[Developers] new Freebase application .. genealogy of influence browser

[Alec Flett]

Neat! Just playing with it, one point of feedback: It would be neat if  
it could orient the links on basic directionality - right now it's  
kind of a mix of links pointing in and out of the center object.

I think if all the inward-pointing nodes were on one side, and the  
outword pointing nodes were on the other, there would be some clear  
"flow" of influence - especially when some of the topics influence  
each other...

Alec

On May 27, 2008, at 3:26 PM, Martin Dudek wrote:

> Good morning Freebaser,
>
> hope everyone is happy out there.
>
> I played around with the excellent freebase API for a while and
> surprise, surprise, something has manifested.
>
> http://goosebumps4all.net/goi/
>
> The goi browser is for many reasons declared as alpha - nevertheless
> it seems to be stable enough to ask people to have a look. The browser
> is written in Actionscript 3 based on Jeff Heer's wonderful flare
> visualization toolkit  (http://flare.prefuse.org), which is also
> declared as alpha but astonishing mature.
>
> The goi browser project is not open source at the moment. Nevertheless
> there is nothing particular special in the source beyond the demos
> which come along with the flare package and the demos which can be
> found in the flare assistance pool flap,
> (http://goosebumps4all.net/34all/bb/forumdisplay.php?fid=28) If you
> are looking for some Flex/AS3 libs for similar applications or any
> kind of information visualization, I would highly recommend to give
> flare a try.
>
> Feedback of any kind highly appreciated
>
> Cheers
>
> martin
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