Mitch did notice my MyDensity post
My prediction was correct - Mitch did notice my posting about MyDensity. Check out his recent RafcliffBlog post entitled Bolstering our maps.
So, how has my MyDensity graph changed? Let’s take a look:
The results are quite different than the results from a few days ago. Last time it only returned a few sites that linked to me.
The results are different than what I expected. It just seems to be a graph of the sites I link to. I was hoping to see new sites (like his) that had linked to me since I posted about MyDensity.
So I became bored and decided to use the Fengshuinate box, which I had not noticed last time. I had no idea what it did, but here is the results:
According to his 1-minute-guide:
use the Fengshuinate box to see the map of how all the sites are interconnected, which rearranges the map to show the most central sites in the network. Unchecking Fengshuinate will freeze the map in its new arrangement; the longer you leave Fengshuinate checked, the more dispersed the map will become.
It is kinda cool, but each iteration takes a while and Java visuals are hurting. The applet also consistently crashed my Opera 7.54, but Opera 8 seems fine.
Why I blog this? It relates to my previous post about MyDensity.
March 26th, 2005 at 5:51pm
Java is a great tool for addressing a lot of OS/browser combinations, but it is just one choice and has its resource use problems, which we’re working to optimize. The problem is that one map can have thousands of nodes and if Java is running against all that data while sharing RAM with other apps it slows WAY down.
So, here’s the question for you as an avid user: Would you want to watch the fengshuinator work (some folks do) or would you want to get a fengshuinated map downloaded separately? The latter would be faster, but the image may be less navigable.
The other question: Out of curiousity, what OS and browser are you running, and with how much RAM?
March 27th, 2005 at 6:05am
This was in WinXP. 512MB RAM. Browsers were Opera 7.54 (consistent crash) and Opera 8 beta (seemed to work fine, as long as 7.54 was not running).
I typically have 5-20 tabs open in one or both versions of Opera (for example, right now I have Opera 8 beta running with 10 tabs, which uses 60MB of memory.)
I think I remember accessing it in Linux with Opera7.54 - If I remember correctly it crashed.
See today’s post about Texon’s Tree applet for an example of the kind of visuals that can come out of Java.