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How it works In today's modern Internet, search engines have full control over the web, they can make sites be the center of attention or make them disappear altogether in a flash. A web site that is not referenced by Google, Yahoo or MSN is virtually nonexistent to the average user; it is also largely accepted that search engines cover only 20% of the World Wide Web today. In other words, search engine algorithms dictate which web sites are 'visible' and which web sites don't exist. There is nothing democratic about it, the search engines decide. Either you fit in the system, or you're out of the game. No matter how good your web site is, no matter how good users think your web site is, machines decide if it is a good match for you or not. It could be full of junk for all you know, as long as it follows the rules of page ranking and other criterias set by the algorithms. Like it or not, there is a dictatorship of information, no matter how good the intentions of these companies are, they have control over what you see. Who can better judge if a web site is a good match for your key words, if it's not you ? Aren't you the one who should judge if a web site is right for you? User driven Umibozu attempts to address this problem by providing users the means to vote for web sites that they find interesting or useful, bringing more democracy to the web 2.0. In order to start off the process though, Umibozu brings together all the results of the major search engines in one place, then lets the user refine the results. After all, machines also have the right to vote. Meta search engine Say you're looking for the best pizza place in town, you should not take for granted whatever your good friend tells you, it's always best to have several recommendations, no matter how much you trust this friend. Also, your taste and preferences are an important factor in your choice for a good pizza, and should be taken into account when looking for a good place to eat. This is why Um

Motivator Make your own inspirational, funny, parody, sports or other motivational poster for any occasion. Pop Art Poster Become a pop icon! Create a 9, 4, or 1-panel lo-fi, false-color version of one of your photos. Magazine Cover Make your own magazine cover! Be a superstar! Prove to your friends how famous you really are! Mosaic Maker Make a mosaic from a photoset, favorites, tags, or individual digital photographs or images. It's a whole world of creative photo possibilities. Movie Poster Make your own customized movie poster. You choose the photo, titles, and credits. Be a star! Jigsaw Create customized jigsaw puzzles from your photographs. Photobooth Create vintage photo booth strips. Four poses! Say cheese! Hockneyizer Create a unique photo collage in the style of the artist David Hockney. FX Transform your photos with fun special effects and filters. Map Maker Make a map of where you've been or where you're going. Favorite Surfer Browse favorite photos on Flickr. Mat Add a museum-style mat to your digital images. Pocket Album Create and print a pocket-sized photo album. Sunset Get sunset and sunrise times and the phase of the moon for any location on Earth. Badge Maker Make your own ID card, press pass, name tag, unofficial Flickr badge, or any other kind of identification. Top Cameras A ranked listing of the top 100 digital camera makes and models, updated weekly. Calendar Create monthly calendars from your photographs. Calendar pages can be created in three different printable styles. Trading Card Ever wanted to honor and immortalize someone you love? Turn them into a trading card! Framer Choose from tons of unique frames to spice up your photos. Remember, if you frame it, it's art. Wallpaper Turn any photo into cool desktop or cell phone wallpaper with a monthly calendar. Color Palette Generator Automagically generate a harmonious color palette based on the colors in a photo. Perfect for design work. Cube Use your digital photograph

How this test works: Your browser will be instructed to reach a series of URLs. The combination of successes and failures tells a story about how ready you are for when publishers start offering their web sites on IPv6. Q: What is World IPv6 Day? This is a trial period where a number of major web sites will provide their content on both IPv4 and IPv6. This is being led by the Internet Society (ISOC). more information is posted on their World IPv6 Day page. World IPv6 day, scheduled for 8 June 2011, is a global-scale test flight of IPv6 sponsored by the Internet Society. On World IPv6 Day, major web companies and other industry players will come together to enable IPv6 on their main websites for 24 hours. The goal is to motivate organizations across the industry -- Internet service providers, hardware makers, operating system vendors and web companies -- to prepare their services for IPv6 to ensure a successful transition as IPv4 address space runs out. Click here to see the start time in your local area. Why is World IPv6 Day necessary? The address space used by the current version of the Internet protocol, IPv4, is expected to run out in 2011. Without action, we risk increased costs and limited functionality online for Internet users everywhere. The only long-term solution to this problem is adoption of IPv6, which provides over 4 billion times more space. IPv6 is used extensively in many large networks, but it has never been enabled at a global scale. World IPv6 Day will help industry players work together to support the new protocol on an accelerated timeline. With major web companies committing to enable IPv6 on their main websites, there are strong incentives for other industry players to ensure their systems are prepared for the transition.

