Erneut darüber gestolpert bei KarmaKonsum, erstellt mir Wordle.

Und da ich gerade keien Lust auf Screenshots habe, schnell mal selber gucken und basteln...

It's not actually a search engine. They use search results from different sources and present the results in different views. It's very simple!

1. Search for keyword
2. Select the view
3. See the results

In contrast to Google & Yahoo, this site will display the results in multiple formats. At the moment there are 18 different views. Few of them are:

Celebrity Photo View
Web Screenshot View (Good for web designer & graphic designer)
Simple text view (same as Google/Yahoo but with site snap on mouse over)
Power Grid View
Google timeline view (the date/time the article/site was published/modified)
Video x3 view (videos from YouTube, blinkx and Veoh along with tagging)
Site information view (Good for search engine optimization & statistics)
Photo tag cloud (one of my favorite: tag cloud in 3D environment)
Photo view (photos from Flickr, Smugmug)
4 Sources views (Yahoo, Google, Ask, MSN)
Viewzi news view (News sources: CNN, The New York Times, REUTERS, USA Today, Yahoo)
Weather view (Results from: Yahoo News, weather.com, AccuWeather.com, Sunlight Labs)
Amazon book view
Everyday shopping view (Results from: eBay, Target, amazon.com, WalMart)
Album view
Recipe view (Results from: Simple Recipes, 101 Cookbooks, myrecepies, Epicurious)
Song view (You can listen to the audio/songs as well)
TechChrunch view

The web site use Flash so make sure you have Flash installed on your machine.

I believe this is another revolution as the future of the web will be all about views and how you present the information.

While we wait for the pundit's reaction, it's always fun to have a look through a speech to see what was siad, what was repeated, and on that basis wonder what we are expected to take away from Cameron's conference speech this afternoon. The bigger the word, the more popular in the speech it was. You can click through to Wordle for the full sized version.

Personally I thought this was a great speech - there was no yaa-boo politics but the digs at the Labour party were in place, there was a humble Cameron on display, but a certain righteous anger. Being Scottish the invocation of Thatcher will have not made Scotland an easier place to campaign (fact of life) but it could go down very well in England. That remains to be seen.

As to a lack of policies, well part of me thinks the strategy to see and discuss these is not 18 months before a General Election - after all look at the policies announced last year and where they ended up, so I'm happy with hearing about the moral core and broad strokes of the party, as opposed to fine nitty-gritty detail that can easily gum up the "sound bite debates" that would occur round them in the media.

It is really neat to see the central theme to a web page using the words on the page. Here is mine:

(click the thumbnail image to view a larger version)

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Provalo.

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So Jay's suggested there are 200 words that can improve your writing. Given that he's written most of this blog to date, I thought I'd work out exactly what words he's been using. And thanks to this clever little app at Wordle you can create a pretty little word cloud from the content within this blog (or indeed any other you choose). You can even paste a passage of copy into it and see it visually. Beware... it's addictive.

What's your blog saying?

(HT: Mike Fast)

Interessantes und Erstaunliches gab es direkt am Anfang des Vortrages von Christian Kuhna von der Adidas Group zu hören – er erzählte, dass es bis vor wenigen Monaten keine interne Kommunikation im Unternehmen gab. Na, man kann also auch ohne erfolgreich sein – noch erfolgreicher aber sicher mit!

Das neue Adidas Intranet stützt sich auf drei Säulen:

• Eine personalisierte Umgebung (relevanten News, individualisierte Gestaltung, Links, Widgets...)
• Community Tools (Blog, Chat, IM, Diskussions-Foren...)
• Business Tools (Wissens- und Ideenmanagement, Collaboration-Tools...)

Und über alle drei Bereiche "schwebt" immer der Blick auf den Workspace der Zukunft - also mobile Lösungen, Video- und Audiostreaming, VoIP etc. Der Arbeitsplatz ändert sich genau wie die Rahmenbedingungen, er ist flexibel, ortsunabhängig und kommunikativ.

Zur Zeit ist das Intranet von Adidas mehr 0,75 als 2.0. Es existieren einzelne Insellösungen ohne einheitliches CI die auf unterschiedlichste Weise verbunden sind. Es wird daran gearbeitet, alle Einzelteile "einzufangen",  zu integrieren und in einen einheitlichen, komfortablen Rahmen zu bringen.

Die bekannte Web Cloud von Markus Angermeier zum Web 2.0 hat Adidas dazu animiert, eine Cloud für den "Workspace of the Future" zu erstellt. Herausgekommen ist ein sicherlich interessantes Tool, das auch andere Unternehmen bei der Entwicklung eines Intranet 2.0 unterstützen kann:

Desweiteren hat Christian Kuhna das neue Mitarbeitermagazin vorgestellt, welches im Intranet veröffentlicht wird, in Teilen aber auch als Printversion (für die Mitarbeiter, die keinen Intranetzugang haben oder diese „neuen“ Entwicklungen nicht wünschen) herausgegeben wird. Das Magazin ist multimedial und integriert Spiele, Videos und Cards. Die Videos werden auf einen separaten Adidas Account bei Youtube geladen und auf der Video Wall des Online-Magazins eingebaut.
Die einzelnen Artikel des Magazins können bewertet und kommentiert werden – eine umfassende Möglichkeit für die Mitarbeiter zu partizipieren.

