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tag-cloudDisplays a tag cloud that represents what you read.

A tag cloud is a nice way to visualize something by displaying keywords. The cool thing is that each word size is proportional to its importance. In this experiment, we wanted to see how we could generate a tag cloud from a Netvibes page. The Tag Cloud project analyzes your page and display corresponding keywords. The more a keyword is repeated, the bigger. At a glance, you can see what are the topics you’re interested in.

Knowing what’s in your page is quite interesting per se, but we wanted to do a bit more: if you click on a keyword, you’ll get recommendations for new widgets, straight from our Ecosystem.

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Posted on Thursday, April 9th, 2009 at 11:52 am

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Mathieu W. April 15th, 2009 at 8:23 pm

Hey I was so glad to see this feature arrive !

…but I’m a little disappointed, the cloud was not as I imagined it. I think it would be great if the tags were taken from news I have been reading. It could be a great summary of what I’ve been reading recently, making a tag bigger when it’s recent etc.

Good job though, a tag cloud would be a very nice feature for netvibes, making it possible to have some kind of semantic networking !

dfwtexn April 15th, 2009 at 8:33 pm

I love it.

Joe April 16th, 2009 at 5:17 am

I’d like to add the tag cloud to my private/public pages. Is it available as an RSS feed?

Insert Coin April 16th, 2009 at 7:57 am

Nice idea!

Amok April 16th, 2009 at 7:10 pm

Great idea!

Thomas April 16th, 2009 at 7:18 pm

L’idée est vraiment intéressante ! Cependant je m’attendais à quelque chose d’un peu plus graphique quant au fameux nuage…

Une idée m’est venue en passant : pourquoi ne pas se servir des mots-clés pour proposer des liens vers des sites aléatoires susceptibles de graviter dans les mêmes champs disciplinaire ?

Continuez à expérimenter toutes sortes de choses, c’est toujours plaisant de voir que certaines personnes ont encore des idées neuves… !

scalblog April 16th, 2009 at 8:06 pm

I agree with Thomas.
I find the results are a little bit sad to see and it doesn t look like a cloud but three ligns… But the idea is very interesting.

k_nyc April 17th, 2009 at 3:30 am

A really great idea, but as already mentioned, would love for it to look more like an actual cloud, not just lines of words. But truly appreciate your efforts so far.

StevenMB April 17th, 2009 at 4:01 am

Would like to see this a little more shapely than three long lines. make it smaller, tighter… also, difficult to tell but is this a cloud of all my netvibes tags? for one tab? hard to tell… seems not quite in synch with what I actually read…. but keep at it… great idea.

Edouard April 17th, 2009 at 8:46 am

Really good, but I would advise to filter out obvious keywords such as “blog”, “news”, “web”, …

FloreMarie April 17th, 2009 at 8:48 am

Good job!

Hotlate April 17th, 2009 at 9:46 am

Bonne démarche, très bonne idée (attendue par ailleurs) mais malheureusement le nuage n’est pas graphiquement satisfaisant et suffisamment lisible pour le moment.

Je vous propose quelques suggestions :
- gestion de ses préférences, exemple : possibilité d’afficher uniquement les 30 ou 20 mots les plus courants /
- pouvoir les organiser par ordre alphabétique tout en conservant la taille de la police selon sa popularité /
- pouvoir partager avec ses contacts ce qui concerne un mot clé particulier /
- pouvoir bénéficier d’un nuage pour chaque onglet

Continuez à nous proposer des innovations, merci pour ces nouveautés !

James April 17th, 2009 at 10:29 am

I agree with the first comment. If the RSS was pulled from the content it would provide a much better cloud. I also thought it would be available in a nice tidy widget. Its a great idea if refined a little.

raphaëlle April 17th, 2009 at 10:48 am

It’s a good idea ! but with some little arrangements… Words could be ordered with alphabet and tags could be shared. Thank you for that new widget.

Snowstorm April 17th, 2009 at 11:02 am

great tool! I want it permanently as a widget.

Veilleie April 17th, 2009 at 11:55 am

Brillante idée, très utile pour la veille et notamment pour la recherche et l’ajout de nouvelle source.

AMBvirutually April 17th, 2009 at 4:12 pm

This is great.

Brice Irvine April 17th, 2009 at 4:46 pm

This is a good idea. However it lacks the ability to show more than a few links for any tag. Consider adding a ‘more’ link which might link to a display of a longer list of items.

maurice April 17th, 2009 at 4:51 pm

Brice Irvine: right-click and open the link in a new window/tab. You’ll get more suggestions at http://eco.netvibes.com/ :)

Matt Stark April 21st, 2009 at 4:08 pm

Mine is 7 lines but it doesn’t look like it’s getting the tags out of the articles. My cloud seems a bit irrelevant with the all to helpful Blog tag being the largest. :(

@ttwinS April 30th, 2009 at 10:04 am

So cool but a little bit poor graphically

Josée April 30th, 2009 at 2:35 pm

Très intéressant, il manque quelques ajustements pour que cet outil puisse réellement me servir.
Mon nuage contient trop de lignes, les mots sont en tout petits caractères. Pourrait-on choisir la fréquence des mots ? Comme Mathieu W., je crois qu’il serait utile de proposer l’option de générer les mots clés uniquement à partir des articles consultés (ou alors, marqués comme favoris).

Merci !

Vincent Liu April 30th, 2009 at 5:55 pm

Nicely Done!!

Béatrice Thèves-Engelbach May 2nd, 2009 at 6:17 pm

I love this cool tool! and the links towards connected topics are working very well. One question: would this service be free ? I recently used tagcrowd ’s and I was invited to pay 15$ if I wished to use a cloud in a book I recently published.

maurice May 4th, 2009 at 10:47 am

Béatrice: The service is and will remain free. It’s all based on the free widget catalog: eco.netvibes.com.

Camille May 5th, 2009 at 4:34 pm

C’est l’outil le plus interessant, je trouve. Il manque cependant de choix pour des widgets tres utilises comme celui “media” ou “cinema”. Le nuage de mots devrait aussi ne retenir que les plus utilises, l’idee d’ordre alphabetique est aussi interessante et enfin, les tags qui sont identiques a un detail pres pourraient etre reunis en un seul. Ex: litterature_jeunesse et litterature-jeunesse apparaissent tous les deux alors que c’est le meme contenu. Merci en tous cas pour cet outil bien utile! Il apparaitra a terme sur notre page?

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