Elizabeth B. Thomsen

[Links from my MCCLPHEI Presentation]

Words

• Flickr Tags — Showing the most popular tags right now and all-time
• Wordle — A simple but powerful tool for creating word clouds from any text or list of words
• Name Voyager — An interactive chart for exploring the popularity of baby names

Search

• SearchMe — Visual search engine
• WindowShop — Visual interface to Amazon’s new releases
• Tagnautica — Visual search of Flickr tags
• ColrPickr — Search Flickr by color
• Multicolr — Search Flickr by color combinations
• TinEye — Reverse image search engine
• YouTube You Choose — Example of voice-to-text indexing
• Koogle — “Kosher Google” search for Orthodox Jews

Video

• Living Room Candidate — The Living Room Candidate website is a beautifully-designed online exhibit from the Museum of the Moving Image, showcasing presidential campaign commercials from 1952 to 2008. You can explore by year and read a short article about each candidate’s television strategy, or browse by type of commercial (biographical, fear, real people, etc.) or by issue (corruption, taxes, war, etc.)
• Prelinger Archives — A collection of short public service, sponsored and educational films
• JoVE — Peer-reviewed Journal of Visualized Experiments
• Truveo — Powerful video search engine that goes way beyond YouTube

Structured Data

• Google Quotes — Do a Google News search on a prominent person, and look for a Quotes link in the sidebar
• Wolfram Alpha — Computational engine
• Google Squared — Creates a grid of structured information pulled from many sources
• Powerset — Provides structured results from Wikipedia articles

Mapping and 3D

• Shorpy New York Photo Map — Google Maps showing location of historical images
• The World Is Not Flat — 3D tools like Google Earth and Google Sketch-Up make it possible for anyone to explore and create in three dimensions