If you never managed to get an invite to Ffffound!, then try I ? IT which is open to all. I haven’t played with it much but it appears to be much the same, even with a lot of the same graphics and ladies, although it brings in tagging and more of a social networking aspect. I’m not sure if I like that, I felt quite liberated by Ffffound!, not having to slavishly tag everything, but at least with I ? IT you’ve got a half decent chance of finding something again in the future…

Yes that’s right, the rumours have been proved true, Flickr now does video. At the moment it’s for Pro users only but someone at Flickr has obviously decided they can give YouTube a run for their money. Let’s hope the quality stays high and it becomes a source of interesting footage rather than Jackass style japes and high school student miming…

Check out the Flickr blog for more info and check out the group to watch some.

Download the PicLens plugin for Firefox and take your image searching full screen. A small button gets added to your browser bar and when you click it you get a beautiful fullscreen wall of the images on that page. You can even image search directly from PicLens by typing in the search field. The results get added to the wall as they download, making an ever growing scrolling display which is fun to play with even if it doesn’t return what you’re after…

I just found out about the Web2DNA Art Project, which will analyse any website and create an image of it’s ‘DNA’:

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I just saw this over at Wired. It’s a great explanation of the complexities of the web, and how blogs work for the slightly less technical minded such as myself. It shows just how far your words can go and just how extensive the data machine behind the web really is. It’s presented in a nice way too.

I also checked out Matthew Hurst’s own site, where there are some lovely visualisations of the ‘blogosphere’ making the intangible tangible. Well, in an intangible kind of way…

Found this great visual trace tool on Uneasysilence. It lets you see how the data which makes up your website actually gets to the viewer, through various servers and gateways. It uses Google Maps to show you, so you can zoom around and look at it as a map or a satellite image as usual.

The image here shows the route for holster.co.uk