Links for 2006-05-16 – plasticbag.org

Snap.com is a new, weird and quite interesting search engine One of the weirder interfaces I’ve seen in a while – large, almost full-size screencaps, heavy on Ajax and interesting interface technologies. Pretty interesting… And the blog has nice digg-like buttons which I might have to steal…
The Los Angeles Police Department has its own weblog Apparently seven policemen who lost their lives have a star on Hollywood Boulevard. Didn’t know that. Quite interesting.
37signals job board seems to be ticking over quite nicely… I wonder what the quality of the candidates they get through the site is like, and whether they’re a good fit to their potential new employers…
Chris Bowley talks about opening up the BBC’s data in the form of APIs through BBC Backstage I worked with Chris on the Annotatable Audio project and he’s now working for the team that I used to look after. He basically pretty much rocks, so you’ll all be needing to go and read his blog now…

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