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New York City Signs - 14th to 42nd Street
Here is a website that aims to contribute to the internet’s unassailable role as a social hi story archive. Humbly noting from the outset that it’s stated objective is impossible – to survey all of the signs in the 300 or so blocks between (and including) NYC’s 14th St. and 42nd St. What is this [...]
Continue reading...2008 Election Map Mashup Link Bait Link Dump Post
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Mashups, we all know, can be an incredibly useful form of enduring link bait, as long as they address a group’s want or need. The 2008 presidential election showed us just such use in action with the preponderance of GoogleMap (and like) mashups of last night’s political landscape. Some were interactive, allowing you to add, adjust, [...]
Continue reading...How to Create a Mashup by Combining 3 Different APIs
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Thiis piece is WAY over my head, but since mashups are a powerful form of link bait, it only makes sense that a tutorial on creating them would make great link bait too Especially when you consider the proportion of internet users that are building links! (Why do you think we created this site?) This brings [...]
Continue reading...World Names Profiler
Monday, September 15, 2008
Bringing a whole new answer to the question “Where are you from?”, this neat little tool shows you the geographic origin of every Surname (that’s Last Name, in plain terms) known to man. Besides showing on a color-coded map the exact countries your surname can be sourced to, it also reveals a stunning array of [...]
Continue reading...Mission Creep: US Military Presence Worldwide
Monday, August 18, 2008
What a delightfully eye-opening little interactive resource this is - a world map you can click on in various ways to discover the extent of the US military presence in different regions at different points in time. Not only can you adjust a slider-bar to see color-coded numbers for every part of the planet from [...]
Continue reading...Internet Memes
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
Remember this shining moment in Web 2.0 history? When then unknown band OK Go creates a novel and nifty little music video for one of their songs and becomes an overnight worldwide web success! This was just one of the many memes that shaped cyberculture as we know it. The two best definitions of “meme” [...]
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