OurSignal is an interesting visualization that shows the current most popular stories from Digg, Delicious, Reddit, Hacker News and Yahoo! Buzz in one page.
Most Popular Tech Stories on the Web
The font size in the visualization is relative to the popularity of a story (bigger means more popular) while colors denote the trend – warm colors mean that story is increasing in popularity while cool colors indicate that the story is sliding off the charts.
What’s useful about OurSignal is that it auto-hides headlines of all stories that you may previously read in the browser. It does so by matching the web address of stories against URLs stored in your browser history and if there’s a match, it means that you’ve visited that link before and so it’s not shown in the the visualization map.
Stories on the OurSignal page are refreshed every 15 minutes so this could do as an interesting screensaver as well.
Find this article at: http://www.labnol.org/internet/visualize-popular-web-content/8960/
Reader Comments
I am not sure if you have seen this or not but Innography utilizes the same concept, ina different manner though.
Written by Nikhil Sharma on 06.04.09
The concept of the website is good. But I am unable to find of the main advantage of visiting this website.
Written by Royal Blogger on 06.04.09
Screensaver idea is quite great..really!!
Written by Shahab khan on 06.05.09
Man then you haven’t seen newsmap.jp. Its much better than oursignal.com and the interface is totally amazing. You can also search for news and search by country too.
Written by Bishal Adhikary on 06.08.09