Move the oil spill on your city to visualise its size in context. VISIT LINK: If It Was My Home – Visualizing the BP Oil Spill (tags: 2010 activism disaster environment geography google gis googlemaps infographics map maps mashup mashups news science visualisation visualization bp currentevents deepwaterhorizon ifitwasmyhome gulf oil …)
This insane montage of (nearly) every instance of "What?" from the LOST series started me thinking about this genre of video meme, where some obsessive-compulsive superfan collects every phrase/action/cliche from an episode (or entire series) of their favorite show/film/game into a single massive video montage. VISIT LINK: Supercuts, Obsessive Video Montages (tags: animation art audio [...]
Provides a simple bookmarking service. We follow your twitter feed, and whenever a status you tweet or re-tweet contains URLs, we add them to your delicious.com bookmarks. Optionally, bookmark URLs in @replies to you, and in tweets you mark as Favorites. VISIT LINK: Packrati.us = Twitter + Delicious (tags: aggregator api bookmark bookmarks bookmarking delicious [...]
"Shitty Day is a side project I created just for fun. It searches for Tweets from people that write about their shitty day. The results can be seen in a fun way (toilet paper roll) and users get encouraged to send back some love. You might even could argue that it will have a therapeutic [...]
Qwitter: Catching Twitter quitters Qwitter e-mails you when someone stops following you on Twitter. (tags: tools web tool internet social web2.0 funny email app socialnetworking service mashup socialnetworks api twitter socialmedia microblogging qwitter unfollow webservice subscription quit followers quitter mail …)
The Sopranos, uncensored [video] This is every single curse, from every single episode of the sopranos, ever. (tags: video fun funny humor language tv movies mashup sharing television awesome editing sopranos curse fuck swearing uncensored cursing motherfucker shit supercut …)
Synchronized Presidential Debating "Did watching the 2nd and 3rd debates give you a feeling of déjà vu? This montage of synced-up footage from all three presidential debates confirms our deep-seated belief that every debate was exactly the same." (tags: video news funny humor language humour politics mashup editing usa election government johnmccain election2008 2008 presidential [...]
Meet Inbetween Us "I'm not drivin' all the way out there!" MeetInBetween.us is the solution we've all been waiting for! Use it to plan anything with people who don't live near each other. Get started by entering addresses on the home page and then find a place to meet! From lunch with a friend to [...]
We Feel Fine Every few minutes, the system searches the world's newly posted blog entries for occurrences of the phrases "I feel" and "I am feeling". When it finds such a phrase, it records the full sentence, up to the period, and identifies the "feeling" expressed in (tags: aggregator art artistic blog blogging blogs community [...]
Soup.io – Publish, collect, share. Too creative for just a profile? Way too busy to blog? Soup is blogging for the rest of us. (tags: Tags aggregator blog blogging blogs community content del.icio.us delicious distribute feed feeds links mashup post publish rss share sharing social soup tumblelog tumblr website …)
ShareThis One button makes sharing easy. Widget and plugin for sharing to Email, AIM, SMS, Social Networks and Social Bookmarking. (tags: API Facebook ShareThis Webdesign ajax blog blogging blogs button community email link links marketing mashup network networking plugin plugins promotion share sharing sns social socialbookmarking socialnetwork socialnetworking socialnetworks socialsoftware software spam tool tools viral [...]
Abusing Amazon images Amazon.com feeds out a lot of product images, putting out the same book cover (say) in a variety of sizes and formats. By experimentation, I found that they don't actually have all the sizes and formats stored. Instead, they have a system that generates e (tags: amazon art book code design fun [...]
YouTube Subscriptions via Yahoo! Pipes Gets a list of the users subscriptions and makes an rss feed from the subscribed users videos. The videos are embedded in the feed itself with an alt tag for images that link to the video on youtube if the feed reader does not support embedded youtube pla (tags: API [...]