delicious soup
delicious soup is a visualisation tool for del.icio.us…I really had an easy and fun time using this tool.
Similar to a tag cloud but way more visual and juicy, but it goes a step further by allowing you to see the relationship between your tags in another perspective…login and try it.
First you will see a page full of pink jelly bubbles of varying sizes, these are your tags.
The bottom of the box labels the number of tags and the number of posts for your account.
If you hover on a bubble (tag), all the related bubbles (tags) will illuminate, and unrelated bubbles (tags) will disappear
…the bottom of the box will label how many times you have used the tag, the number of related tags, and since ? posts (not sure what this means).
If you click on a bubble (tag) this is when the magic happens, all the unrelated tags disappear, and the related tags circle around the clicked tag (which sits in the middle)…the distance of the related tags indicates the closeness (common bookmarks) of the relationship.
…the bottom of the box adds one more note, in that is tells it has ? number of relationships with a distinct tag (how many times they have been used together in bookmarking an item)
…similarly you can hover over any of the related tags and the label in the box will tell you the number of bookmarks it has in common with the tag in the centre.
The bottom left of the box has some pop-ups that allow you to add colour, label the bubbles with your tag names (this really helps), and if you want to connect the bubbles with lines.
I think this is a very simple and effective tool…informative to see the relationship of the tags I apply to the same bookmarks…good way to visualise your account in order to clean it up, or just to see your interests in another perspective (you can absorb and interpret your tag set in ways you wouldn’t otherwise…this makes it unique and powerful, and an essential for social analysis, well tag analysis anyway)
…oh, and it’s fun to use!
Just had a thought, if you bookmark all your blog posts with a del.icio.us account, kind of a replica of your blog (I do this in order to have title index of my blog), then goto delicious soup…you can view the relationship between your blog categories, and from this see what you blog about the most, least…and basically all the relationships between the different things you blog about.
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