Hundreds of thousands of emails are sent every second, and yet, you wouldn't really know it because there aren't public-facing streams like that of Twitter. Outside your own inbox, how much email is there exactly? Yahoo, in collaboration with information visualization firm Periscopic, shows you how much email they process in real-time with this interactive feature. The initial view is a world map, and scaled bubbles represent how many emails were currently sent. Hover over continents for user geographic distribution and gigabytes sent. There's also trending topics from anonymized subject headers via streamgraph. The view is interesting as you can click on sections so that the surrounding streams split, so you get a sense of distribution along with details per keyword. The keyword data, however, isn't all that interesting for the most part. You'll see keywords such as online, free, and nights. Not too meaningful. There are a few exceptions though like Oprah and wars. There is also an option to include spam keywords with equally generic terms. Finally, if you go back to the map and keep on clicking, you eventually get to some fun facts about email, such as there are over sextillion ways to spell Viagra. All in all, it's a comprehensive view of how much email Yahoo handles that's fun to poke around. Turn on your speakers for playful sound effects. via http://flowingdata.com/2011/10/13/visualizing-yahoo-email-processing-in-real-time/

The Voicemail Transcription demo shows how to use Twilio's speech-to-text transcription API to automatically convert a voicemail message to text. The resulting text and a link to the audio of the recording is then emailed to the user. This simple demo provides functionality similar to commercial services such as VoiceCloud, Jott, and PhoneTag.

This demo shows how to make outgoing calls using the Twilio REST API, how to use the TwiML verb to make an audio recording and to transcribe that recording to text.

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Flexamail allows you to control the web while never leaving the comfort of your inbox. You can post images, share files even surf the web! If you know how to use email, you already know how to use Flexamail. Easy to learn, easy to use, yet powerful. With Flexamail, you can: Access popular sites like Twitter and Facebook all from your email without needing a proxy Avoid pesky firewalls getting in your way, access websites and services regardless to your office or country's firewall settings Post, share and track any type of files and images online Password protect those files you don't want made public Securely backup your files online Save money on your cellphone plan with an email only data plan Publish a photo from your iPhone or Blackberry without needing to open an app Stay organized with sortable, sharable, drag and drop lists

MoodJam is a visualization of your moods and other people's moods. Use MoodJam to: * Keep a record of your moods every hour, day, and weeks-as often as you want, for as long as you want. * Visualize your moods in beautiful color strips. * Learn about trends in your moods and colors you associate with specific moods. * Share your moods with friends, family, co-workers, and other people who matter to you. MoodJam is a free service provided by the MoodJam Research Group in the Human Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. We sometimes study how our members use MoodJam to learn how to improve personal and social awareness of moods. We promise to never give your personal information to anyone. See our privacy policy for more information.

freewebstat.info is a free service that lets you see your data like never before! a vast quantity of valuable information to webmasters about every website on the internet. How much is your website worth? How much are your competitors sites worth . This data is gathered from various sources in real-time. A unique feature we offer is being able to give an estimate of how much a certain website is worth and daily visitors. We use an advanced algorithm to calculate this data.

Ohsopopular is a service to see how popular a URL is on the web. We check a bunch of different services and give you a number like Google Pangerank, Alexa Rank, Number of bookmarks on Delicious and so on. It's basically a perfect tool for webmasters to check how your site is ranked across the web. It's also a great way to see how you rank against your competition.

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An experimental matrix of Web 2.0 mashups.
Usage: Hover the cursor over any cell in the matrix. A small box gives details on mashups for that API combination. Top links in hover box bring you to that API's reference page. Links in body of hover box take you directly to the mashup. Not all combinations have mashups & only those with the 'º' indicator currently have entries. Cells at the intersection of same API (ex: Amazon+Amazon) list any other examples for that API.

Note that there are two views into the matrix: the default view shows only those APIs for which mashups have been added to the database. The second view shows all APIs regardless of whether there's currently a mashup registered. It's big. Definitions: What is a mashup anyway? As always, it's good to check Wikipedia's definition, but essentially a "mashup" is a web-based application built through (creative) combination of data from multiple sources. Often, but by no means always, this data is retrieved by using a vendor's API such as those listed here. (An API? Also at Wikipedia.) Some recent press may also help explain: BusinessWeek's "Mix, Match and Mutate", The Economist's "Mashing the Web". Background: This is an experiment. It is intended to be both a reference point and also a visualization. What you see here today will change both in content and form shortly. I am quite interested in seeing the 'space' in which mashups exist. Clearly, some APIs such as Google Maps, appear to be more widely used than others. UI Issues: Cross-browser support is good but not complete. Sometimes it can b

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What?Zoom.it is a free service for viewing and sharing high-resolution imagery. You give us the link to any image on the web, and we give you a beautiful new way to experience it - along with a nice short URL. How?Zoom.it converts your image to the Deep Zoom format, which lets you smoothly and efficiently explore the whole image, no matter how large. Check out Deep Zoom Studio for examples of this technology in action. Zoom.it runs on Windows Azure and enhances the experience with Microsoft Silverlight when available.