Posts Tagged ‘wordle’
Site review: Tagxedo - tag cloud creator
June 23rd, 2010
Remember Wordle, the application for creating word clouds? Well Tagxedo is a similar type of word cloud creator, but with a twist.
What’s the Twist?
You can upload images for the word cloud to morph around.
How it works:
Add one of the following options; a URL, Twitter or Delicious ID, a news search or a normal search term or even an RSS feed. The information is then pulled in to create your word cloud. Next is the exciting part where you can play around with the multitude of settings until you get your desired final product.
What is does:
- Generate tag clouds in real-time, then respin to your liking
- Save the tag cloud as images for printing and sharing
- Look at all variants of the clouds in a gallery, and pick the one you want for further tweaking or saving
- Choose from many different fonts
- Quickly switch between different colours and themes
- Constrain the cloud to selected shapes (heart, star, cloud, oval, etc)
- Use images as custom shapes (e.g. Reddit Alien) [premium feature]
- Use words as custom shapes (e.g. “USA”, “Love”, “Joy”, “I LOVE YOU”) [premium feature only]
- The final image can be saved for download
- The premium features are currently free while it is still in Beta.
View some more examples from the gallery.
In summary Tagxedo is a really fun tool that could be used to great effect in presentations, it’s something I personally wouldn’t mind paying extra for to use the premium features.The only problem is that you have to have Silverlight technology installed to use the application.
Key social media influencers’ word clouds
August 15th, 2008
I have been meaning to try out the “word clouds” tool that has been doing the rounds out for a while now!
The tool is called Wordle and it’s great for getting highly customisable visualisations of keywords.
The below word clouds are from the homepages of key social media influencers.
(click on the images for a larger preview)
No surprises in the word clouds, and the biggest mentions go to Twitter, social media, blogs - SEO is mentioned but not as much as I would have imagined (although these clouds are only from the homepages, they probably give a fairly good indication of keywords within the rest of the site, but others could be more prominant).
This is a great little tool that can be used in many ways such as identifying competitor’s keywords and messaging.
The man behind Wordle is a gent called Jonathan Feinberg - a Senior Software Engineer at IBM Research. Thanks Jonathan for creating a fab tool.