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Introducing the new visualization

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As you capture your photos and build your connections over time, your photos begin to tell a story, a story about you! Our visualization of your lifeblob captures that story, frame by frame, as it unfolds.

Each connection that you add to your photo indicates things that are important to you. And connections that occur across multiple photos indicate things or people that are really important to you. Wouldn’t it be very interesting to see how your connections, your preferences and your relations haveĀ  changed over time?

That is exactly what we bring to you with the new lifeblob visualization. Below your lifeblob, you will now see your connections represented in a tag cloud format. The following rules determine what the tag cloud looks like:

  • The connections that are more important to you show up bigger and the ones that are not as important show up smaller.
  • As you move across your lifeblob, your connections also change to reflect things that were relevant to you in the date range you are currently looking at.
  • And when you are looking at someone else’s lifeblob, the connections that are common with you show up in green color.

As an example, here is a screenshot of my lifeblob – can you find 4 connections that are most important to me during this time period?

The new lifeblob visualization

And here is a screenshot of Rahul’s lifeblob – can you find 4 connections that are common between him and me?

Lifeblob with highlighted connections

Do let us know how you like this visualization – we are all ears for your feedback :)

Written by Pranav Bhasin

November 4th, 2009 at 3:58 am