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http://streetart.blinkr.net
A site devoted to spot the best street art, graffiti, stencils and public sculptures in flickr.

The site was built in mid 2007 and it serves as a source of inspiration and information on what’s being done all over the world regarding street art. It already has more than 18.000 entries!

http://idealist.blinkr.net/

Idealist is a platform for designers and creators to publish and share their creativity, get feedback from the community and increase the popularity of their ideas.

In early 2007 I started Idealist because I believe on the free flow of ideas. I believe that there are tons of great ideas that are not being shared (due to fear of being copied, laziness, insecurity, or the lack of the channel). Idealist aims to be the channel to show and promote all those ideas.

Idealist is all about ideas, concepts, sketches, designs and new products.
Idealist displays user submitted and rated ideas.
Idealist wants to spread good ideas, because there are a lot of ideas that often get lost in dusty notebooks, and these are good ideas that are worth to share with other people.

Idealist has very good reviews from the media, it is used as a source of inspiration for many bloggers and it has an active and critic community.

http://finddesign.blinkr.net
The Design Search Engine

find:Design is a collaborative custom search engine focused on design built using Google’s core search technology in order to find results from design related news, portals, blogs, directories, media, podcasts, companies, portfolios and other design resources.

Why is it different than the normal Google search?
Because when you perform a search at find:Design, Google search the entire web but emphasize on design related sites.
How does Google know which sites are design related?
Through the Google coop framework, we set a list of design related sites and a group of keywords that orient the Google search engine to find design related results. (the process of adding sites and refinements is collaborative, which means that the search engine gets the expertise of its contributors to deliver the best results
And the best thing is that you can refine the results by labels that add a deeper filtering in the results.

Adult-site project.
The website allowed visitors to discover, recommend and rate adult-links.

Skateboard video rating community website.

A digg-like site devoted to skateboard videos.
Users could link videos, comment, tag and rate others links.

The project was build using the Pligg GPL software, which is based on Meneame
Part of the videos were fetched through google videos feed.
The site went alive in early 2007.

http://designcorner.blinkr.net/

DesignCorner is a feed aggregator for design related feeds, with special interest on product design, graphics and visuals, interaction, research and innovation…
Feeds are aggregated manually and posts are kept or deleted in order to display the best and freshest news about design.

DesignCorner started as a personal project to have all the design-related news and articles available in one place…
I built it in mid 2006, and since then, it has been doing pretty well:

Currently it fetches and displays content from more than 125 sites,
it has more than 40.000 articles,
it has more than 15.000 visitors per month (and counting…)
it is #1 result in Google for “design corner” search

A site that collects and displays videos from youtube, google video and others.
The main attraction is the randomness, allowing the user to view videos without begin overwhelmed by too much offer…

The naming VVV (Veni Vidi Video) came from the well know sentence “veni vidi vici“.
*this was an experimental website, built with wordpress.
[now it is not online anymore because I like more the Stumbleupon Video, which is the same concept, but better executed :D]