VISUAL SEARCHING on the Web by Jill Tinsley

Visual searching on the web Web searching www. Grokker. com www. Kartoo. com www. Quintura. com http: //kids. quintura. com/ Database searching www. Oskope. com amazon, e. Bay, and more www. Like. com shopping

Grokker. com is a free web version. Map view is a visual display with added filters.

Kartoo. com

Quintura allows you to eliminate search terms by clicking on red X

o. Skope is a visual browser that lets you search and organize items from different web services like Amazon, Ebay, You. Tube or Flickr in an intuitive way.

Grid view, mouseover a photo to see details, with additional links

Stacks view

Pile view

List view

Graph view, sorted by price and salesrank

Like. com is for online visual shopping

You can highlight a part of the image you like, and find similar shapes and colors. For example, find dresses with a similar bodice.

Visual News www. reverbiage. com/tags NPR www. marumushi. com/apps/newsmap/ www. labs. digg. com/ www. searchmapr. com/ www. roomformilk. com/ www. buzztracker. org/ www. newsisfree. com/newsmap/

Marumushi. com US top news

Marumushi. com Canada top news

Digg Labs arc

Digg labs stack

Digg labs bigspy

Digg labs swarm

Visual searches - photos http: //ideeinc. com/introvideo/ Video overview demonstrating how to use the site http: //labs. ideeinc. com/multicolour/ colors http: //labs. ideeinc. com/visual/#random=525 098 visual search photos http: //labs. ideeinc. com/upload/ upload photo and find similar

Upload or provide url for image, and find visually similar photos

More visual mashups http: //amadig. com/us/amadig. html youtube and amazon Ø http: //explore. twitter. com/blocks visual twitter Ø http: //twitterposter. com/ visual twitter Ø http: //audiomap. tuneglue. net/ music Ø http: //www. musicmesh. net/ music Ø http: //www. flightwait. com/ Flight delays Ø http: //www. lkozma. net/wpv/ Wikipedia vision Ø

AMADIG: Youtube and Amazon

Visual twitter

Tuneglue

musicmesh

Flight Wait: real-time flight conditions on a map

Flight delays on April 1 st at 4: 35 pm

Wikipedia Vision: anonymous edits to Wikipedia in real-time

More Links very interactive…try these out! Onondaga County Public Library Web. Brain Tafiti VIMA Pic. Lens Viewzi Searchme

http: //visual. onlib. org/aquabrowser/

Web. Brain

Tafiti

Tafiti You tube videos Music: http: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=jw. XPg. Rv. Bo 2 c narrated: http: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=a. Iz. Eq. A 4 W 798

VIMA Visual Image Search

Pic. Lens How Pic. Lens works: http: //www. piclens. com/demo/#

Viewzi

Searchme

For more information Contact Jill Tinsley jilltinsley@cox. net Available online at: http: //www. slideshare. net Title: Information Visualization Using Mashups Keywords: mashups, visualsearching You may link to or download this presentation if you credit the author. Thank you.

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