Nov. 10, 2006: Wired Blogs has an interesting note from Kevin Rose's talk at the Web 2.0 Conference in San Francisco today:
"Rumsfeld's resignation broke an internal record for the time it takes a story to go from being submitted to landing on the home page. It took about 3 minutes for users to digg the story enough for it to make it to the front door. Google News had it 20 minutes later. Lesson: 'People can break news faster than machines.'
"33% of the diggs for the Rumsfeld story happened when people saw the headline within Digg's Swarm and Stack tools."
For more about Stamen's work with Digg on Swarm and Stack, take a look here.
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Digg.com has become one of the most-visited sites on the internet. The site's ever-changing content, all submitted by members, provides a vivid window onto what's interesting online, right now.
Digg moves very quickly, and has a great many stories submitted every day, so good material can sometimes fly by before you even know it. Stamen's live interactive visualizations at labs.digg.com look beneath the surface of this active community's activities, and allow for a broader (and deeper) view of Digg.
Digg Swarm
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"Working with the Stamen guys was like having our own site design SWAT team. They came into a tough, time-critical situation with feet on the ground and were able to parse through the desires of multiple stakeholders and iterative feedback to help us build an incredibly beautiful site. They surpassed all expectations in terms of professionalism, technical skill, and lovely, functional design chops. We look forward to working with them again soon!"
—Kakul Srivastava, Senior Product Manager, Yahoo!
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“Who knew the pleasures of 21st-century techno-surveillance could be so purely, so innocently aesthetic?”
—Julian Dibbell, Village Voice
“This is stunning work.”
—David Pescovitz, boingboing.net
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Splatter #1
Play with Splatter
Download Splatter (230K archive file with Flash source and license)
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