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This month
July 2008
16 Awesome Data Visualization Tools
From navigating the Web in entirely new ways to seeing where in the world twitters are coming from, data visualization tools are changing the way we view content. We found the following 16 apps both visually stunning and delightfully useful.
Photojojo » Photojojo’s Favorite Flickr Add-ons and Mashups
As if Flickr weren’t awesome enough, developers across the world can create, using Flickr’s Application Programming Interface (API), tools, plug-ins, and services to work with your Flickr photos.
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June 2008
LINQ.Flickr - Home
LINQ.Flickr is a Flickr API that can be used to query (search by tag, literal or user) , insert or delete photos, add/ delete comments, query popular tags, people and more.
Visual Traceroute - Trace Route Visual
Following on from the server location lookup tool, we provide a geographical traceroute. This may prove useful if you want to know the path to your server or certain IP address.
Server IP Location Lookup
For SEO purposes it maybe useful to locate servers in the country you wish to serve. For example, if you are targeting the UK market, thus UK search engines then it maybe advantageous to your websites position on the search engine results pages to host your website in the UK. Hosting in your target country may also increase customer satisfaction as webpages will load quicker and have faster response times.
MapJack
Immerse yourself in panoramic views of Yosemite National Park; Chiang Mai, Thailand; and San Francisco using MapJack, a new alternative to Google Street View and Microsoft's Live Search Maps. MapJack has brighter, sharper photos than the others, and better navigation tools. To start exploring, just click and drag the icon of a person along the map in the bottom half of your browser; the photographic images in the upper portion will automatically refresh. Start-ups like Earthmine and EveryScape are developing similar next-gen maps, but for now, MapJack offers the best preview of the future of digital mapping.
