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Tagxedo lets you create beautiful word clouds ("tag clouds")
The words for the cloud can be entered manually, or taken from a webpage (I used our own front page, as you can probably see). While editing the cloud, it's rendered in Silverlight and each word "pops up" when you hover over it, so you can easily read it. But the end product is just a visually appealing mass (or mess) of words, with no functionality. I wish they made a screensaver which pulls words off an RSS feed and renders them like this.
(On a side note, did you guys notice how Silverlight recently started popping up in more and more places? Interesting!)
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Subscribe to commentsNikolaj MøllerApr 17th 2010 8:20PM
Yeah i just noticed that i was silverlight which is good
Brian!Apr 17th 2010 8:38PM
Ahh Silverlight. Another rich-media tool that Apple won't let on its new platforms. *sigh*
There have been some nice things done in Silverlight. 4.0 just released I believe. It is slow going, but I think it is coming along well. IT might soon have the featureset to replace Flash (unlike HTML).
Hardy LeungApr 17th 2010 9:41PM
Hi,
this is Hardy Leung, creator of Tagxedo. Thanks for your review of Tagxedo. I see you like Tagxedo but want it to do more (who wouldn't?). I have good news for you :D
(1) You can actually save your cloud to a really huge image (16MP is the maximum). It can handle 600 words without any problem. It can handle more, I just decided to cap it at 600 so people won't complain about slow runtime.
(2) You didn't mention but I think everyone who tried Tagxedo should explorer the History mode, where you can see ALL the "respins" so that you don't have to worry about losing the best respin you have done. You can continue to respin when you are in History mode (great for tweaking themes and colors).
(3) I highly recommend trying out the functionality of using images as shape. Check out the gallery (http://www.tagxedo.com/gallery.html) to see what you can do with it. Actually there will be a major Tagxedo update within the next 24 hours that will make using images as shape substantially more fun. Stay tuned or follow me at Twitter (@tagxedo) to find out.
(4) Embedded app -- Tagxedo actually has a "hidden" mode to generate a tag cloud app that you can embed into your webpage. For example, if you go to the last image (the MLK speech) of the Tagxedo home page (http://www.tagxedo.com), you will find that the words dance as you hover, and clicking them will bring you to specific pages. So it is fully functional, just not officially released yet.
Thanks for sharing your opinion on Tagxedo. I love feedback and hopefully you'll like the new version of Tagxedo even better.
-- Hardy Leung (ksleung@tagxedo.com)