New version of the communication visualization engine from TouchGraph

For two years now, interface designers from TouchGraph have continued to improve their unique Java browser, which can visualize, in the form of graphs, links between websites and any other objects (for example, it can be used to visualize connections between users on social networks like Habra ). This browser has been greatly improved since we first spoke about it a year ago .

The program is a Java applet (does not recognize Cyrillic encodings) with a lot of additional settings. Separate applets are loaded to process Google results and to process Amazon results . In the first case, the sites and the links between them are demonstrated based on the Google information about “similar sites” (the [related:] command).



In the Amazon browser, the sites are occupied by products - books and CDs. The link structure is based on the Amazon recommendation system.
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Naturally, graphically, information about the relationships between objects is perceived much better than simple text lists. The scope of the TouchGraph engine is very wide. For example, this technology is used in the Friendster social network to visualize connections between users. Very handy to see the necessary “chain of handshakes” that separates you and any other person.



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