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The Colour Of 

iOS app takes a search term, then creates an abstract collage from Instagram images based on that term:

The Color Of App from Kwok Pan Fung on Vimeo.

What is the color of happiness? Now you have an objective answer with ‘The Color Of’ app. When you search for something, the app will grab pictures from Instagram and overlap them to form an abstract image with a dominant color, which you can share on Facebook and Twitter, save as your phone’s wallpaper, or even send as a postcard. You can even explore the creations of other users. Free only on 14 December 2012 launch day, 99 cents thereafter. ‘The Color Of’ app is an art project by independent Singaporean designer, Fung Kwok Pan. It is based on his popular web art experiment to objectively find the colour of things based on Flickr. The iPhone app will be launching on 14th December 2012 for free, and with a price of 99 cents thereafter, based on photos from the Instagram community this time round.

When you search for a term, ‘The Color Of’ finds the Instagram images based on their tags, and overlap them to form an abstract image, which you can share on Facebook and Twitter, save as your phone’s wallpaper, or even send as a postcard (with our partners at Sincerely). Colors can also be searched by location or username.

In addition to creating your own, you can explore what the other users have created with the app. The Color Of is an annonymous, free-sharing network where you can view, share or save anyone’s creations.

‘The Color Of’ project adds on to the emerging field of new media and data art, where the work goes beyond a static medium by co-creating an art piece together with the user, the photo community and their ever-changing data. As a mobile app, users now have a piece of the project with them for an extended art experience anywhere and anytime.

From its creation till today, thecolorof.com web experiment has over 300 000 visits. Since thecolorof.com began tracking images created by its users 3 months ago, over 20 000 images have been created.

You can find out more here

Instant Streetview 

Instant results for Google Streetview searches in as-you-type format:

Simply start typing an address, place name or location, to be instantly taken there via Google Street View.

If no Street View exists at the location, or if your search is too broad (e.g. “France”), a map will be shown instead.

Google Calculator 

If you type in a simple math question (ie 2*2), a calculator interface will appear at the top of the results.

Photo Timeline

Using Google Images, enter a search term and a year to construct a visual timeline on anything.

Try it out here

scr-img - Bookmarklet helps find images sources on webpages

Helpful bookmarklet for those looking for the source of the original image.

Src Img is a bookmarklet that interfaces with Google™ Image Search to help you find the creators of images you see on blogs that are too lame cool for attribution.

When you click the bookmarklet, what you will see is an icon ‘?¿’ on top of each image (as shown in the photo above) - click on that icon and automatically a new tab will open revealing a Google Image search for that image.

It may not find everything you are looking for (a lot of reverse-imaging services don’t), but this is one of the more simplified ways of doing so.

You can get the bookmarklet from here

Google reportedly considering bid to acquire Yahoo (via The Next Web)

Following recent reports that Microsoft was interested in a bid, troubled Yahoo could have another potential buyer in the form of Google.

The Wall Street Journal reports today that Google has been in discussions with at least two private equity firms about assembling a co-financed bid for Yahoo’s core business. However, the newspaper’s sources say that nothing is certain yet and a formal proposition hasn’t been assembled thus far.

More Here

Google defines “austerity package” as “a promise, followed by a wink”

Technically, Google, I think it’s a bit more than that … [link]

Google Gravity by Mr Doob

Experimental piece of web fun, which turns web search results into objects that fall due to gravity.

The above search terms I used were “Mr Doob” and “The Guardian”

http://mrdoob.com/projects/chromeexperiments/google_gravity/

What Semantic Markup Is & How It Will Change The Internet Forever [Technology Explained] via MakeUseOf

Last week, Google helped to advance the internet in another giant leap forward as they announced that they would now be making use of semantic meta-data in their search results – specifically in the form of a new kind of search category for recipes.

Recipes?! Yes – users of the US-based Google will now notice a new Recipe button in the usual sidebar search buttons, alongside News, Books, Places, Images etc. Clicking on that will give you a special view of search results, which have a small preview image, show user reviews and ingredients too.

What’s so amazingly cool about this? Why should you care?How will this one step change the internet forever? Read on to find out exactly why this matters.

Read on here

Inframutt (via PSFK)

Search engine returns search results from Google which are the LEAST popular

Link here for Inframutt

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What Does China Censor Online?

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