Webzari : http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/060727-111305 is a tool that visually maps the data from Yahoo Site Explorer. It takes a site's inlinks, and maps them in planets on a map.

Placebase (used with the Pushpin API) is hosting a demonstration of Dynamic Layers. Via http://www.directionsmag.com/article.php?article_id=2237&trv=1

GoodEvil Map : http://www.peacejournalism.org/index.php?f=data_home&a=3 (One of the many visual aids used in Peace Journalism presentations.)

Figures from the Blackboard patent : http://www.flickr.com/photos/mike_malloch/sets/540379/ also available as a Flickr slideshow. Via http://www.knownet.com/writing/elearning2.0/entries/figures_from_blackboard_patent

Xcavator : http://www.xcavator.net/index.html?sid (for limited public demo) allows you to make a visual sketch and then find digital images based on that reference. Via http://www.masternewmedia.org/news/2006/07/28/visual_similarity_search_engine_finds.htm

(Annimation) "filling the browser window with clickable hexagons" : http://srufaculty.sru.edu/david.dailey/svg/pattern.svg (Events and dynamic SVG). Via http://srufaculty.sru.edu/david.dailey/svg/SVGAnimations.htm

3D (visualization) models : http://www.emailerosion.org/erosion.html of email messages.

How long will the buzz about mashup go on? : http://www.directionsmag.com/article.php?article_id=2236 also discussed at http://blogs.zdnet.com/SAAS/index.php?p=178 and http://news.com.com/2100-1032_3-6062563.html

“Overview first, zoom and filter, then details-on-demand”; Information-seeking visualization paradigm of Shneiderman (1996) discussed http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~ccollins/TR-wordnet-explorer.pdf

How and Why Wikipedia Works : http://www.riehle.org/computer-science/research/2006/wikisym-2006-interview.html

Where Are the Truly Disruptive Innovators? : http://www.innovateforum.com/innovate/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=362239

A Coloring–book Theory of Modern War : http://garnet.acns.fsu.edu/~nr03/A%20Coloring%20Book%20Theory%20of%20Modern%20War.htm

100+ templates and on-line image generators : http://txt2pic.com/

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