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Vox Delicii: a del.icio.us popular visualizer
Michal Migurski's Vox Delicii is a fascinating remix of del.icio.us/popular. It's a Flash-based near-realtime visualization of the most popular links posted to del.icio.us, sorted by date and popularity. The size of each color chip correlates with the relative coverage of that item on a given day, based on samples taken hourly. Green indicates the link has grown in mindshare while red indicates the reverse, and chips are arranged in order of first appearance on del.icio.us -- farther to the left is older, to the right is newer.
The project is an adaptation of a similar project that heat-mapped Google News from Spring 2004 to Summer 2005, but Migurski chose to switch the data source to del.icio.us popular because of its greater transparency as a source, and its better representation of "bottoms-up" mindshare as opposed to Google news's mindshare, largely influenced by major news outlets and their stockholders.
[Via waxy]
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Subscribe to commentstevetorbesAug 4th 2005 8:21PM
Neat site- my only complaint is the use of pop-ups. I can't stand sites that make me change my pop-up blocker options to allow them to hijack my browser.
Sorry, the rant is a bit off topic, but clearly browsing multiple tabs is much easier than browsing multiple windows, especially if I want to peruse lots of del.icio.us tags at once (see article http://www.downloadsquad.com/2005/08/04/browser-tip-of-the-day-keyboard-and-mouse-shortcuts-galore/).
Maybe a minor complaint, but I would certainly visit the site more if it allowed me to keep all of my browsing in one window.