New statistical eye candy: Diggspose
I'm a sucker for data visualizations. I waxed poetic about Swivel, the site that's attempting to make data charts accessible and useful, and the things that are coming out of Digg's labs from Stamen Design continue to innovate and change the way users can interact with social sites.
This afternoon I've been glued to "Diggspose" , a mashup made in Adobe Flash that combines Snap.com's preview shots of Web pages with popular and upcoming stories on Digg.com. The result is a moving picture show of story thumbnails you can click on and manipulate. The moniker Diggspose is a nod to Mac OS X's Expose feature, which tiles thumbnails of active desktop windows--an effect that has been emulated in Diggspose with three quick cascading presets. Diggspose also pulls double duty as an extension of Diggspy, Digg's live feed of newly submitted stories. Using Diggspose, you can now watch this stream with thumbnails in real time, using a neat carousel effect.
The service is hosted by Yourminis, the single-page aggregation service. Expect several other neat and new visualizations for the popular user-generated site beginning on Thursday, when Digg unveils the top 10 finalists for its API visualization contest.
[via Digg]
Digg's stories show up as visual thumbnails. When you see one you're interested in, you can click it to go directly to the story, or hold control and click to go to its page on Digg.
(Credit: CNET Networks)
Josh Lowensohn is an associate editor for Webware.com, CNET's blog about cool and otherwise useful Web applications and services. If you've found a site you'd like profiled, shoot him an e-mail. E-mail Josh.
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Josh - one correction. It looks like you mention that this is available at Diggexpose.com - that's looks to be a parked domain and this application does not exist there. Thanks for the review...
Way cool coverage of an equally cool mashup. I wanted to give props to Hart @ Goowy for taking the time to make this and reach out to us at Snap about it. Seems it got some great coverage and DIGGs and we love stuff like this for brand awareness for Snap, not to mention hightling the cool things people have done with our products.
Also, wanted to point out that it would be cool to have Snap Shots enabled on your Webware blog so people could see all the links you point them too! I think it would be very useful.
Thanks again,
Jason Fields
Product Evangelist, Emerging Technology
www.Snap.com