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Tour de Sound – a music search engine

Ted — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 17:13:31 +0000

Tour de Sound is a music search engine that mashes Yahoo! BOSS with Amazon‘s associate service. It allows you to search for music and then visit a resource page that uses Amazon to provide a sample of the song and easy access to download the music.

As a side note, Tour de Sound also uses the YUI Grids to quickly build the layout and design for the site. Save time and effort by using this Grids Builder to layout out your next site.

Middlespot uses BOSS for Mash Tabs

Ted — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:33:30 +0000

Middlespot has announced their latest project: Mashtabs. This is a browser-based workspace that lets you curate a collection of web sites, files, and snippets about any subject. It’s a bit like Yahoo! Search Pad, but much more interactive.

Here’s a description by Middlespot:

Have you ever wanted a blank workspace on the web where you could paste anything you like in any order you want? A mashtab lets you do just that.

Collect relevant websites, links, images, videos, files, widgets, and just about anything in one central spot, access it from anywhere, or even embed it in another website.

You can annotate, cluster, layer, pan, resize, tweet and share the content you’ve collected. A mashtab makes a great start page or personal collection of interests.
Mashtab Web Site

Screenshot of mashtabs.com

Mashtab Interface

Developers that are comfortable with Firebug or the Web Developer Toolbar plugins for Firefox will find the interface familiar. There’s a toolbar at the bottom of the page that lets you edit your particular tab. There’s also a search engine above, powered by BOSS, that lets you find new information for your mash tab.

Color scheme generator

Ted — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 13:06:41 +0000

What color is happiness? What about the French Revolution, birth, and liberty? There’s a new search based tool that can tell you these answers.

How does it work?

Here’s some info from Instant Color Schemes:

We take 5 related images from Yahoo Image Search and then show the most prominent 6 colors from each image. Each column of colors is taken from a single image.
Instant Color Schemes

This is a fun example of using BOSS for more than a standard search application. You can easily take this idea and develop a module for blogs or other sites.