Archive for the ‘Web 2.0’ Category
Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
Go check out the Climate Time Machine, an interactive thingy from NASA. If you have speakers or headphones you may want to kill the somewhat ominous music that starts by default. Why do sites still do this?
Choose either Ice Melt, Sea Level, CO2 Emissions or Average Global Temperature from the ...
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Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
Interior of The Washington Court Hotel in D.C.
Snowmass Village, CO
Check out EveryScape.com if you haven't already. It's kind of like Google street view -- serving up seemless panoramas of select slices of the world -- only with EveryScape, you can also go inside (certain) buildings and look around. There's a ...
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Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
Wowio.com offers up free Ebooks in the PDF form. I heard about this site from the I Read Comics podcast. And rightly so because Wowio serves a good number of comics and graphic novels from scores of publishers. The absence of DC and Marvel proves not much of a surprise. ...
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Friday, June 20th, 2008
Pictured above: a horrid screengrab from the gadgets section of Alltop.com on April 4, 2008.
Alltop.com aggregates all the top sites on the web. Its main page lists 10 main categories:
Work
Living
Culture
Interests
Geekery
People
Good
News
Geos
Sports
Choose a subcatagory, let's say gadgets (like the screenshot) under Geekery, and Alltop spits out headlines from related sites and blogs ...
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