MetaFilter posts tagged with webapp

Odosketch

mhjb — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 03:21:27 -0800

Odosketch - create your own animated sketches (Flash webapp)

Productivity geeks of the world, rejoice!

jbickers — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 13:30:36 -0800

Love the idea of Google Apps, but feel like they already have more of your data than they should? Self-hosted, open-source app OpenGoo just released version 1.0, and it appears to be taking on not just Google Apps but services like Basecamp and Backpack, too. Live demo. Spreadsheets ("coming soon") are a notable omission, but the task lists and calendar integration make this pretty darn attractive to the GTD set.

It's the Web 2.0 eightball.

Mr.Encyclopedia — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 10:45:38 -0800

Having trouble making your decision? Just let the magic power of the internet tell you what to do. You can let someone else do the work, but you're probably better off doing it yourself.

select a color

nickyskye — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 05:29:37 -0800

"Being a typical guy, I have no clue what the colors Lavender and Mauve look like. You can show me Indigo and I won't know if it's more like Violet or Purple. So I made this little app, Name That Color, where you can create a color on the screen (or copy-paste CSS hex# color) and find out the name of the closest matching color." Innovated by MeFite chime.

Walk It

nthdegx — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 03:34:48 -0800

Walk It is a website for planning walking journeys. It gives you a map and directions for the best route, and info on distance, walking time, calorie burn and even CO₂ potentially saved by avoiding the car, taxi or bus. London only, at present, alas.

Dapper: an API for any website

MetaMonkey — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 20:59:03 -0800

Dapper: The Data Mapper
A recently launched service that allows users to extract data from any website into XML, and transform or build applications and mashups with that data. Described by it's creators as a way to, "easily build an API for any website... through a visual and intuitive process". Plagiarism Today, meanwhile, has cause for concern, "Dapper is a scraper. Nothing more... now the technologically impaired can scrape content from any site... the potential danger [is] very, very real".

Online gift manager

cerebus19 — Wed, 23 Nov 2005 11:44:25 -0800

GiftBox is a new web application that allows you to keep track of gifts you've given to others, plan to give to others, or that people have given to you. It lets you create wishlists and send thank-you e-cards. All info is password-protected, and their privacy policy seems better than most. Free for up to three holidays, or $19/year for unlimited holidays. (I am not affiliated with the site in any way; I just admire it and thought that, with the holiday season upon us, others might like it, too.)

LibraryThing: Like Flickr for your books.

monju_bosatsu — Wed, 14 Sep 2005 10:08:54 -0800

LibraryThing. Like Flickr for your books.

Music taste prediction down to a science?

Lush — Mon, 29 Aug 2005 23:10:25 -0800

Pandora. Bound to draw comparisons to Last.fm, LAUNCHcast, and Musicplasma, Pandora (formerly Savage Beast) is a music discovery web application that recommends music based not on popularity, usage habits of other users, or genres/categories but on the deconstructed elements of how the music itself sounds. Fruit of the Music Genome Project, music analysts have for more than five years spent 20 minutes analyzing each song in its ever-growing database for nearly 400 distinct attributes, so when you ask it, "Why is this song playing?" It answers, "Based on what you've told us so far, we're playing this track because it features electronica influences, mild rhythmic syncopation, surreal lyrics, use of call-and-response vocals, and string section beds." (YES! Thank you!) Currently live on public beta. [Flash, 128kbps streams]