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title: "Comment of the Day: Visualizing the Real Time Web"
date: 2008-03-13
author: "Richard MacManus"
categories:
  - name: "ReadWriteWeb"
    url: "/category/readwriteweb.md"
tags:
  - name: "2008"
    url: "/tag/2008.md"
---

# Comment of the Day: Visualizing the Real Time Web

![](https://web.archive.org/web/20090104151323im_/http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/visualization_real_time_web.jpg)Over the past couple of days we’ve had two in-depth posts on the theme of **visualization**. This is one of our trends to watch this year; and so these posts are well worth your time reading (and viewing!). Marshall Kirkpatrick wrote [User Interfaces Rapidly Adjusting to Information Overload](https://web.archive.org/web/20090104151323/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/user_interfaces_information_overload.php) and Sarah Perez wrote [The Best Tools for Visualization](https://web.archive.org/web/20090104151323/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/the_best_tools_for_visualization.php). The winning comment is from Sarah’s post and is from Anton of [twingly.com](https://web.archive.org/web/20090104151323/http://www.twingly.com/). Anton pointed to his app, a screensaver that is a visualization of the blogosphere as a world globe.

Congratulations Anton, you’ve won a $30 Amazon voucher – courtesy of our competition sponsors AdaptiveBlue and their [Netflix Queue Widget](https://web.archive.org/web/20090104151323/http://www.adaptiveblue.com/widgets_auto.html?section=nfx&name=Personalized%20Feed).

Here is Anton’s comment, followed by a video of his app.

> “Our screensaver is a visualization of the real time web… more precise a visualization over the blogosphere, real time, as a world globe.
> 
> Read more about it here, and look at the Youtube-movie:[http://www.twingly.com/ScreenSaver.aspx](https://web.archive.org/web/20090104151323/http://www.twingly.com/ScreenSaver.aspx)
> 
> I think it’s worth to mentioning!”

*Originally published on ReadWriteWeb ([archived copy](https://web.archive.org/web/20020204040018/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/visualization_real_time_web.php))*