Comments on: Blog Plasma

By: Gustaff

Gustaff — Wed, 10 Aug 2005 06:21:03 +0000

There's an SDK to access the data: http://feeds.scripting.com/sdk

can't open this url. Do u have a mirror one?

By: jfarnold

jfarnold — Fri, 14 Jan 2005 13:11:35 +0000

http://www.xspace.net/

This was done by apple many years ago, and it never caught on.

By: lunatic

lunatic — Fri, 14 Jan 2005 01:01:26 +0000

Keep in mind other ways of mapping in addition to the standard lines and connectors.
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Maybe something with -tabs- along the top for showing subsets of the "map", with one tab for the overall view. Keeps it from being to busy and overwhelming.
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Perhaps use standard mapping color theories and practices. It's been fine-tuned over generations...

By: Lane Mohler

Lane Mohler — Thu, 13 Jan 2005 23:02:51 +0000

This is pretty much the basis of the

By: Dev T

Dev T — Thu, 13 Jan 2005 21:08:57 +0000

Have you seen the visual search engine
http://www.kartoo.com
It is a "metasearch engine with visual display interfaces. When you click on OK, KartOO launches the query to a set of search engines, gathers the results, compiles them and represents them in a series of interactive maps through a proprietary algorithm". Requires flash

By: Joshua

Joshua — Mon, 10 Jan 2005 18:40:05 +0000

You may also want to check out what the people at tribe.net are doing.

By: Kevin Burton

Kevin Burton — Sat, 08 Jan 2005 08:19:39 +0000

You're essentially just talking about graph visualization.

It's certainly very interesting but the issue is that unless the UI is done VERY well then its not much use.

Its just too much data.... its pretty but just too much data.

http://www.peerfear.org/rss/permalink/2003/02/19/1045648437-Reputation_in_NewsMonster_and_Blogs.shtml

and

http://www.peerfear.org/rss/permalink/2003/02/19/1045684244-Blogstreets_Blog_Graph.shtml

By: Ian Kennedy

Ian Kennedy — Sat, 08 Jan 2005 07:14:03 +0000

Just was over on Technorati and see one of the runners up to their developer's contest made just such a tool. Check out Michael Dale's Touchgraph which is a downloadable today but Michael says will be web-enabled soon:

http://hybrid.ucsc.edu/~dale/technorati/

By: Steve Wilhelm

Steve Wilhelm — Fri, 07 Jan 2005 19:58:47 +0000

In my former life, I used Tom Sawyer Software's Visualization http://www.tomsawyer.com/home/products.php and Inxight's VizServer, http://www.inxight.com/products/vizserver/, to prototype visualizations of large social networks.

Both work fairly well.

By: Waqas Ahmed

Waqas Ahmed — Fri, 07 Jan 2005 18:50:44 +0000

Musicplasma could be more useful by showing meta information about each artist and link on a mouse hover... for example a summary about the genre and background for each artist, and more details about why a particular artist is linked to another. How many people bought both artists together... etc.

The same would apply to a visual map for blog relationships.