Links selected: January 2010

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
Find open source software alternatives to well-known commercial software.
Open Source Alternative
open source | software
WikiMindMap is a mapping interface that takes user-entered terms and maps them, across languages, to Wikipedia articles.
www.wikimindmap.org
search engine | wikipedia | wikis
OpenSecrets.org is a nonpartisan guide to money’s influence on U.S. elections and public policy. Includes many interactive info-graphics and news/analysis.
www.opensecrets.org
elections | government information | politics
OpenCongress is a forum developed by the Participatory Politics Foundation. It allows users to research, track, and understand legislation in Congress. It includes an editable wiki, legislation/vote tracking, and information on representatives/senators, current issues, and money trails.
www.opencongress.org
government information | participatory democracy | politics | wikis
The Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) is a free, online collaborative encyclopedia that documents the 1.8 million living species known. It is compiled from existing databases and from contributions by experts and non-experts throughout the world and includes information in textual, video, sound, images and graphics form.
Encyclopedia of Life
biology | encyclopedias | taxonomies
An electronic reference about the Earth, its natural environments, and their interaction with society. It is a free and fully searchable collection of non-technically written articles.
Encyclopedia of Earth
earth | encyclopedias | environmental science
INFOMINE is a virtual library of Internet resources geared at the university level. It is collection of annotated and indexed links, including references to databases, electronic journals, textbooks, conference proceedings, and disciplinary material published on the Internet.
www.infomine.ucr.edu
academic information | research | virtual library
A Java based search engine that explores the semantic relationships between related websites and displays them in a visual ontology
www.touchgraph.com
search engine | semantic web | visualization
A metasearch engine developed by Vivísimo. It clusters results based within common facets for easier searching.
www.clusty.com
metasearch | search engine
WikiMapia is both an online map and a satellite imaging resource. It combines Google Maps with a wiki system. That is, users can add information in the form of notes to locations on Earth.
www.wikimapia.org
maps | wikis
An interface mapping meta-search engine. Visualizes search engine results, among other features
www.kartoo.com
metasearch | search engine | visualization
Full screen maps, including images from NASA, OpenLayers, Microsoft Virtual Earth (with or without labels) and Yahoo! Maps
www.flashearth.com
earth | maps
The Favourite Website Awards is all about showcasing the latest cutting edge sites and those who push the boundaries in web design.
www.thefwa.com
web galleries