Zoomclouds

Newsvine ought to integrate something like this. You can build tag clouds out of any feed you like, and it's extensible with the API, so it could probably hook into del.icio.us.

What are ZoomClouds main features?

* Powerful content analisys tools

ZoomClouds uses two different powerful content analisys tools. One of them extracts possibly relevant terms. The other not only grabs the most relevant terms but also becomes smarter over time, learning from the terms previously extracted - or rejected. So if your cloud doesn't look too sharp at the beginning, just give it some time.

* Complete visual interface

A complete and very easy to use visual interface will help you design the look of your cloud any way you want without even having to write one single line of code. You can, of course, manually edit the CSS code at will if you want, but usually you won't have to.

With the visual editor you can select how many tags you want in your cloud, the minimum and maximum font sizes, tag colors, border colors and width, hover colors, padding, background colors, whether you want the weight of the tags to appear next to them, draw (or not) a dot between tags...

* Extended visual options

If the visual editor lets you design all the most important visual aspects of your cloud without you having to mess up with CSS code, by using what we call extra commands you can further customize how you want your cloud to look like: sort by weight instead of A-Z, assign random colors, show one tag per line (that is, show a list, not a cloud), word-wrap the tags, etc

* Comprehensive Statistics

See how many clicks your tags are getting by the hour, by day, week, month or year. Get reports to see what tags were clicked the most and from what countries those clicks were made.

* Exclude unwanted tags

For every cloud (or for all of them) you can enter a list of unwanted tags, that is, tags that you simply don't want to see in your tag cloud no matter what.

* Teach ZoomClouds what's really important

Similarly, you can also enter a list of terms that you definitely want in your tag cloud but that ZoomClouds didn't catch. Add them, and ZoomClouds will never miss them again.

* Automatic and manual updates

Automated updates when they're really needed. Other services do somewhat random periodic updates or have a "waiting list". ZoomClouds takes into account when the clouds are being shown, and updates them accordingly. And of course, you can update your cloud any time you want.

* Up to date information

You can see when it was the last time your clouds were updated, and you can update them any time you want.

* Time-sensitive clouds

You decide - not us - whether you want your cloud to reflect what's trendy during just the last 24 hours, or the last 3 days, 7 days, one month, and so on.

* Save your cloud designs

You can save different cloud designs and apply them to whichever cloud you have at any time.

* Share cloud designs

You can share your cloud designs (if you want) so other users can take a look at your cloud designs and perhaps even use them, and viceversa: you can look at other people's cloud designs and use them if you like.

* Extend the posibilities with the ZoomClouds API

Take the results from your cloud - or any cloud - and do with them whatever you want: link the tags in your cloud with tags in Flickr and build a mosaic of Flickr pictures based in your tags. Or build a Flash app that does the unthinkable with the tags in your cloud, etc.

Good find, Irma. :)

Sweet!

Very nice! Cool service, thanks for sharing.

Cool, created one. :P

yep, to a shorter one. :D

I quite like it. I'm not entirely sure how much I'd use it though.

I created one for my blog and put it HERE. I've already got enough Javascript stuff running on there so I'm a bit dubious about putting even more in. Still, it's a nice little toy and it might be better to use that tag cloud than the Movable Type widget.

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