Wanna see a future of the web? Check out this ‘folksonomy’ from the BBC (well, it isn’t really a folksonomy because they made it). It’s from the “In our Time” history program.
It is a ‘tag cloud’ that you can navigate through and although it doesn’t really work that effectively; I think that they are onto something and it is the start of something very interesting (link)
Also check out this subject cloud from Flinders University’s Library in South Australia…It’s wild..woo…hooo (link)
Andrew Garton said,
November 20, 2006 @ 11:50 pm
i saw a presentation of a 3d navigational tool much like this quite a number of years ago. it was a lot more effective. it was an MIT project that david cox had visited during his first visit there.
there were two forms of content being used, the end result being a cube like space that one could explore through horizontal and vertical axis, including forward and back motion.
content used for the trial included 1) stock market data, and 2) common words, terms and phrases appearing the entire works of shakespeare.
it was so much more impressive than what the BBC have done with a flash engine… there is no possibility of going “back” once one has gone forward. perhaps they have taken the weasel term “going forward” to an extreme, meaning that there is no going back once we’re on the forward trajectory…
-ag.