cr3ation b3ta • music search plus
Those folk at b3ta may be best now for subversion and general web silliness, but I came across this amazing MP3 search engine on their cr3ation b3ta site…Does what it says on the tin.. and very quickly…. Don’t forget to buy the tracks once you’ve found them though.
Where else could I have so easily found Ivor Cutler’s A mushroom came to my room?
Woodside were photographed at Whitby in 2006 and now appear on a cover of a CD Set “The Sound of England”. Not something I would buy myself, and not something for which permission was asked. But it’s odd seeing yourself on a CD cover in Tesco’s!
This article, by Dave Dunham, documents the tour of traditional morris villages undertaken by Woodside Morris Men as part of our 50th anniversary celebrations..
Starting at Badby, near Daventry, we progressed through Brackley and Hinton-in-the-Hedges before leaving Northamptonshire for Oxfordshire. Here we visited Adderbury and Bucknell before crossing into Bucks to end the day with our version of a dance from Steeple Claydon.
An excellent day, and pretty good weather given the June downpours we’ve had. It only really rained twice and we were on the road both times.
A Periodic Table of Visualization Methods
This has a wealth of visual literacy tools laid out in a quasi-periodic table.
Tom Smiths the OTHER blog brings us the bad usability calendar (PDF)
Office tools and collaboration online… (or for a small price hosted on your server)
This looks very good… I’m not sure how the collaborative documents bit will stand up to multiple concurrent access (eg from a class) but I think I’ll find an excuse for trying it.
eyeOS provides an online virtual desktop/OS… very interesting…
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eyeOS is an Open Source Web Desktop Environment, commonly known as Web Operating System (Web OS) or Web Office. eyeOS is Open Source Software, and can be downloaded or used through the official eyeOS server. The basic System comes with some office and PIM applications, and the complete eyeOS software database can be found at eyeApps.org and in the public server. More information can be found at the forums and in the screenshots section.
Yahoo pipes provide user-generated mash-ups. Taking feeds and data from one source (or keyed in values) and passing them to other services, one can generate customised feeds, searches, data services etc. The editor for creating them is a pretty neat visual tool too.
Plumbing for the web?
Derek Wenmoth alerts me to this little video on Web2.0… what does it mean for you, me, us?
A little utility that allows you to spell out words using the images of letters from Flickr…
