDAP support, and an easy to use installation script. phpMyFAQ 2.5 offers the following features:
WordNet Search - 3.0
by ycc2106
WordNet® is a large lexical database of English, developed under the direction of George A. Miller. Nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs are grouped into sets of cognitive synonyms (synsets), each expressing a distinct concept. Synsets are interlinked by means of conceptual-semantic and lexical relations. The resulting network of meaningfully related words and concepts can be navigated with the browser. WordNet is also freely and publicly available for download. WordNet's structure makes it a useful tool for computational linguistics and natural language processing.
The Berlin Wall: 20 Years Later - The Berlin Wall Through Time - Interactive Feature - NYTimes.com
by sbrothier
& 1 other
SNAKING ALONG, cutting through fields and streets, yards and gardens, the 28-mile-long Berlin Wall stood as a border between East and West Berlin from 1961 to 1989.
That all changed on Nov. 9, 1989, when an inexact translation, a confused border guard and a natural longing for a better life opened a hole in that wall that would eventually end the Cold War. Related Coverage | Article
Full Interview: Viktor Mayer-Schönberger on forgetting in a digital age | Spark | CBC Radio
by karlcow
That means that Google has more informational power over us, and that’s a concern. A related concern is the fact that we must understand and realize whatever we say today will or might be held against us in the future.
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October 2009
Book Review - 'The Tyranny of E-Mail - The Four-Thousand-Year Journey to Your Inbox,' by John Freeman - Review - NYTimes.com
by paulantoinem
On a recent weekday, 126 messages made it to my e-mail in-box. Twenty-five were directed to me and me alone: 14 from friends or family, nine business-related and the other two conveying timel ...
ASK KEN™ – Visual Knowledge Browser on Datavisualization.ch
by karlcow
AKS KEN is basically a textual search engine and the matching entires from Freebase are visualized as a ring chart. The user can then drill down the wedges and unveil related ring charts. Images and a textual description to each topic are shown in a separate drawer on the right hand side.
USGS Twitter Earthquake Detector : GIS Lounge - Geographic Information Systems
by karlcow
The USGS is now testing out Twitter to collect early response information about earthquakes: “the USGS is developing a system that gathers real-time, earthquake-related messages from the social networking site Twitter and applies place, time, and quantity data to provide geo-located earthquake detection within 60 seconds of an event’s origin time.“ Social media can be a valuable tool in helping to assess earthquake hazards through anecdotal information from hundreds and potentially thousands of local users.
Sound advice - blog
by karlcow
A significant weakness of HTTP in my view is its dependence on the MIME standard for media type identification and on the related iana registry. This registry is a limited bottleneck that does not have the capacity to deal with the media type definition requirements of individual enterprises or domains. Machine-centric environments rely in a higher level of semantics than the human-centric environment of the Web. In order for machines to effectively exploit information, every unique schema of information needs to be standardised in a media type and for those media types to be individually identified. The number of media types grows as machines become more dominant in a distributed computing environment and as the number of distinct environments increases.
My Twitter Weighs a Ton
by ycc2106
Analyzes and counts related words in your Twitterstream to determine what you're tweeting about the most. Read More.
Linguistics Meets Linux: Morphix-NLP
by m.meixide
NLP (Natural Language Processing) has been an important research field for about 40 years. Incorporating lingustics and computer science methods, this broad topic has many different application areas as well as important problems to solve. Analysing huge files of different languages, discovering patterns, making transformations, categorizing text, analysing and synthesizing speech, making the computers understand the semantics of language data, etc. are all related to NLP in one way or the other.
GUIdebook: Graphical User Interface gallery
by sbrothier
& 20 others
Welcome to guidebook, a website dedicated to preserving and showcasing Graphical User Interfaces, as well as various materials related to them.
September 2009
50 Great Examples of Data Visualization | Webdesigner Depot
by sbrothier
& 4 others
Wrapping your brain around data online can be challenging, especially when dealing with huge volumes of information.
And trying to find related content can also be difficult, depending on what data you’re looking for.
But data visualizations can make all of that much easier, allowing you to see the concepts that you’re learning about in a more interesting, and often more useful manner.
Below are 50 of the best data visualizations and tools for creating your own visualizations out there, covering everything from Digg activity to network connectivity to what’s currently happening on Twitter.
MusicBrainz
by rmaltete
& 29 others
MusicBrainz is a community music metadatabase that attempts to create a comprehensive music information site. You can use the MusicBrainz data either by browsing this web site, or you can access the data from a client program — for example, a CD player program can use MusicBrainz to identify CDs and provide information about the CD, about the artist or about related information. You can also use the MusicBrainz Tagger to automatically identify and clean up the metadata tags in your digital music collections. Find out more in the introduction.
epulze
by ycc2106
With ePulze, individuals and organizations can easily monitor, track and analyze the sentiment result for one or more subjects or topics. Using internet as the main resources, ePulze extract comments, opinions, reviews and news from forums, social networking site, blogs and related websites, automatically identify subjects and topics in the unstructured information and apply our patent-pending technology based on computational linguistics and artificial intelligence to automatically derive the sentiment expressed in the unstructured information.
SML Wiki: Interestingness(note: work in progress)
by decembre
Interestingness is a media (images, videos, etc) ranking algorithm to provide as an additional metric for search results. The algorithm is based upon an algorithm created by the Flickr team, and is further enhanced by metadata knowledge resulted from the Del.icio.us development. The algorithm was first unveiled publicly on Flickr on 2005-08-01.1 SML.SML: Interestingness = f(views, faves, comments, tags, time, user, network relationships); The ranking is based on one or more of the following factors: * the quantity of user-entered metadata2 (i.e. tags) * the number of users who have assigned metadata3 * the number of favorites assigned to the photo4 * relationship between the person who uploaded the photo and the people who are commenting5 * access patterns related to the media object6 (i.e. where the clickthroughs are coming from; who comments on it and when)7 * a lapse of time related to the media object8 (i.e. velocity of metadata acquisition)
Thinkmap Visual Thesaurus - An online thesaurus and dictionary of over 145,000 words that you explore using an interactive map.
by ycc2106
& 14 others
The Visual Thesaurus is an interactive dictionary and thesaurus which creates word maps that blossom with meanings and branch to related words. Its innovative display encourages exploration and learning. You'll understand language in a powerful new way. Using the applet is not free.
