Recently I’ve came across some websites and projects which have as only purpose to present us in visual terms, information they gather from other websites or news sources. They simply aggregate them and present those information bits in some highly graphical way… today I just noticed Newsmap:
Newsmap is an application that visually reflects the constantly changing landscape of the Google News news aggregator. (…) provides a tool to divide information into quickly recognizable bands which, when presented together, reveal underlying patterns in news reporting across cultures and within news segments in constant change around the globe
Strangely enough, at the beginning seems a messy representation, but the colors and sizes became addictive quite easily.
July 5th, 2006
Plazes is still in beta, but today i just noticed they launched a new website with a whole lot of new features.
For those who might not know plazes yet, Plazes is a geo-reference serviced based on ip, meaning that you don’t need to have a gps for pin-pointing your location on the web, you can just trust on the connection points that you hang to (to be more precise, it uses the mac-address of the router you’re connected to, to save your location at plazes). If the “plaze” is unknown plazes asks you about details on that particular location, otherwise it just saves your locations based on the information others have submitted on that precise location!
Here’s where I am right now:
Rather nice, don’t you think?
July 5th, 2006
SHiFT website was just unveiled: http://www.shift.pt, and in it people will find a whole lot of information about it, like dates (28/29th September), place and much more. Check it out:
July 5th, 2006