>From: "Ian Skinner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: CF-Community <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: RE: Unbelievably freaking cool music reccommendation site
>Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 12:17:45 -0700
>Interesting... some observations
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>One of the complaints I have about this one is that the map only works in
>one direction. I went from Suzanne Vega to Neil Young, but couldn't get
>back. Minor points, but there's also no indication of what the size or
>color of the objects means (if anything).
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>I think this depends on the relationships. I followed a relationship from one circle to another and there was not a way back, but there was only one line connecting these circles. I started over and followed a line to another circle that was connected by two lines, here there was a precipice link to the original circle. So there is some significance with how the artist are connected some are one way others are two way for some reason.
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>Also, the "Last maps" in the control panel keeps track on where you have been at least a few steps, haven't tested the limits yet.
Yeah - but it would be nice if that history were represented in the contextual chart, not just in an external tool. The Plumb Thesaurus does a pretty good job of this, but even there this is a weak point (you always see the entry you came from but it's not distigushed in any real way).
Still I think that this kind of contextual mapping has some tremendous potential. We're just in the phase of sorting out de facto standards for the basics.
Once that gets settled (and a few more tools appear to build them) I think you'll see lots more of them. I wouldn't be at all suprised to see the same interface appear in a not to distant version of a major OS as an alternative file system navigator (once somebody gets meta-data-driven file systems right, that is).
Jim Davis
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