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March 30, 2007
Cool web tools: part 1
This is the first entry in a series of posts I plan to make over the course of the next few weeks. My plan is not to rate, endorse, or otherwise evaluate the included resources (perhaps I have evaluated by assigning the "cool" moniker), but rather to bring attention to these web applications that push the envelope on conventional methods of information search and retrieval.
Enough said -- on to the cool web tools:
- FlickStorm: enter a keyword into the search box and FlickStorm grabs a bunch of relevant images from the flickr website and presents them to you as thumbnails. A click on a thubnail loads the larger image to your web browser.
- Similicio.us: uses data from the del.icio.us social bookmarking website to provide a "users who like this website also like this one" listing.
- KwMap: pitches itself as "a keyword map for the whole internet". Enter a search term and KwMap returns a visual display of logically related terms across two intersecting axes.
- Ujiko: search engine that looks more like a game console or a component to a 747 instrument panel. Claims to search 6,000,000,000 web pages.
- Kartoo: Flash-based search interface displays results visually in groups of related clusters. Brought to you by the makers of Ujiko.
Posted by AnthonyMcMullen at March 30, 2007 12:21 PM