Internet Activity 3

Google maps mashups

There are many google maps mashups out there, some of the more interesting ones are:

http://www.flightstats.com/go/FlightTracker/trackFlight.do

It lets you track your flight (well, all flights) to see when they will arrive at the airport.

There is also Flicks (http://photoskml.googlepages.com/flicks.htm) which lets you see where pictures were taken on flicker (the person needs to embed a geocode to tell it where, but thats all). It is nice because then you can see the sights from one location (if people aren't lying about where the pictures were taken). It could even help you to decide where to vacation to!

A third one is:

http://www.globalwarmingart.com/sealevel

It tells you where places are vulnerable to rising sea levels. This would be important for coastal cities because it could help people decided whether or not to move out of their homes.

Generators and the likes.

Here are some things that I have generated using different generators:
This one was created using http://hetemeel.com/einsteinform.php. It is a simple generator, but I liked it because I could make it do the 1984 thing, Einstein has clearly been gotten by the Ministry of Truth.

This next one was created using the clippy generator (http://www.imagegenerator.net/create/clippy/). Everyone loves Clippy!

Well, at least Clippy thinks so...

You know you want to make your own O'reilly books... (http://www.oreillymaker.com/)




Thoughts on Online generators:

I definately thought that the generators that I picked were fun to use, I enjoyed the Einstein one the most because it was simple to use, and easy for me to make him write something funny.

For the most part Online generators are just for wasting time, but there are some that are useful, like password generators, name generators and Lorem Ipsum generators. The ones that actually generate text are generally more useful than those that generate images, there are however exceptions, like the 3D box generator which lets you make a box that represents your software or something that you are selling.