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Urban Tapestries

Urban Tapestries Urban Tapestries is a Proboscis project exploring social and cultural uses of the convergence of place and mobile technologies through trans-disciplinary research. To help us model emerging social and cultural behaviours this platform allows people to author and access place-based content (text, audio and pictures). It is a framework for exploring and sharing experience and knowledge, for leaving and annotating ephemeral traces of peoples' presence in the geography of the city. New browser window: Urban Tapestries

Visitors Studio

Visitors Studio Visitors Studio is an experimental online space for collaborative creativity. An exploratory project set up to create online, real-time, net art residencies with UK-based artists - Visitors Studio enables participants to experiment, jam and perform in real time with other online artists and audiences. New browser window: Visitors Studio

Pledgebank

Pledgebank We all know what it is like to feel powerless, that our own actions can't really change the things that we want to change. PledgeBank is about beating that feeling by connecting users with other people who also want to make a change. Users create a pledge which has the basic format 'I'll do something, but only if other people will pledge to do the same thing'. Successful pledges are the ones that succeed in getting their target number of people involved! New browser window: Pledgebank

mumsnet

mumsnet mumsnet was set up in January 2000 by three mums who met in antenatal classes and discovered that the best source of information on pre and post birth parenting was the other mums in the group. The idea behind mumsnet was to build a much larger circle of parents sharing their know-how on the net. New browser window: mumsnet

BBC Action Network

BBC Action Network Action Network helps people change something in their local area, get in touch with people who feel the same way and get advice on taking action. Anyone can contribute to the site and most of the content is written by the public and reflects their views. New browser window: BBC Action Network

Geocaching

Geocaching Geocaching is an entertaining adventure game for GPS users. The basic idea is that individuals and organizations set up caches all over the world and share the locations of these caches on the internet. Other GPS users can then use the location coordinates to find the caches in the real environment. Once found, a cache may provide the visitor with a wide variety of rewards. All the visitor is asked to do is leave something else for the next visitor. New browser window: Geocaching

BBC Springwatch

BBC Springwatch Springwatch and Autumnwatch represent a survey of the seasons tracking the arrival and departure of spring and autumn in the UK. The public have recorded more than 150,000 first sightings of key species; making these survey's the biggest of their kind in the world. Together these projects are creating the most complete picture yet of spring and autumn unfolding. They are also helping scientists understand how our seasons are changing and what needs to be done to help wildlife thrive in the UK. New browser window: BBC Springwatch

openDemocracy

openDemocracy openDemocracy is the leading independent website on global current affairs - free to read, free to participate, free to the world. It offers stimulating, critical analysis, promoting dialogue and debate on issues of global importance and linking citizens from around the world. New browser window: openDemocracy

SecondLife

SecondLife SecondLife is a 3-D virtual world entirely built and owned by its residents. Since opening to the public in 2003, it has grown explosively and today is inhabited by over a million people around the globe. In entering SecondLife you discover a vast digital continent teeming with people, entertainment, experiences and opportunity. Residents can meander around and explore places, join in conversations with others, attend debates and go and watch gigs. The more attuned SecondLifers build their own modes of transport, buy their own land, erect houses and set up virtual businesses. New browser window: SecondLife

Patient Opinion

Patient Opinion Patient Opinion enables patients to share their experiences of health care, and by doing so help other patients - and perhaps even change the NHS. As well as allowing everyone to see what patients are saying about their services, it also offers a way to feed the experience of patients back to the NHS so that their insights and ideas can be put to good use. New browser window: Patient Opinion

Electroplankton

Electroplankton Created by Toshio Iwai for Nintendo DS, Electroplankton presents a combination of art and music that unfolds in different ways with every touch of the screen. A unique musical experience - Electroplakton combines mobile microphone capabilities with 10 musical modes helping players get in touch with their creative side. Making music has never been so easy. New browser window: Electroplankton

Other links of interest

The Human Genome Project

The Human Genome Project (HGP) refers to the international 13-year effort to discover all the estimated 20,000-25,000 human genes and make them accessible for further biological study.

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Online social networking

A social network service specifically focuses on helping users build and verify online social networks for whatever purpose. In general, social networking services, such as MySpace and Facebook, allow users to create a profile for themselves. Users can upload a picture of themselves and can often be "friends" with other users. In most social networking services, both users must confirm that they are friends before they are linked.

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Photo and Video sharing

Online photo and video sharing services allow users to publish or transfer their digital assets online to share content with others. Many sites allow users to control if they want to share publicly or limit use to a private group of invited individuals. Functionality is provided through websites and applications that facilitate the upload, display and tagging of images and video.

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Wikipedia

Wikipedia is an online encyclopaedia collaboratively written by its readers. It uses a unique type of website called a wiki that makes collaboration easy. Users constantly add, edit and improve information and content on the Wikipedia site - making thousands of changes an hour. Changes are recorded on an article's history and inappropriate changes are usually removed quickly. Repeat offenders can also be blocked from editing.

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ebay

eBay describes itself as The World's Online MarketplaceŽ, enabling trade on a local, national and international basis. With a diverse and active community of individuals and small businesses, eBay offers an online platform where people can buy, sell and trade items online.

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