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August 6, 2004
del.icio.us mind map
Posted by Clay Shirky
An app to take your del.icio.us tags and turn them into a mindmap:
You can see the mind map of my recent links here: delicious_mind/ (note: loads Java applet and takes a little while). The online version lets you fold and unfold categories; click on or near the little red arrow to follow the named link; click on the node to fold and unfold it. Using the Freemind application, you can add icons (I’ve tweaked the mind map file with a single icon, called the “neato” icon, on the python category), color and resize nodes and edges, do all kinds of things to organize , link, and accentuate the various items in your mind map.
It’s not social software yet, as it does tags-by-user, but not yet users-by-tag or tags-by-user-group, but its more informative than the for-decoration-only extisp.icio.us, and the group-oriented updates seem both obvious and easy. Slowly, slowly we’re getting the visual tools needed to characterize groups…
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1. Ian on August 7, 2004 8:29 AM writes...
You're right! I just threw it together, but I should do graphs of other users who links to yer faves (with del.icio.us/url) rather than just trees of your own links.
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