We have added a background image in this Graph. In the Show Graph Block you can find the Background Image field. You only have to write the URL to an image and then you got it. The graph’s source comes from a programame.net’s RSS, a site with a system similar to meneame but adressed to developers (in spanish )

Click on the image below to execute the macro

In the same way as the “meneame graph” that has been already published, now we suggest you a new graph from Dzone.com. Just by clicking on the node label, you can obtain full information about the elements, and also a thumbnail image from the realated web.

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Tagged collections are best handled as graphs, but digg is different. It has exclusive categories. All articles are stored in a two-level tree. First you have the main categories, then the subcategories and finally the articles. So we have thought that the best tool we have to handle all this tagged collections is our tree map. Now, a new public Macro is available for you to browse digg published news as a tree map. Click on the image below.

Remember to go down the tree with the arrows or by clicking on the boxes.

Unfortunately, digg rss feed only gives the subcategory for each item. In order to classify them, using the main categories, we have made an external spreadsheet with a list of the items, and we have added the relationships with the different subcategories.

You can have a look at the spreadsheet clicking here, then you will be able to verify that it can also be used to assign colors to the different boxes. To execute the Macro we just do a “join” operation with the rss feed to expand the information for each item.

Enjoy it!

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We have already seen listings and treemaps at Macro.Scopia. But now It allows you to plot the data as a graph, with nodes showing elements and arcs showing relationships. It could be very useful to plot tagged elements, like articles from a blog or any other dinamic webs.

The purpose of this new Macro view is to show a few connected elements at the beggining, and then let you navigate by clicking on the nodes you are interested in. Full information about the elements can be seen just by clicking on the label of the nodes.

In order to show you the capabilities of this Macro, we have made a view of the current news posted at http://meneame.net, an important Spanish news site. We get the information from the rss feed and then visualize it, both articles and categories (tags), as nodes. Therefore, the arched lines between them show how they are related with each other.

Click on the image to execute the Macro.

Notice the list at the left top side of the view. Seldom, one of these graphs will be fully connected. Instead you will get a graph with a some few islands of connected nodes. To switch between them, just click on the elements of this list. Of course, we have a Macro behind that you can see clicking here.

The tutorial about this new features is still in progress. Coming soon for you to build your own graphs.

In the first version this block was pure “data input block”. Now you can use it in the same way, but there is a new option to connect it to an imput list.

The first row in the list must be the name of the column, likewise this will be the name of the field that you must write in the RSS block setup or configuration panel. You can also add extra properties to each field items by adding another column to the RSS list.
You can edit or execute a sample with 30 feeds.

Simple idea: Twitter es una comunidad de amigos y extraños -según reza la ayuda- que intercambian instantes de su vida. ¿Qué estás haciendo ahora? Pasamos de la reflexión -herramientas blogging- a la instantánea del pensamiento -twitter-. De esta forma, y en la medida que la gente es sincera y añade sus acciones inmediatas, los más curiosos pueden ir trabando amistades, ya no por afinidades o empatías artísticas, culturales o de intereses personales, sino por compartir momentos tan anodinos que pueden durar segundos o minutos

Por supuesto, el incrustable:

It’s more important than ever that we value the promise of technology, seriously understand how popular tools work, and willingly evolve education to take advantage of students’ comfort with technology. Alan Graham

El lema, por su simpleza, me gusta. Detrás de ella se esconde el -quizá- éxito popular de la mayoría de servicios englobados bajo el cajón de sastre de la web 2.0. Un éxito incrementado por un uso colectivo y transparente del servicio que, finalmente, se adhiere al imaginario como parte natural de nuestras vidas. La importancia y éxito de la tecnología o, mejor dicho, el servicio de estas tecnologías web partirá de una idea simple, tanto que, finalmente, su uso diario forme parte de la rutina del usuario.

Referencias:
Overheard in the pizzeria: Pre-adolescent business
A startup is just an idea away

El baile ha comenzado…

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