O'Reilly - Visualizing Internet
From ZooidWiki
Visualizing apps that highlight scale (any topic can have thousands of people interested in it), openness (inherent to Internet protocols (HTML) and entrenched in the community) and surprising innovation (millions of r&d projects, building on each other).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:VF - Vandal Fighter - watch Wikipedia edits in real time
http://www.akamai.com/html/technology/visualizing_akamai.html (from Frank) - Continually-updated visualizations provide a picture of global Web traffic, viruses/attacks, the speed of data moving between major cities, and the volume of data and users on the Akamai platform.
[edit] O'Reilly Response
I contacted Tim O'Reilly to see if there is any wider idea of these tools, and he indicated he will try to get a general post about it soon.
From: Roger Magoulas <roger@ oreilly >
Just off the top of my head, two digg labs tools that show real activity:
Trulia - a real estate site - has a great history of real estate feature that also uses satellite imaginary and, at least for me, effective visualization techniques. Really fun to play with
http://hindsight.trulia.com/map/#lat=37.782&lon=-122.405&zoom=15&metric=built&mix=0.500
Here's my neighborhood. Two interesting trends to notice: 1) development moving up a hill over time; 2) the effects of the oakland hills fire in the early 90's and rebuilding afterwords.
http://hindsight.trulia.com/map/#lat=37.846&lon=-122.230&zoom=15&mix=0.500
Both done by Stamen who do great work including time dimension in visualization.
Not real time, but gapminder is an example of change over time.
