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Googlebombing ‘failure’

Posted by Marissa Mayer, Director of Consumer Web Products  If you do a Google search on the word [failure] or the phrase [miserable failure], the top result is currently the White House’s official biographical page for President Bush. We’ve received … Continue reading

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"A dead simple AJAX timesheet app"

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Schedule incoming phone calls with the Popularity Dailer

Feel left out in a room full of people talking into their cell phones instead of to each other? The Popularity Dialer schedules recordings to call your cell phone at a predetermined time to give the impression that you too … Continue reading

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Simile

SIMILE is a joint project conducted by the MIT Libraries and MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. SIMILE seeks to enhance inter-operability among digital assets, schemata/vocabularies/ontologies, metadata, and services. A key challenge is that the collections which must inter-operate … Continue reading

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Timeline

Timeline is a DHTML-based AJAXy widget for visualizing time-based events. It is like Google Maps for time-based information. Below is a live example that you can play with. Pan the timeline by dragging it horizontally. Timeline website

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Exhibit

Exhibit is a lightweight structured data publishing framework that lets you create web pages with support for sorting, filtering, and rich visualizations by writing only HTML and optionally some CSS and Javascript code. It’s like Google Maps and Timeline, but … Continue reading

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Create your own icon at the Tiny Icon Factory

Make your own wee little icon with the Tiny Icon Factory, a site where you can also browse through tens of thousands other tiny little icons. You can use tiny icons in a variety of ways; on a website, blog, … Continue reading

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FooPlot: Online Graphing Calculator

Check it out at FooPlot.com

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Find local deals with BidNearBy

Find and compare deals from local stores, Craigslist, eBay, Amazon, and more with BidNearBy.com, a Google maps mashup. Here’s how it works: just type in your zip code (they’ve already geo-tagged you via your IP address, but it’s not absolutely … Continue reading

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Send Anonymous Text Messages

I can think of a few good uses of this… Ever want to text someone anonymously? Hit up AnonTxt and just enter in an alias, a subject, and the message itself, and it’ll be quickly sped to the cellphone number … Continue reading

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