Posted on Tuesday, July 28th, 2015 by Zach Shapiro
CreateTrips is an iOS app that lets you create and share detailed travel itineraries with your friends. The app lets you create travel plans on your own or in a collaborative manner, adding cities to your list along with the dates that you’ll be in that location.
The Nostalgia Machine is a virtual jukebox showcasing the most popular songs from each year, dating back to 1960. It’s a simple premise but it can lead to hours of entertainment since it’s executed so well.
We The Economy offers 20 short films exploring and explaining economic issues, created by Paul G. Allen’s Vulcan Production and Morgan Spurlock’s Cinelon.
Flowkey offers a comprehensive piano instruction program, designed to help anyone at any experience level learn or improve upon their piano skills.
Findery is an app designed to tell more detailed stories about the world around us. From “Castles of Germany” to “Dubai Roadtrips,” Findery is filled with travel stories from exotic locations around the world.
Officelovin’ is a place where you can discover the best tech office spaces from around the world, focusing mainly on startups and tech companies.
Inkshares puts the power of the publishing into the reader’s hands, allowing people to fund projects that they find interesting. Similar to Kickstarter or Indiegogo, Inkshares allows fans to directly support creative projects.
Selfit is a mixed reality creation tool that lets you quickly create and share amazing moments with photo or video selfies. Using the Selfit camera, you can add augmented reality graphics to your photo or video selfies.
Readlang is an easily installable web browser extension that helps users learn and practice more than 40 different languages.
Digg TV is Digg’s new endless stream of curated web videos. The videos are short and typically come from YouTube, but all you have to do is sit back and watch.
Dubsmash is a mobile messaging platform that lets users communicate in an entirely new way: by recording videos of themselves dubbed over famous quotes.
Photomath may be the most useful application for worldwide math students of all levels. worldwide math students of all levels. It uses your smartphone’s camera function to read typed math problems (expected to be from a textbook), solving those problems in real time.
Google Feud is a Family Feud-style web game that lets players guess Google’s most popular autocomplete search terms.
The Great Human Odyssey: World of Extremes is an online interactive documentary experience created by the CBC. There are three different stories on the site, each giving viewers a first-person look at what it’s like to live the unique life of a nomad.
100 Days Without Fear is a blog documenting one woman’s challenge to face a new fear every day. All of the fears are listed in advance on Michelle’s website, and they range from “Watch a scary movie” to “Trust in long-distance love.”
Clash lets you type in any tweet-length message, which it then converts to audio. Rather than having a computerized voice recite the words you write like other services might do, Clash plays back the message through audio samples. The site takes samples from everywhere — primarily popular songs, but also from TV, movies, YouTube videos, and historic speeches.
Yik Yak is a recent social media app and website where users enter their phone number to get a live feed of what everyone is talking about in their community. Users are able to share their thoughts with people around them while keeping their privacy. Yik Yak is similar to Twitter in the sense you share your thoughts and things you notice, the main difference is that Yik Yak is anonymous.
Vocativ is a digital media outlet with a refreshing, technology-driven approach to news and journalism. The site claims to find its sources in the deep web, uncovering stories from places that traditional, established media companies don’t dare venture.
Meerkat is an iOS and web application that lets Twitter users live stream video to their followers. The app was a hit at this year’s South By Southwest Interactive, and because the app links so seamlessly with Twitter, tons of notable names — actors, athletes, musicians, etc. have already created accounts and begun sharing live streams.
This list was compiled using the Weekly Faves section from All My Faves, the best site for Web discovery in the world.
