Web 2.0 tag cloud laser etching

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Web 2.0 tag cloud laser etching

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Mac geek Dan Lurie took his PowerBook to Squid Labs yesterday for a custom laser-etched cover. Dan designed a tag cloud full of Web 2.0 buzzwords for the world to see.

He'll definitely have fun at the next Web geek gathering. I have a feeling most of the buzzwords will end up a historical blip like so many of the companies in the Monopoly .com edition I have at home.

If you're coming to San Francisco for WWDC start designing your etched covers now! There are a few laser etching shops in the Bay area.

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kosmar on July 17, 2006 at 2:44 AM wrote: #

in fact i designed the cloud back in september 05, and i agree to the blip part of your post :) you might check the original image at http://flickr.com/photos/kosmar/62381076/ or at http://nww.nerdwideweb.com/
Lord Andrew J. Andrews II on May 20, 2007 at 9:55 PM wrote: #

That's pretty hot. As an end-user, I think tag clouds have a great aesthetic appeal and might eventually be used to represent things that are infinitely more relevant than a swarm of buzzwords. Live speech-to-text-to-tag-cloud mapping of the novel content in a crowd's conversations, for example, could prove to be something very exciting, especially if the crowd was engaged with the presentation. Live-action memetics - it'd be a hoot!