Wednesday, January 08, 2003

A Stunning New Way of Searching Touchgraph. An article in Search Day highlights Touchgraph, an interactive graphing tool, and a couple of its applications.   <-- A sample GoogleBrowser output of Peter Merholz's PeterMe blog as a hub. The GoogleBrowser offers several sophisticated controls for refining your views. Unless you're fairly strongly grounded in graph theory, it's best to simply play with the defaults. Full instructions for understanding the graph and using the advanced browsing capabilities Several other sites use the TouchGraph technology for different types of information. The Amazon Browser is particularly interesting, visualizing the "also-bought" relationships of Amazon shoppers. The PubMed Browser gives you visual relationships for medical literature in the Medline database. And the Google Set Vista is really cool, showing relationships between terms that Google uses to create conceptually related "sets" of words. [Search Day Newsletter] [Ross Mayfield's Weblog] 6:12:15 PM    comment []

Major retailers to test "smart shelves". Wal-Mart and Tesco team up with consumer products giant Gillette to take stock of a new technology that allows for real-time tracking of inventory levels. [CNET News.com] 5:17:59 PM    comment []