FrazeIt
FrazeIt
dictionaries | search engine
Science.gov searches over 42 databases and over 2000 selected websites from 14 federal agencies, offering 200 million pages of authoritative U.S. government science information including research and development results. Science.gov is governed by the interagency Science.gov Alliance
www.science.gov
digital libraries | government information | scientific information
A great Australian company dedicated to photography and virtual aerial tours, most recently of New York City and of Melbourne, Austrialia
Pixelcase: WebVideoPhotography
maps | virtual tours | visualization
This is a map collection that allows users many experimental and rather innovative browsing formats. The historical map collection has over 22,000 maps and images, and focuses on rare 18th and 19th century North American and South American maps and other cartographic materials.
David Rumsey Map Collection
cartography | historical data | maps
MAPLight.org is a public database that illuminates the connection between campaign donations and legislative votes. Elected United States officials collect large sums of money to run their campaigns, and they often pay back campaign contributors with special access and favorable laws.
Maplight: Money and Politics
government information | politics
Folkstreams.net is a national preserve of hard-to-find documentary films about American folk or roots cultures. It streams films produced by independent filmmakers in a golden age that began in the 1960s, made possible by the development of portable cameras and sound synchronization. The films focus on the culture, struggles, and arts of unnoticed Americans from many different regions and communities.
www.folkstreams.net
digital libraries | film | folk music | music
VADS is the online resource for visual arts. It has provided services to the academic community for 12 years and has built up a considerable portfolio of visual art collections comprising over 100,000 images that are freely available and copyright cleared for use in learning, teaching and research in the UK.
www.vads.ac.uk
digital libraries | image collections | visual arts
wikiHow is a collaborative website that allows users to build and share the world's largest, highest quality how-to manual.
www.wikihow.com
DIY | wikis
CiteSeer is a scientific literature digital library and search engine that focuses primarily on the literature in computer and information science.
www.citeseerx.ist.psu.edu
academic information | digital libraries | information science
TED is a nonprofit devoted to "Ideas Worth Spreading." It started in 1984 as a conference bringing together people from Technology, Entertainment and Design. Along with Conference proceedings in Long Beach, California, and Oxford UK, TED includes the award-winning TEDTalks video site, the Open Translation Program, the new TEDx community program, this year's TEDIndia Conference and the annual TED Prize.
www.ted.com
educational videos | talks
A web-based drawing sketchpad for creating digital images.
www.mugtug.com/sketchpad
color management | drawing | image processing
Forensic tool for determining the level of post-processing done on digital images.
www.errorlevelanalysis.com
image processing
Color tools for web design and html. Color Galaxy is a online color library visualizer. This brings together a collection of 27 color databases, including Crayola's historical set to Munsell's scientific re-notational data. Requires Firefox, Opera or Safari.
www.colorjack.com
color management
This is a web application that selects 20 of your most recent favorite Flickr photos (when signed into Flickr) and 20 random photos if not. Clicking on a photo then retrieves that person's favorites, with links for enlarging and to that person's Flickr account.
www.fffflckr.com
flickr | photography
It’s Nice That publicizes and promotes the very best work from across the creative industry through aggregating relevant content online,
www.itsnicethat.com
art | web galleries
From the webpage: "WAVE is a free web accessibility evaluation tool provided by WebAIM. It is used to aid humans in the web accessibility evaluation process. Rather than providing a complex technical report, WAVE shows the original web page with embedded icons and indicators that reveal the accessibility of that page."
www.wave.webaim.org
Internet accessibility
A site that aggregates micro-local community data. Began from the mapping mashup Chicagocrime.org. It includes data on many public records such as crime statistics, foreclosures, restaurant inspections, building permits etc. This data is often mapped at the smallest local level.
www.everyblock.com
community | maps | mashups | microlocal
Walk Score is a site that calculates the walkability of addresses and displays the score on graded color-coded maps. It calculates the score based on the distance of an address to nearby amenities such as convenience stores, restaurants, cafes, theatres, parks and other localities.
www.walkscore.com
community | maps | mashups | microlocal
Dogpile is a metasearch engine. It retrieves results from Google, Yahoo!, Bing, Ask.com, About.com and several other popular search engines, including audio and video content providers. It is a registered trademark of InfoSpace, Inc.
www.dogpile.com
metasearch | search engine
A social search engine whereby the ranking order of the results are directly influenced by user voting, and the deletion of poor results or spam.
www.sproose.com
search engine | social search
SourceForge.net is the world's largest open source software development web site. Find, download and/or help develop free, open-source software.
www.sourceforge.net
open source | software