It begins...

As you might have inferred from recent posts, I am a certified tag-junkie, a del.icio.us evangelist if you will. In this post I briefly talked about the imminent rise of java and flash interfaces to all that yummy tagged data out there.

Check this out:

Neato java interface!

Looking on del.icio.us for tags del.icio.us+flash combined yields one link to a nonexisting webpage in a subdirectory called 'prototype', but del.icio.us+java yields decent amounts of results. Apparently java developers 'get it' while flash interface designers are still navelgazing ;)

BTW, following the links on the page containing the applet led me to this cool audioscrobbler-based applet that visualises artists and band relations (according to audioscrobbler users) in more or less the same way.

Let mash all these datasets (del.icio.us, flickr, wikipedia, technorati, audioscrobbler and god knows what else) together in a great inforgy!

UPDATE: also of interest is the Technorati URL graph, and the people of TouchGraph (souceforge link) are doing cool stuff with visual interfaces as well. Check out the google browser while you're at it. Apparently some of this stuff was also linked up at boingboing, must've been sleeping at the wheel or something.

UPDATE2: And the graphing of del.icio.us users by their inbox subscription list. yay!

UPDATE3: The author of several of the funky applets I just talked about was kind enough to leave a comment pointing to Flitter, which mixes Audioscrobbler, Flickr, del.icio.us and Amazon data based on band/artist of book author names. That's pretty cool!
Man, I wish I didn't suck at Macromedia Flash so bad; this would be great with a MusicPlasma-like interface...

UPDATE4: Allright, wrong dataset, right interface! This funky app made in flash allows you to explore the social relationships inside flickr.com. It makes use of the classic attraction-repulsion algorithm for graphs. Compare it with the firefox-crashing nontheless cool java app (I dunno, java crashes my firefox on a regular basis) and I think you'll find as I did that flash responds much quicker.

Tagged java, interface, del.icio.us, tags