You may have noticed that Echo Generation has been fairly quiet recently. In my last post, I talked about my new employer, Suited Media Inc, but I have yet to blog about what exactly I have been working on.

So, what have I been doing? I have been very busy developing a new social networking site called Pokerspace.

Pokerspace is currently in its final stages of development for a demo release. If you would like to be one of the first few people to try out the site and help us improve it, you can submit your name and email address at Pokerspace.com.

We also recently launched the Pokerspace Development Blog, where you can stay up to date on the most recent Pokerspace development news.

That is all I have time to blog about for now, but as always, stay tuned to my blog for updates.

My previous post was written the typical way, using the WordPress interface.

For this post, I have bypassed the WordPress interface completely. It only took me a few seconds to write up this post using our new Perspectives QuickPost tool. I had to find a copy of xmlrpc.php for old (1.2) WordPress install, but that proved quite easy.

I have also added a Technorati Perspective with a couple of relevant tags to this post. Cool.

Anyone can use this tool now, for free. Click here to sign up for Perspectives.

Why I blog this? This is a first for me - a blog posting on my own blog using a blog tool that I helped create. I am sure you can understand why there is a smile on my face today.

iUpload Perspectives Applied (what’s this):

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Here is an example of another java graph visualization, Tree by Texon. Quite pretty. Looks like they are using Processing for the smooth visuals.

tree accesses the source code of a webdomain through it’s url and transforms the syntactic structure of the website into a tree structure represented by an image. this image illustrates a tree with trunk, branches and ramifications. first each tree is initialized, than all html links are detected, chronologically saved and finally displayed.

the first tree corresponds to the domain; according to the syntax of the website each further tree that builds up represents a subpage including all existing elements. the color of these trees reflects the color values of the domain and its subpages.

The image below is the tree for this blog.

And this is the forest that appears after leaving it on long enough. (I am one of the trees on the right side)

The forest is built in real-time without any noticable refresh. Looks like an interesting art project, but there is no interactivity from what I can tell.

Why I blog this? Mark added a comment to my previous post about his visualization tool, MyDensity. I think he will enjoy the link - it seems to be fairly good example of a similar Java visualization. And to answer your question: I want it to be real-time, interactive, and visually pleasing. Basically, let me hunt with ease through the mass of data. And find subtle ways to give me more information on that data, such as using different colours, sizes, etc. But keep it simple :)

via Josh Robin via Protein

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.