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Where is the International Space Station?

Posted by matt on Thu, 19/02/2009 - 12:43am in

The Internation Space Station (ISS) can be tracked real-time on google maps!

Search Flickr by Color

Posted by matt on Mon, 29/09/2008 - 5:19pm in

Surely everybody who has spent time browsing the internet now knows about the giant user-created photograph collection, Flickr. It is the largest collection of images around, and despite all the tags and geo-tagging etc which make finding images you want to see easier, there can never be too many methods to help with this.

This brings me to the Multicolr Search Lab website, which lets you search Flickr by color!

You can select anything from a single color, right up to 10 colors, and it will use that to bring back a grid of Flickr thumbnails of all the photos which match. Very cool.

Top 5 News Stories you missed in 2006

Posted by matt on Sun, 31/12/2006 - 1:55am in

1. Email on the Road

Forget wasted time while driving - now people are reading their emails on the road. No more inconvenient squinting at your PDA or mobile phone - these days it's all displayed in HUD realtime on the windshield of your car! Think of the increased productivity!

John Chow - The Lord of the Digg

Posted by matt on Fri, 22/12/2006 - 11:15pm in

Many of you will already be familiar with John Chow, the man behind one of the leading tech review sites, TheTechZone.

Worldwide Data Sharing Website

Posted by matt on Thu, 07/12/2006 - 12:51am in

A new data sharing & analysis website, Swivel, describes itself as the Youtube for Data, and I would think that if they do manage to establish an unparalleled ease of use, they might get there.

Swivel allows users to share or compare ANY type of data easily - either via the free pPblic data collation / sharing / analysis model, or via the paid Private data collation / analysis model.

Warning Sign Image Creator

Posted by matt on Sun, 26/11/2006 - 8:42pm in

Create custom warning sign images with this easy series of multi choice options, and write whatever you want on the sign.

Warning Sign Generator

Trizoko - helping your business change the freakin world no less

Posted by matt on Mon, 13/11/2006 - 1:25am in

Some interesting reading in this lot! Entrepreneurs tips a plenty, with no-funkin wack delivery style! We like

Trizoko blog

Online To-Do list website

Posted by matt on Sun, 24/09/2006 - 3:32pm in

TaDaList is a free online To-Do list for anyone who wants one - or many in fact - and the AJAX powered website makes everthing super smooth and easy to use.

Check out TaDaList

Facial recognition and visual search engine

Posted by matt on Sun, 18/06/2006 - 11:27pm in

Riya 2.0 is on the way apparently, and it will be intriguing to see how this "Visual Search Engine" develops. Packing all sorts of facial recognition and image indexing technology, it could bring about some pretty innovative mashup websites in the near future.

Need to find a rare book?

Posted by matt on Thu, 15/06/2006 - 8:46pm in

If you're ever needing to find a rare book, or in fact any book, chances are you can find it here!

Apparently over 100 Million new and used books can be found at Book Finder.

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