Wednesday, 2 December 2009

Friday, 20 November 2009

Describing the internet

Article on the Newfangled Web Factory's blog. About different descriptions and analogies for the web, and how people use the web.

http://www.newfangled.com/contentmgr/showdetails.php/id/543/view_type/950060/tagid/15

Tuesday, 17 November 2009

informationisbeutiful.net

Your pet's CO2 pawprint

Blog full of info-graphics

More Visual Search Engines

Sites that display screenshots as results

Pagebull.com

Search-cube.com

Spacetime.com

Map.net

Map.Net 3D cityscape - click for larger image

Another old-school site similar to Yahoo3D. Map.net (which isn't a site anymore but is mentioned here) has buildings representing websites, with the biggest buildings representing the most popular sites.

Your World of Text

A collaborative experiment. Visitors can turn up and add their words and messages to a big white page. Makes more sense if you visit the site.

"Your World of Text is an infinite grid of text editable by any visitor. The changes made by other people appear on your screen as they happen. Everyone starts in the same place, but you can scroll through the world using your mouse."

webtrendmap.com


another site which represents information visually.

"The Web Trend Map community curates meaningful link trends by choosing sources they trust."