13 month ago
nelson : Aquatic funicular - Not exactly, but this is a crazy way to lift a boat
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14 month ago
deusx : Navigating With Feedback From Fellow Drivers - New York Times - "There’s this long chain of cars up ahead. What if the cars could talk to one another?"
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nelson : Glonass update - GPS network alternatives. I hadn't realized the European one was suspended after the DRM was broken.
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21 month ago
philgyford : BBC - BBC TWO - Everything - BBC 2's site has three main navigational items: Home, Everything and TV Listings. And "Everything" isn't nearly as comprehensive as you might hope. Craziness.
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plasticbag : Etsy's browse by colour interface is extremely entertaining and playful - Increasingly I think the nature of successfully exploring data on the internet is simply identifying your first order elements and then joining them together with absolutely any plausible data whatsoever...
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34 month ago
plasticbag : From a month ago: Warner Brothers announce they're going to sell movies online - I'm really interested in this whole selling TV and movies stuff online after my time at the BBC - mainly wondering why the BBC isn't working with these players to find a space for public sector distribution...
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35 month ago
plasticbag : "Apple has been criticised over a new version of its iTunes program that can keep track of a user's listening habits." - So whatever the rights and wrongs of the whole situation, it's pretty clear that the PR effect has been far from positive. Apple, look to last.fm! There's a whole world of the future hidden in that little site...
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35 month ago
plasticbag : Podzinger makes podcasts searchable by performing speech recognition upon them... - Media analysis is only one of the three ways you can accrete metadata around a media object. Also worth considering - production metadata and post-release public annotation...
Linkorama : PODZINGER - PodZinger enables one to quickly, easily and reliably search the Web for podcasts and locate specific information at the exact location in the audio file and is based on 30 years of speech recognition research and development from BBN Technologies.
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35 month ago
jkottke : Retrievr is a simple, amazing use of the Flickr API - Retrievr is a simple, amazing use of the Flickr API. You draw a little drawing and Retrievr fetches similar photos from Flickr. Photodisc, the stock photo site, used to have a feature like this back in 1997-98, but then they discontinued it (I have no ide [via]
Andy Baio : Retrievr - search Flickr by sketching; impressive examples on Mefi [via]
Rod Begbie : retrievr - search by sketch - Crudely sketch something, and find photos on Flickr that resemble it. [via] #
Milo Vermeulen : retrievr - search Flickr photos by sketching! [via]
Philippe Janvier : retrievr - "Searching Flickr by sketch" : une façon assez inattendue de se rendre encore compte combien Flickr regorge de photos extraordinairement belles. [via] #
plasticbag : Retrievr allows you to draw sketches in an MS Paint style and then find similar Flickr photos... - It looks like they've gone and done some analysis on some of Flickr's most interesting pictures to try and match them up. If you play with blocks of colour you get some really nice and occasionally startling results...
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37 month ago
plasticbag : Jessica's Trans-Traffic - Interesting little thing this - it's a bit of javascript you add to your weblog which tells you which other weblogs your visitors are reading. I quite like the idea of it helping people find unexpected peers.
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plasticbag : Public could help BBC to index archive - "Inspired by Flickr and Wikipedia, the project is a private, early-stage pilot of social software produced at BBC Radio and Music Interactive that lets listeners slice programmes into chunks that can be identified by using tags."
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38 month ago
plasticbag : "Got a Mac? Want Front Row? You’re In Luck!" - I'm really interested that Apple decided to use software to get people to buy a new iMac rather that putting the software on every computer that could run it. Although clearly, people are excited enough to want it on all their computers...
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plasticbag : Sony's new MP3 player actually has some elements that bear comparison to the iPod - One element in particular appeals to me - various forms of shuffle including 'Time Machine Shuffle' and 'Favourites Shuffle'
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40 month ago
Rod Begbie : Pandora - The Music Genome Project launch their little music player app. Not sure yet if I like it, but its recommendations certainly are interesting -- based upon musical elements, rather than your usual "People who listened to Super Furry Animals also listened t [via] #
Andy Baio : Pandora Music Engine comes out of private beta - streaming music recommendation service
plasticbag : I can't quite believe I didn't recommend this at the time: Pandora Music Recommendations engine - I'm talking to a lot of people at the moment who think that one way or navigating data is going to win over another. But it's ludicrous, we need all the dimensions we can get and user-generated sits perfectly well alongside and/or on top of top-down or ex
Jeremy Zawodny : Pandora - Pandora: To help you discover new music you'll love.
Philippe Janvier : Pandora - "...a music discovery service designed to help you find and enjoy music that you'll love." My radio tonight : Miles Davis of course ! [via] #
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41 month ago
plasticbag : The Madonna Code - Searching for the perfect music recommendation system (including an awesome one that correlates music with cultural traits) - "Thus, we can see that a high-energy vocal style correlates with the presence of dairy in a society's diet; a high degree of rhythmic blending between vocalists signals a high degree of social solidarity;"
cobra libre : alan lomax's global jukebox - and the savage beast [via] #
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42 month ago
Andy Baio : TagCloud - automated weighted tag lists using Yahoo's Content Analysis web service [via] [via]
plasticbag : TagCloud - an automated tool for deriving folksonomic classifications from RSS feeds - "Essentially, TagCloud searches any number of RSS feeds you specify, extracts keywords from the content and lists them according to prevalence within the RSS feeds."
Richard Rutter : TagCloud - Visual analysis of news feeds, based on Yahoo! Content Analysis.
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43 month ago
plasticbag : Six Degrees of Statistically Improbable Phrases - Derive interesting phrases from books, and then hook books together by chains of them for a truly bizarre navigational experience...
erikbenson : Six Degrees of Statistically Improbable Phrases - fairly useless, but fun
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43 month ago
plasticbag : Judging a Book by Its Contents - exposing statistics to users to convey meaning and colour - In Amazon's case using Statistically Improbably Phrases to sell more books. It's all about rapidly contextualising what you're look at and in a world of rapidly exploding choice, is probably more important than it looks...
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47 month ago
Andy Baio : Sparklines for representing Wikipedia activity - a brilliant idea they should try to reproduce as soon as possible [via] [via]
Simon Willison : Wikipedia: Shirky / (Tufte x Wattenburg) = ? - Sparklines for Wikipedia: an outstanding idea.
cameron : Wikipedia: Shirky / (Tufte x Wattenburg) = ? - Sparklines for wiki editing history
plasticbag : Matt Jones proposes using Tufte-esque sparklines to expose editing histories on Wikipedia - The assumption being that a clued-up individual would be able to make determinations about the data based upon how controversial or active its editing history appears to have been...
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49 month ago
plasticbag : BBC News website scoops award - The Online News Association says on its website that the judges "were effusive in their praise for this site, noting that it has continued to improve and innovate" since it last won the award in 2001.
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plasticbag : Peter Morville's list of articles that one should read about Information Architecture - "So, caveats aside, here's a radically incomplete and idiosyncratic list of freely accessible research papers worth review before you plunge into your next information architecture project."
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plasticbag : Flickr's fruit at the bottom - on bottom-of-the-page site navigation - Ah - after posting a couple of links yesterday about bottom-of-the-page sitemaps and referencing Mr Jones, I've just noticed that he's posted about it too. I've expressed some of my concerns in the comments, if you're interested.
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