Interesting graph from Dr. Dobbs on the challenge many Web 2.0 websites face; crossing the chasm. Early adopters and innovators may jump aboard your baby but that doesn’t mean you’ll manage to cross over to the mainstream.
Is a forced directed graph a good way of navigating a tag collection? You could click on tags and see related tags span out from them. Closely related tags would be clumped closer together with stronger lines connecting them. Much like words are displayed in Visual Wordnet.
Websites As Graphs is an interesting little bit of Java code which visually renders the structure of a website. It shows you your site’s links, divs, tables, images and other tags in a free-tree like structure.
At first it is just pretty but after some thought it proves to be useful too. For instance my site above shows a big cluster of gray and blue which correlates to the category/tag links in my sidebar. You can use this visual rendering to cut down on the complexity of your HTML structure.
Check out the websitesasgraphs tag on Flickr for many more examples.
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