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Skype - P2P VoIP

Related link: http://www.skype.com/

P2P telephony from the kazaa guys.

I hear that they proxy the phonecalls for the double nat problem. Interesting.

GeoURL ICBM Address Server

Related link: http://www.geourl.com/

GeoURL is a location-to-URL reverse directory. This will allow you to find URLs by their proximity to a given location. Find your neighbor’s blog, perhaps, or the web page of the restaurants near you.

RDFMapper - geospacial blog annotation

Related link: http://www.mapbureau.com/rdfmapper/

RDFMapper is a web service that searches an RDF file for resources with geographic locations, and returns a map overlayed with dots representing located resources. Clicking on a dot displays a web page representing the clicked resource. Arbitrary images can be treated as maps, so the service can be used for any kind of image annotation.

A Taxonomy of User-Interface Metaphors

Related link: http://www.mcs.vuw.ac.nz/~chikken/research/writing/chinz_paper/

A wordy but good academic/intellectual look at how metaphors are used in user interface.