In-Browser Realtime Visualisation of Website Traffic

News Type: Event — Seeded on Sun Jul 30, 2006 12:59 PM EDT

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Seeded by Walter Rafelsberger

Today we released preview videos of RhNav - Rhizome Navigation, a software which provides interfaces based on user behaviour analysis. It is also able to visualise current website traffic in realtime as a graph. It works both as a browser-plugin and as a stand alone application.

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What's this?

Who's leading the conversation?

This visualization below allows you to see the impact that each user has on the current conversation. The top row contains the group of users who have had the most impact, the 2nd row the group of users who have had the 2nd most impact (et cetera). Users with similar impact are grouped together, and the average score of the group is shown to the left of the group. The author of the article is also shown on the left, in their corresponding group. Each user's score is based on the number of comments the user has made plus the number of votes their comments have received. The scores are calculated relative one another, so while their absolute value is not particularly important, their relative difference does indicate a larger difference in impact on the conversation.

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Daniel G. L. S.

so is everyone copying Digg Labs, , now or vice versa?

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#1 - Sun Jul 30, 2006 9:30 PM EDT

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Walter Rafelsberger

I don't think it's that easy to say. In my opinion we are just (again) at a point in time where there are several people or groups striving for new inventions in the same direction. At the moment we are at the edge of data visualisation becoming mainstream. These kinds of visualisations are nothing too new in the scientific or other specialized fields, but now we are in a situation (mainly because technology and standardization improve) where it becomes interesting for the average user.

I would not say this is about copying or ripping someone's idea. In school we were encouraged to believe that this or that person invented electricity or someone did the first flight, they wanted us to believe in geniuses and masterminds. This leads us to the now more than ever current ongoing debate about authorship (patents etc.).

I think this has a more social component, even if it seems there are several groups working on the same thing independently. I'm working/researching on RhNav - Rhizome Navigation for about three years now. Of course I watch what others do and get inspired and hope that others do so too. That said, we all know that of course there happens a lot of ripping. As sad as it is, but it seems that in the end it's all about the money and the idealists die trying. That's how it works in general, not only in some niche infoviz business.

For further info on my approach I would recommend reading Gilles Deleuze's and Felix Guattari's A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia . Not so related to infoviz but to society in general I came upon Alexander Kluge's The Devil's Blind Spot: Tales from the New Century which I think is also a must.

Kind regards,
Walter

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1 vote

#1.1 - Mon Jul 31, 2006 4:20 AM EDT

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