Findory has a new feature called “Neighbors” which attempts to visually represent a particular news site or blog’s closely related web brethren. Here’s a screen shot of this blog’s neighbors:
Fascinating. And everybody is doing it. Does this type of visual representation have a name?
I think the adopted name is zeigeist, but I’m not sure…
Posted by Lee on 2 February 2005 @ 2pm
I think the name is “weighted list”. First spotted on Svn :
http://www.37signals.com/svn/archives/000937.php
Posted by Francois on 3 February 2005 @ 6am
Weighted list, that’s it. It would appear Jim Flanagan [http://jimfl.tensegrity.net] is given credit for the original implementation. Thanks.
Posted by Carrick on 3 February 2005 @ 8am
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