Links: Nov 2, 2005

Collection of linky goodness:

• Boston HyperMap Atlas--interesting demo of the StrataVarious map system, built on top of Google Maps. It's a fun little tourist map of landmarks around Boston, with some interesting UI gimmicks.
• KMaps--a platform built on Google Maps, including mobile devices such as Blackberry and Treo.
• mighTyV--winner of the BBC Backstage contest. Social TV app, with hooks to EyeTV. By the ever-wonderful Mr Brocard with Leo Lapworth.
• Where--a mobile location service from one of the speakers at our similarly-named Where 2.0 conference. SMS LBS goodness. It makes me wonder how much uptake Google SMS has versus other SMS-based local search. I'd love to see figures on this.
• Riya--face recognition to automatically describe pictures. Clever! I'd hoped Google would be first out with this--it'd be a natural combination of their PhD hiring and Picasa acquisition.
• Shadows--is annotation the killer app for these social bookmarking sites? I'm skeptical. Compare Raw Sugar, Wink, et al.
• Sphere--very nice blog search. Technorati finds more. I wonder how all the blog search tools compare: some index only feeds, others parse HTML. I haven't found a table that breaks down all of them along the different axes, but I'd love to read such a comparison.
• Connexions--CC-licensed academic materials with tools. Appears to want to be like James Burke's Connections, which will soon be realized in the K-Web project.
• Kaboodle--interesting link packaging take on social bookmarking. I like the idea of links collected by a task or theme. It's not just "this is a good link" but also "this is a good link for ...".
• Kids and Hacking--the conversation continues.