Thursday 7 February 2008

Best of visual: Silobreaker

By commenting on the takeover battle between Microsoft and Yahoo Christoph Dernbach („Mr. Gadget“) refers to another compelling approach to envision information. Silobreaker provides a couple of state of the art visual features all based on web search results.

I especially like the network maps, making transparent the links between certain people and subjects. Christoph used such a Silobreaker map to prove his claim that not Bill Gates but Steve Ballmer is the driving force behind Microsoft’s bid for Yahoo. Other elements are geographical hot spot maps and trend charts.

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