Real Time Visualizations Of Conversations
In my role at Intel, I am presented with some pretty unique digital marketing opportunities. One of my favorite was working with the team over at Digg on creating a new visualization in their Digg Labs environment – called Digg Arc. This was a real-time visualization of the top content being ‘Dugg’ on the main Digg site. It’s an interesting way to digest content and show the threading of how it’s rising in relevancy as your watching the infograph expand, shift, and change.
It appears that our work together was a bit ahead of it’s time (that was back in 2007) when compared to some of the visualizations that are being released today around Twitter. Yesterday, in my media perusal over a quick lunch, I came across a pretty cool visualization tool that shows the conversation in real time on Twitter. It’s called ‘Revisit‘ and it shows the ‘conversational threads between Twitter users over time‘. Pretty interesting to follow – especially showing the extension of the conversation through @ replies and retweets. One could waste, ahem ‘spend’, a lot of time on this site watching the Twitter-verse play out…
