Archive for July 9th, 2008

Jul 9, 2008

Wordle tag cloud generator

Try this tag cloud generator, feed it some text, a feed or a del.icio.us username and it'll make you a nice customisable cloud. Here's a MadeByPi™ one I made earlier...

Jul 9, 2008

Show Us a Better Way

The Government has released Gigabytes of new or previously invisible public information in a bid to get people creating exciting new applications to help translate this data to the public.

There's Neighbourhood statistics, Health care information, all the schools in England and Wales, Notices from the London Gazette, Transport information and much much more. The Power of Information Taskforce are running a competition for the best idea and the prize is £20,000 to further develop their idea.

One thing im particularly interested in is creating a mashup by plotting every bus stop and bus route in the UK on a google map and then animating the buses in real time using their GPS data so you can visually see exactly where your bus is - it'd be great for mobile devices and save a lot of waiting around at bus stops!

Check out their site: http://www.showusabetterway.co.uk

Jul 9, 2008

Supercook!

I found this great little recipe site. It's got a nice way of searching based on ingredients.

www.supercook.com/