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Humor: A White Noise web site

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Enough said or to much noise around you – click over to Simply Noise. This web site allows you to enjoy “auditory zen” – “white noise” in configurable comfort zone(s)…

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Video: Making sense of the Semantic web

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A video of the full presentation by Nova Spivack from Radar Networks given at the Next Web Conference 2008 that took place on April 3rd/4th this year in Amsterdam.

You’ll find an excellent summary of the presentation at “thenextweb.org” site and the slides are available at “Google docs”.

If you want to understand buzz words like…

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Micro-Blogging: Tumblr documentary

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If you’re looking for a different point of view on micro-blogging – here’s a “documentary” on Tumblr. Users are talking about follower, real life meetings, why they are using etc.

Mostly sarcastic but also asking the the right question: Why do you spend so much time on tools like that – or what is it you’re missing from your life…

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Data-Visualization: Tag Clouds with Wordle

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There are many tools around to create word clouds from text, tag lists etc.

“Wordle” allows you to copy / paste a text fragment into their user interface or link to a del.icio.us user name to use tags from the saved bookmarks. What differentiates Wordle from other tools are the various features to format the resulting word clouds. You can arrange the text layout in different ways (Horizontal / Vertical / mixed / Free flow), select fonts from a list and apply coloring templates for the display. The results are quite impressive and cover a broad spectrum of popular layouts…

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Humor: Help I’m bored

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Another entry to our growing list of “Dada web sites”.

“Help I am bored” provides quick tips and remedies for 16 common situations – from Help – I’m homesick to Help-I feel old and of course Help – I’m bored. Some of the hints are…

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Games: Google Driving Simulator

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Japanese Flash developer Kohring has just released a new version of his 2D driving simulator that uses street maps and satellite images from Google Maps as a playing ground.

While the simulation is still quite simply and does not detect collisions or road boundaries, its definitely a new way to use web 2.0 interfaces. We are looking forward to the first 3D simulation within Google Earth and other virtual world databases.

Preset locations include…

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