Tried Wordle Yet? Generate Tag Cloud Art From Your Del.icio.us Bookmarks

Filed under Mashups by Chad | 4 comments


It’s no secret that I dig mashups. There is a particularly cool one that popped up recently called Wordle. It generates a word-art style tag cloud from a collection of text, an RSS feed or uses your Del.icio.us bookmarks tags. A very nice packing algorithm and some good color and typography customization options make the end results pretty aesthetically pleasing. Using my web design bookmarks (used very often as a teaching resource for my students), produced this masterpiece:

You should go check the site out. A pretty good selection of creations is popping up over there. I’m not sure about the actual construction of the piece, but due to it being a Java Applet, I’m guessing it was built with Processing.

[del.icio.us] [Digg] [dzone] [Facebook] [Google] [Newsvine] [Reddit] [StumbleUpon] [Technorati] [Twitter] [Yahoo!]

Posted on June 30, 2008


4 comments

  1. Darren Daz Cox Jun 30

    yow, let’s party like it’s 1999 haha!!! is that helvetica? :)

  2. Graphics Dan Jul 19

    wow, that is awesome! never knew what to call that…I guess cloud art is as good as any other name. thanks for the link, ive already made one.

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