Introducing News Dots – By Chris Wilson – Slate Magazine Like Kevin Bacon's co-stars, topics in the news are all connected by degrees of separation. To examine how every story fits together, News Dots visualizes the most recent topics in the news as a giant social network. Subjects—represented by the circles below—are connected to one […]

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Trendsmap – Real-time local Twitter trends (tags: twitter map visualization googlemaps) SnapShotControl v1.0 Reference This library makes it easy to generate an image "snapshot" of your interactive map, using the Google Static Maps API. The default behavior adds a control to the map, and then shows a popup with the snapshot when the control is […]