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Humor: A White Noise web site
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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Humor: A webpage to fight mosquitoes
Do you hate it when – during the night – flies and mosquitoes buzz around in your room. Well there are these devices you can plug into a power socket to drive them away. But what will you do when you’re in a hotel room or you don’t want to buy one of those weapons. Now there is a web page that drives away mosquitoes with its color and beeping sound (you might not find much sleep while it’s running but most likely the mosquitoes will be gone)…
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Video: Making sense of the Semantic web
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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Data Visualization: Virtual Worlds
Marketing research company K Zero has published some interesting diagrams on virtual worlds. The first visualizes the virtual worlds by registered accounts and their development since 2003. It also includes some virtual worlds currently in development.
The second diagram shows the involvement of companies and their brands within these virtual worlds.
While the diagrams are very informative we are missing…
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Micro-Blogging: Tumblr documentary
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
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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