This is a bit unreal.
These guys have a hosted service where they visualize your web traffic as a busy city. The buildings represent web pages and people ‘visit’ the web pages.
This seems like BoingBoing material!
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Trackback on Feb 13th, 2006 at 9:38 am
This is a Unix System
Via FeedBlog: VisitorVille is a three-dimensional web traffic visualization app.
Reminds me of the scene from Jurassic Park where the hacker girl Lex saves the day by using a 3D filesystem navigator to lock out the hungry velociraptors. While typical H…
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February 11, 2006 at 3:30 am
This has been around for a while. When I’d gone through and tried it out before, it reminded me quite a bit of those prototypical “flying through a sea of data demos” that were all over the place in the 90’s.
People were supposed to be able to navigate the NASDAQ with their Nintendo PowerGlove driven interface to let them see the moving tide of buys and sells.
In reality, the metaphors provided by these systems abstract you too far from what’s actually happening and the novelty of “Gee, Digg sure is sending busloads of visitors” soon gives way to the ease and need to see numbers is black and white.
February 16, 2006 at 4:36 pm
I read Michael Buckbee’s comments above, and looked to see if he, as he said, had “tried it out before”, but sadly did not find any record of him in our subscriber database for the past 2 years. So best to try it out yourselves, and be your own judges.