Friday fun: Clever Clocks

Here are a few interesting and creative ways to display time.

Analogy - Jason Yip has made something something so simple and clever you'll wonder why you didn't think of it.

This Flash clock shows time literally sliding by.

The clock shows that time marches on and overwrites the past.

The World Clock shows up to date global statistics - some of which are alarming and depressing.

The Barcode clock is just what you'd think it would be.

And one of my favorites is Clockr. It uses random images from Flickr to produce the numbers.

Mash up derby

At Wikipediavision you can watch as people around the world make updates to Wikipedia. Each notice includes a link to the subject where you can see what was just updated.

The concept is based on Flickrvision, where you can see new pictures as they are uploaded to the photo-sharing site. Pretty addictive.

These are both examples of Mashups. A mashup is when people take more than one application and mix them together. (Google Maps with Wikipedia and Flickr respectively in these cases).

Other examples of mashups include WeatherBonk, Pageflakes and the Wheel of Lunch.