Archive for August, 2007

(This really should be your webpage as a graph. See below)

Just read an amazing post of a bunch of different data visualisation techniques and I spotted this one to visualise your website as a graph.

So I did a couple, here is ZoomIn

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And here is Trade Me.

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As you can see the trade me tree is a lot more dense!

You can build your own tree, visit the website as graph site and make your own !

What do the colors mean?
blue: for links (the A tag)
red: for tables (TABLE, TR and TD tags)
green: for the DIV tag
violet: for images (the IMG tag)
yellow: for forms (FORM, INPUT, TEXTAREA, SELECT and OPTION tags)
orange: for linebreaks and blockquotes (BR, P, and BLOCKQUOTE tags)
black: the HTML tag, the root node
gray: all other tags

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ProjectX is two years old today!

Que the music or the video (Gotta love Survivor!)



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Search is part of the fundamental infrastructure of the Internet. And, it is currently broken.” - Jimmy Wales


Wikia has officially entered the search market, when they announced at OSCON that they were purchasing grub from Looksmart. Can they succeed where Yahoo, Microsoft, Ask and Altavista etc have failed?

From the press release…

“The desire to collaborate and support a transparent and open platform for search is clearly deeply exciting to both open source and businesses. Look for other exciting announcements in the coming months as we collectively work to free the judgment of information from invisible rules inside an algorithmic black box.”

If you’re interested you can find out more from Search Wikia page

With an open source search engine, all sorts of applications and mashups will be possible. That begs the question? Who do you trust more Google or Wikipedia ?

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