Digg BigSpy – A New Way To Visualize Digg

admin — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 08:32:39 +0000

One of the first sites that got me interested in real-time data visualizations was digg spy. I had just become hooked on digg when the spy came out, and watching the stories asynchronously roll by was even more intriguing than going to the regular home page. As they say on the digg site, “Digg BigSpy places stories at the top of the screen as they are dugg. As new stories are dugg, older stories move down the list. Bigger stories have more diggs. The projects currently in Digg Labs are the results of collaboration with Digg partner Stamen Design. As the project matures, we’ll be releasing a public API to allow outside developers access to this data”.

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Digg To Launch New Content Visualization Model in July 2006

admin — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 09:07:40 +0000

In the last year I’ve seen many amazing new content visualization models, however, Digg will be launching something truly amazing in July. After being a web application designer for more than eleven years I almost became verklempt watching the latest version of DiggNation. The new features show incoming links in real time, but unlike Digg Spy the incoming posts and comments are shown on a real time visualization map. You can use a slider to show more or less content per page, and in one view real time diggs come in an cluster around a post. This is not only impressive, but possible revolutionary. Thanks to Digg and stamen design for producing such a great new visualization model!

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Also see: Emily’s most excellent blog post about this subject Visualization and Discovery

Also see: Stamen Design

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Digg BigSpy – A New Way To Visualize Digg

Digg To Launch New Content Visualization Model in July 2006