Flash visualizations coming to Digg: Stack and Swarm

TechCrunch's Michael Arrington has the scoop on a couple fancy new visualization tools that will be launching next Monday on Digg. Both are Flash-based visualizations that let you keep tabs on Digg stories in an eye-pleasing way. The first, Digg Stack, shows recent stories as vertical bars and diggs as blocks that fall on top of them, building up each story's "stack." You can click on a stack to see just that story, where a recent activity graph is shown. Digg Swarm shows stories as a sort of galaxy of circles, bigger circles indicating more popular stories, and users as yellow satellites that appear next to stories as they are dugg. These both look pretty cool (and would make neat screen savers), but I don't foresee them being especially useful beyond simple novelty. In related news, Arrington says Digg will be launching a new Sports section in August, to complement the Science, World & Business, Videos, Entertainment, and Gaming sections it added earlier this month.

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