Simon Overell's
Stuff
Photo Soup
PhotoSoup is a photo word puzzle developed while I was on internship at Yahoo Research Barcelona. PhotoSoup uses creative commons licenced photos shared on Flickr to generate a word puzzle. The photos are provided as clues and the tags of the photos have to be found in the puzzle. Photo soup began as an entry for the Yahoo EU hack day where it won “Coolest Hack”.
PhotoSoup was developed by Lluis Garcia Pueyo, Borkur Sigurbjornsson, Vanessa Murdock, Carlos “Chato” Castillo, Simon Overell and Roelof van Zwol. Personalised photo soup puzzles can be generated and embeded into web pages or facebook pages and shared. Read more on the Photo Soup project page.
Simon Overell's Stuff
Top Websites Movie
A simple application that downloads images of the most popular webpages according to their Alexa ranking and combines them into a video.
Maps
My PhD was in Geographic Information Retrieval. A significant part of my thesis involved generating maps to visualise my results. These maps tell the story of my PhD.
TRIDE
TRIDE is a Teleo-Reactive Integrated Development Environment and was built as part of my Master's Project. It is a cross compilation IDE for the Lego Mindstorm robots written in Java, and was used as a teaching aid on ICL's 3rd year robotics course.
Twicipe
Twicipe is a website which I now very rarely maintain extracting recipes from Twitter. Built over 3 week-ends in CakePHP with a logo kindly donated by u89djt.
140 Character Web App
Having been inspired by the 140 character webapp challenge, I've attempted my own...
Photo Soup
PhotoSoup is a photo word puzzle developed while I was on internship at Yahoo Research Barcelona.
Github
I've sporadically worked on a number of Open Source projects over the years. All my projects since 2006 make it to Github.
Portfolio CMS
Due to frustrations with bloat in other CMS applications (Wordpress, Drupal, Joomla, etc). I wrote my own on top of CakePHP, Prototype.js and 960.css. It powers this site. Fork it on Github.