Stuff that’s been floating around the office – March 2009
I know March isn’t quite over yet but if I waited any longer, this list would have grown too big. So here goes:
1. Informapping: Interested in knowing which parts of the world have the most news stories on a map? Or maybe you want to look at new stories by geographical region? This is for you then.
2. My Twitter Weighs A Ton: How much does your Twitter account weigh?
3. Ron Winter – Drums: For all the drum-lovers out there – create a ruckus. (Warning: you’d better have your headphones on or your co-workers are going to give you the look!)
4. Beautiful Moleskine Art: Because at Made By Many, we all love our moleskines. Plus, some of this art is really good. I wish I could draw like that. Here’s an example:
5. New York Times Data Visualizations: One Flickr user has experimented with the New York Times API – and he’s collected all of them on his Flickr page.
6. TipJar: An employee at Google created this during his me-time. It’s a collection of money-saving tips ranked by the community.
7. FootyTube 2.0: FootyTube has upgraded and is currently in private beta. The football fanatics may like to check it out.
8. Breathing Earth: Experience the Earth as a breathing being – see the amount of CO2 emissions across the world. Also includes real-time updates of the number of births and deaths around the world.
9. 1 Million Tweets: There’s something a bit wrong about this, I feel. Sending tweets on behalf of others, even if you are going to donate 10% to charity, sounds a bit dubious to me.
10. Dropular: Along the lines of Ffffound, here’s Dropular – so that you can save media bits and bobs you like.
11. Valebrity: is that the real Britney Spears, Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher you’re following on Twitter? Check and make sure on this site.
12. Twittersheep: So you have X number of followers. Curious about what industries they work in? Twittersheep analyses your follower’s bios and presents it to you in the form of a neat tag cloud.
13. Aardvark: Currently in beta, this is sort of a mash-up of Mahalo and Twitter. Ask your friends questions via IM or e-mail and get answers back in real-time. Social search is what they call it.
14. Mixcloud: Another one in private beta, Mixcloud is somewhat like Pandora for the non-US folks, plus radio and the ability for people who have their own shows to broadcast those as well, all thrown in for good measure.
15. WeFollow: A ‘user-powered Twitter directory’. A bit cleaner than Twellow. Also a bit egoistic, but whatever. I suspect it has its uses for some.
16. Keep Britain Working: The UK may be one of the two countries most-affected by the credit crunch, next to the US. What are your suggestions to keep the British economy going?
17. Social Weather Mapping: Twitter-sourced data visualization of the weather across the world. Listen to who’s saying what about the weather on Twitter.
18. Compfight: Really cool tool to search for images by Creative Commons licenses on Flickr. WAY better than Advanced Search on Flickr. I don’t get the name though. Fighting for CC images, perhaps?
19. Extreme Sheep LED Art: When I saw this on Friday, it had 1 million views. It’s at 2 million now. So an extra million just over the weekend. See it for yourself and find out why!
20. Red Riding Hood re-interpreted:
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