When a free web service called WolframAlpha launches in the coming days, the general public will get to try a "computational knowledge engine" that has had technology insiders buzzing because of its oracle-like ability to spit out answers and make calculations. Which has a bigger gross domesti... read more
tags: search
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A fun way to search for reference images by their colour content. It selects from over 10 million images on Flickr according to the colours you select from a handy little palette. Then of course you can link directly to any picture you see. It doesn't give you any rights to use the images you ... read more
tags: colour, creativity, flickr, interface, photo, photographic, resource, search
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A fellow designer Lukas Marti recently developed this website for a gallery in Zurich. What is worth highlighting is how the artists are showcased on the site. Instead of preselecting the artists work as most galleries/exhibitions/portfolios tend to do, the work is gathered from Google. All con... read more
tags: art, Artists, Gallery, google, Internet, search, Switzerland
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Social bookmarking, but for images. A useful source of inspiration for anyone working in the visual arts. Members can post images straight to the site via clever little bookmarklets. Sort of like a Google image search, whereby you browse to a page because of the images within it. Perhaps i'm over... read more
tags: 2.0, bookmarking, image, search, social, Visual
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A very useful online tool for finding the font you're after. Its a simple idea and its executed very well. You are asked a series of questions about the typeface you have: what are the serifs like? What shape is the dot above the lowercase i? And it eventually narrows down to a set of potential a... read more
tags: fonts, MIT, online, search, typeface
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A fun little bit of flash which helps you to discover new music. Simply enter the name of an artist you like and it'll give you a 'map' of similar artists. I don't know how rigourous the underlying data is and the design is a bit bargain basement. But its got something which makes it really r... read more
tags: interactive, interface, music, search, social
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