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Taras Novak has created a Flash-based Flickr mashup he calls Flickorama that could be the basis for a lot of new, high-quality Flickr experiences. Flickorama has a number of things going for it: * an expressive, coherent visual design; * an appreciation for the fact that juxtaposition of photographs can lead to insight; * a full-screen mode that turns the application into an interactive lightbox; * several built-in ways to visually organize image sets. You start with Flickorama by entering in a search term; here are results for Yosemite, a Flickrological favorite and a reliable source of beautiful images. Once you have results back, you can use the arrangement toolbar to organize the images on the canvas

The Page Inlink Analyzer provides a first stab at that interface. It gives you the top 35 or so pages for a site on the left, and for each inbound link you get a report of how many inbound links that page has (for the page itself and for its top-level domain) and how many times the page has been bookmarked in Delicous.

To help you make design and development decisions. Knowing what websites work and which ones tank can give you insights and inspiration on what design elements, website features, and website content is effective. 1. Yahoo! Site Explorer__2. Compete__3. Quantcast__ 1. Yahoo! Site Explorer 2. Compete__4. Alexa__5. Feed Compare__6. popuri.us__7. socialmeter__ 8. TweetVolume__9. Quarkbase__10. BlogPulse Profiles__11. Technorati Blogging Central 12. Statbrain.com__13. Cubestat____14. dnScoop__15. WebsiteOutlook To help you in your analysis, here are 15 top-notch, free, and simple web tools to help you learn more about a particular website.

These are the most amazingly concise notes I’ve seen of social web app best practices by the guy who made delicious.

# See your Flickr photosets in a great-looking, fullscreen display. # Deeplink to the exact sets or photos you want. # Downloadable to run on your own site or blog. # Customizable interface and color palette. # Lightning fast - Blow Up is under 50 kilobytes.