Tag Archive for 'google'

Nov 12

Information visualization through graph with TouchGraph

Graph visualization is a powerfull means to find relation between data and cluster them (It is one of my favorite method). Touchgraph is a online visualisation tools that allows to generate a graph from a query you made. It is a java plugins that work right into your browser.
Currently Touchgraph work with:

  • Amazon
  • Google
  • Facebook

I found the rendering very impressive and the integration with facebook photo totally cool (see the screenshots). However you can’t use it facebook-sample-lg-3.jpg on your own data. It could be a killing application to add to a publication list or even blog post. Imagine the ability to navigate visualy between posts. Well it will come one day, I just don’t know when :) If you want to try your own query, just go to their web site: TouchGraph | Products: Our Technology
Ps theses guys rocks they use game theory as amazon example :)

Nov 07

ZoomInfo a search engine for people

Google never cease to add new searchable things: articles and books (google scholar), blog, news … But one thing is still not searchable : people. When you do a background check on someone or just want to find you 5th grade school buddy, google is not that helpful. I always wanted to have a search engine for people. Well I was pretty astonished when I tried  ZoomInfo.com This site does exactly this. At first I thought it was linkedin like but no I crawl the web and extract people information. I tried it on a couple of people I know and it work very well. Thus this is a site that you should try and bookmark right away.