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Visualizing Stories On Current Events With Newsmap
hrbrmstr writes "Marcos Weskamp and Dan Albritton have created Newsmap, an extremely cool way of visualizing news stories. The site takes the aggregated content from Google News (globally) and maps it out into a visual space. That way, you get an immediate feel for news patterns (what the media in any particular region is gravitating to) - there's quite a bit of potential here."
Get the cache!
You say things that offend me and I can deal with it. Can you?
This one isn't a hoax. This actually looks like a cool and potentially useful product.
maybe something like this blog treemap, or this one that represents file sizes
If anyone wants a screenshot of what the page looked like before its hosting server melted through the floor, here you go.
It's a Bagel.
> they seem to have removed the ability to turn them off now.
Windows: "Start | Setttings | Taskbar and start menu" has a checkbox (different locations I think for 2000 and XP/2003) to disable personalized menus. If you use XP's Luna theme (why?), the "All Programs" flyout is un-personalized.
Office (2000, XP, 2003): right click on the main toolbar, Customize, Options tab, uncheck "Menus show most recently used commands first".
Go somewhere random
The tool is very similar in concept to Map of the Market, found on smart money's site. It visually displays stocks positioned by market segment and sized by capitalization. It's very handy for distinguishing overall stock market trends.
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