Announcing Del.icio.us Network Explorer

Explore network relationships from your favourite social bookmarking service.

The del.icio.us network explorer is a visual interface to explore the relationship between delicious users. It’s an mashup of del.icio.us’ network data and graph visualization in processing as seen before at aharefs html visualizer.

Del.icio.us is one of the most famous web 2.0 applications. It keeps your bookmarks on the web and lets you share them with your friends and discover new things.

In August the del.icio.us crew added a new feature: Network Bagdes allow users to display information about their network on their own website outside del.icio.us. On the announcement page I found JavaScript inclusions to JSON-feeds with detailed information about a users network. This information available for each user is the data-base for the network relation.

The nework explorer uses a force directed graphs visualization, which is based on the particle system form the traer.physics library for processing. Nodes repel like magnets. The egdes between the nodes act like springs. New nodes start from a random position and run to convergence.

Enough the words, explore your relations with the del.icio.us network explorer.

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