Clever Overload

I found the user interface for this new application from the University of Washington - Zoetrope - fascinating.  The application allows you to browse the history of webpages in a totally different way.  The base data is something already available to places like Google and the Internet Archive, but how the data is used is something else.  They introduce the concept of lenses - sort of like little windows through which you can see how a webpage has changed - and layer smart tools over it, for example a timeline-builder and a graph-builder, which allows you to see at a glance how things have changed.  Also innovative is the idea of connecting lenses together so that you can view the changes in parallel, allowing you to notice patterns and postulate reasons for it.  I’m looking forward to playing with this when it comes out.  Read more about it at Read/Write Web.