A Couple of Interesting Sites
Bloglines Image Wall – Not Work Friendly
The Bloglines image wall crawls a bunch of blogs, and takes an image from them, which it then places in this wall. Each Image is linked to the blog which originated it. The Wall is constantly updated, and sometimes you will see an image and just have to click on it to see what the heck is going on. The first time I looked at it there was some weird pictures, and the second time there were some adult images.
The wall itself is 6 images wide by 4 images tall, but before you view it you have to agree that you are an adult, and that you understand that you may be exposed to horrific adult images (Gasp).
Yahoo pipes is a “do your own mashup” platform. It looks like you can do some really crazy stuff with it. It has a very interesting GUI interface which you use to build your pipes. One of the pipes on the site takes headlines from the New York Times, and searches for key words. Then those keywords are used to search through Flickr.
After you create a Pipes set (not sure of the exact terminology), you can publish it, and subscribe to it via RSS. You can also take Pipes that others have made, clone them, and modify them to your liking. All in all, I think some really neat stuff is going to come out of this. The one think I don't like very much is the name, and only because it sounds strange to refer to single items with a plural.
Me: "I built some neat pipes today"
My imaginary friend: "Oh, how many?"
Me: "Just one."
Oh never mind, just go check it out if you are into this type of thing.
- Yahoo Pipes
- New York Times through Flickr
1 comment:
The Bloglines image wall looks interesting. I'll check it out later since you said it's NSFW.
I'd heard of Yahoo! Pipes but didn't read up on it so I didn't really know what it was all about. Your description makes it sound pretty interesting.
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