Be inspired
Benchmark projects
Sources of inspiration and yardsticks for your ideas.
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Inspirational sites and services blog updates: October 08; November 08; December 08/January 09.
The ultimate networked doodling device
Simple & fun digital whiteboarding
What people are saying on del.icio.us
- Share ideas by drawing on GE's multi-user online whiteboard rohinirathi
- cool, especially *if* you can draw
kitty_alex - GEC's contribution to collaborative diddling dickb_mac.com
Filtering a stream of love and hate
Tapping into emotions on Twitter and putting them on display
What people are saying on del.icio.us
- A simple and beautiful twitter visualizer liquid06
- a twitter social experiment expressioncollege
- Beautiful Twitter mash-up. Love, Hate, Think, Believe, Feel, Wish. zaccaro80
Are you taking notes?
Easy to use information capture system for storing, filing, retrieving and sharing all the little things in life
What people are saying on del.icio.us
Sharing enthusiasms
A simple way of using personal collections to create dialogue and build online communities
What people are saying on del.icio.us
- Squirl lets you organize, search and share your collectibles. patrozoo
- Squirl is the best way to catalog, organize and share your records, movies, books, comic books, stamps, coins, or practically anything else. cryptarium
- A site to list the stuff you own. boneco
Turning talkers into doers
A handful of speakers to inspire you to go Do
What people are saying on del.icio.us
- I totally want to go to the 2009 Lectures... pipstar
- To give you the tools and the desire to change the things you care about joevans
- a green version of TED, less up itself and more environmentally focused gedcarroll
Sourcing the wisdom of crowds
Watch the world submit design solutions for your projects
What people are saying on del.icio.us
- Perhaps an idea for how public service projects can be filtered, made better, before commissioning stage even begins? the_pied_pipes
- Site for freelancing design projects - like elance but cooler and more open seebq
- Neat idea and a decent execution. h3h
Social entrepreneurs
No-nonsense approach to supporting and funding people with great ideas
What people are saying on del.icio.us
- UnLtd supports social entrepreneurs - people with vision, drive, commitment and passion who want to change the world for the better. We do this by providing a complete package of funding and support to help individuals make their ideas a reality. pembridge
- providing a complete package of funding and support to help individuals make their ideas a reality. Keli_Yen
- great social entrepreneurialism site MaverickTV
Practical information
How to gather up impenetrable but important public information – and make it usable!
- TheyWorkForYou.com is a non-partisan website run by a charity which aims to make it easy for people to keep tabs on their elected and unelected representatives in Parliament and other assemblies. davefleet
- via Big Shiny Thing. Useful leftywill
- Are your MPs and peers working for you in the UK's Parliament? r4today
Making sense of statistics
Putting dry-as-dust information to work – and making it entertaining
What people are saying on del.icio.us
- What a great world statistics site! 27JInstructionalTech
- Truly amazing flash-animated presentation software, that is used to present even more amazing statistics on developing countries and world history adamborries
- A great interactive map website suitable for helping students understand math and social trends. district6
Emotional interface
Beautiful new ways of visualising data and displaying shared human experiences
What people are saying on del.icio.us
- coolest website ive ever been to claudia.norton
- interesting project about human emotion linking to respective web sites. roothack.exe
- An exploration of human emotion, in six movements TextualLiaisons
Crafty businesses
Connecting makers with buyers; enable people to make a living making things
Freedom of expression
Elegant and simple re-slicing of the web to reveal important cultural and political perspectives
What people are saying on del.icio.us
- The Internet is a new frontier in the struggle for human rights. Governments – with the help of some of the biggest IT companies in the world – are cracking down on freedom of expression. stevewil
- Undermine censorship by publishing fragments of censored material on your site phoenixdowne
- The web is a great tool for sharing ideas and freedom of expression. However, efforts to try and control the Internet are growing. Internet repression is reported in countries like China, Vietnam, Tunisia, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Syria. chuxley
