New Visualizations

Designer Manuel Lima's Visual Complexity site points to numerous related books available through his Amazon aStore. Thanks for pointers to several of the pages below.

Ink Trails by Robert Hodkin. Thanks to Future Feeder for the pointer.

The 32nd America's Cup Circling Galaxy display. Thanks to Great Map for the pointer.

Chris Harrison's projects, including the Clusterball visualization of the three levels of of wikipedia.

Paul Dunn's Visuwords, an online graphical dictionary.

Lee Byron's Lisening History posters from Last.fm software.

Finally, Walk2Web creates a visualization of your own web activity. (An example of an opening page to begin visualizing your history, below)

Advertising and Social Networking Sites

According to TechDirt, it's common for companies to not know each and every place online where their advertisements appear. Advertisers are being to notice that their ads sometimes appear on profile pages for organizations or initiatives they oppose, and some are beginning to withdraw from sites featuring user-generated content.
This has not stopped the big media companies from buying up smaller social networking sites, according to Giga Om. He says that "This is a strategy not without risk. Big media companies have to leave the acquired, and their communities, alone."

Stumble Upon is an interesting take on social networking. Joshua Porter of Bokardo looks at Del.icio.us and feature creep in social web applications.

Web 2.0 and Static/Live Web

From Bruce Sterling at Wired's Beyond the Beyond points to a new Global Neighborhoods interview with Doc Searles, who says

Anyway, I'm a voice in the Web 2.0/social media wilderness about the Live/Static Web distinction, but I'll keep yelling.... What you find on Blogsearch and Technorati is literally "too new for Google." Meaning: too current, too *live*.

In the original website version of Cluetrain, Chris Locke wrote, "we are not seats or eyeballs or end users or consumers and our reach exceeds your grasp. deal with it.