Archive for 'applications'

Incredible World Cup Visual by Marca.com

The folks at Marca.com have broke down the World Cup tournament into giant interactive calendar that makes it easy to follow all the teams, game schedules, cities/stadiums and groups in the tournament. A simple rollover of the mouse changes the displayed calendar info and the visual can be viewed full screen.
This is definitely my go-to [...]

Site of the Month: IsItSunshine.com

IsItSunshine is a clever weather mashup that shows local weather conditions and answers a very simple (ungrammatically correct) question: is it sunshine? The site makes use of Google Maps with an overlay of large visual and very cheerful icons. No fuss, no feature overload. Just a simple idea providing useful information and executed really, really [...]

Grooveshark Gets New Redesign, Improved Features

Grooveshark just made a major update to their site and I’m loving everything about it. The user interface was always a strong point but they actually managed to improve it while maintaining their slick look and feel, and include some new functionalities.
The site now claims over 1 million registered users and continues to grow as [...]

Sikbox – Slick Search App for Your Blog

Looking for a live search tool for your blog ? Then check out Sikbox, a light-weight and impressive search application that can be easily embedded to a site with a simple piece of code.  We added it to our celebrity site and the results are displayed fairly fast in a very nice, slick user interface. [...]

Quarkbase – Spy on Websites

There are lots of SEO tools out there but this one I actually like. It´s called Quarkbase and provides a quick and dirty snapshot of a website´s key information from various online data sources. Easy to use, nice interface, and great way to spy on other sites.

I came across it via Ann Smart´s post on [...]