Weblogs, Wikis und Foren wird es im Community Teil des Intranets geben. Mit „Ask the management“ ist ein direkter Kontakt der Mitarbeiter zur Führungsebene geplant. Beantwortet werden müssen diese Anfragen dann innerhalb von 24 Stunden - würde mich mal interessieren, ob das klappt.

Bei der Strukturierung und dem Design der Features hat sich Adidas an bekannte Web2.0 Formaten orientiert, weil der Umgang mit diesen den Mitarbeiter bekannt ist. Beispielsweise wird es im persönlichen Profil der Mitarbeiter ein Feld geben, welches die Bewegungen im eigenen Netzwerk anzeigt, eine persönliche Tag Cloud, eigene Links, Fotos, Videos etc. etc. etc. Wer möchte, kann sich auch mit den von ihm genutzten externen Netzwerken (Xing, Facebook...) verlinken. Selbstverständlich kann jeder Mitarbeiter entscheiden, wie sehr er seine privaten und beruflichen Netzwerke verbindet.

Die Konzeptionsphase für diese (selbstverständlich mehrsprachige) Lösung hat Adidas ca. 6 Monate beschäftigt.

Ziel: Die Nutzung des Intranet muss so einfach sein wie die Nutzung von Word und Outlook.

The reason issue number 2 is so important is based on that very word "important".  When consumers look for content they are looking for content that addresses particular importance to a few key subjects.  The "Glutton Tag Cloud" on the page sits there to say that everything in this page is important.  The result of that will be that nothing will be considered important.  So when nothing becomes important the ability to rank relevance of the content based on the important topics goes away.  Once that happens The tag cloud will go away and another method of identifying importance or subject matter of content will show up to be exploited I guess.

I would have to think that if your content was that interesting it would not need the Glutton Tag Clouds to get it noticed.  People would find it easily using the system that has been defined.  Don't go from a content creator to an SEO optimized relayer of garbage.  Keep it real and keep it fresh please.

Learning is the top word in my cloud, followed by connectivism. Think, information, and networks are all prominent. Growing and grow are both more prominent than build--an interesting observation after my post about whether learning grows or is built.

Although Michele's task was originally about personal branding, I was hoping to get a better grasp of the discussions about learning and our metaphors for it. Sometimes I just need to look at it a different way to start making the connections and seeing the patterns.

Here's a different version of the tag cloud, this time with just my post on learning and the comments (all 12 of them, at current count):

The discussion has been great, but I need some more time to process it all and figure out where I want to go next with these ideas. I'm not used to such deep philosophical discussions.

Using this great site called wordle you can create art from your tags. This is my latest offering and if you look to your right you will see another.

I need some fillings. This is pencilled in for later this month. I also need one of my wisdom teeth extracted. This promises to be a whole lot of no fun, since it has to be done in a hospital. On the other hand, they'll probably give me painkillers, which'll be nice. And after that my teeth should be all fixed up.

I've been working on random programming stuff today. Here's a tag-cloud that I made for the book Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman:

A tag cloud or word cloud (or weighted list in visual design) is a visual depiction of user-generated tags, or simply the word content of a site, used typically to describe the content of web sites. Tags are usually single words and are typically listed alphabetically, and the importance of a tag is shown with font size or color. Thus both finding a tag by alphabet and by popularity is possible. The tags are usually hyperlinks that lead to a collection of items that are associated with a tag. (link)

Now, the tag cloud is something that I don't really use, considering that I don't really have enough posts to generate any sort of meaningful cloud. Also, not to mention that tag clouds are one of these "Web 2.0" things, which I dislike for the name. Obviously, the irony is not lost that the syndication of this blog is via RSS, which is very "Web 2.0". But provided I don't have to use that phrase more than necessary, that'll be fine by me.

Now, I came across two tag clouds today which I think would look rather interesting if you put them side by side.

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="466" caption="A visual represenation of the most used words in McCain's acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention."][/caption]
Another small bit of information that's slipped into these by the BBC, is the speech length, and the word count. Apparently, Obama speaks quicker. Fancy that.

Compare tag clouds of words used in acceptance speeches: McCain at #RNC08 http://twurl.nl/lf8v6g and Obama at #DNC08 http://twurl.nl/oylu45

just had to try one with Governor Sarah Palin's acceptance speech as well...

http://www.mentalklinik.com/

http://www.phonecasting.com/podcasts/TagCloud.aspx