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New(ish) Website and Online Trends

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Facebook It’s hip

Converse: Spelling Bee Search the spoken word and find the AdWords Text Ad Gameplay which exists outside the website

YouTube Video Annotations Internal video comments and links, which can be used to create a “choose your own adventure” story Allows interaction with videos, and can link multiple videos to create a viewing course

http://www.solcomments.com/en/live.html

Live published ads

SOL Comments: Banner Campaign Live published ads: Copywriters monitor a sites content and then write copy to be published live Keeping advertising fresh

http://www.playballoonacy.com/ Orange: The World’s First Internet Balloon Race Personalize a balloon and compete by flying over and visiting submitted sites Platform to help bloggers gain exposure and help balloon flyers find new sites

http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/msnbc/components/spectra/index.html

MSNBC.COM: Spectra Select topics to be displayed in a scrollable 3-D newsreader Creating a visual platform for pre-existing text content

SpaceTime Displays the front page of search results in scrollable visual stack Improved functionality of seeing a site rather than reading description

Twistori Scrolling feed of twitts containing a phrase Self-sufficient to continually update

http://twittervision.com/

http://twittervision.com/local

Twittervision A mashup of Google Maps and Twitter showing up-to-the-second twitts by location Example of the ecosystem of websites/technology around Twitter

RoofRay Mashup to find the solar potential of any roof Leveraging Google Maps

Health Map Mashup combining disease alert feeds and google maps Collecting data from various places into one usable source

Citysense Mashup pulls data from GPS cell phones to show hot spots Brings meaning to random, anonymous GPS tracking

http://www.springwise.com/homes_housing/home_flirting_lets_owners_test/

Home flirting

Moviq: House Flirting Can express buying interest for houses not on the market, or gauge potential interest in a home Accomplishing something you couldn’t do in person

KIVA Give loans to people in developing countries Personal connection with donations

Flickr Group: What’s in your bag? People take photos of the things in their bags Sharing what is typically concealed

http://www.hottoast.org/convexstyle/flickrtime/

Flicker Time Pulls images into a clock based on two desired tags Utilizes the tagging of images

http://moodstream.gettyimages.com/usa/?isource=direct-entry_mood_usa

Getty Images: Moodstream Creates a slideshow of images and music based on desired mood Finding images through criteria different than their titles

Brand Tags Word association to define a brand by what others define it as Simple interface to collect and represent direct feedback

cookthink Provides recipe suggestions based on tags clicked User-tags create the database to pull suggestions from

Red Issue Navigate website by drawing the direction you want to go “ Next page” is becoming less and less relevant

iReport CNN’s public journalism initiative that allows anyone to contribute pictures and video of breaking news Social media driven by journalistic aspirations

Amazon: Mechanical Turk Crowdsourcing marketplace Connecting desired work with desired workers

Google Reader Web-based aggregator: works like an inbox for feeds One click sharing sends posts to a separate website showcasing your shared items

Dipity Organizes online life into one place (timeline, list, flipbook) Growing need/want for one stop shop to organize various social media accounts

http://labs.google.com/

Google Labs Showcase of ideas not fully developed for intentions of feedback Continually in beta: releasing programs without the pretense of it being fully completed and keeping it open for feedback

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