Mindmapping Movies and Music With LivePlasma
Michael Arrington
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I’m a sucker for good looking Flash sites, and Frederic Vavrille’s LivePlasma, based in France, is a great one.
He’s mashed up the Amazon recommendation API for music and movies to visually show the relationship between bands/artists/movies. The results are very relevant and there are links to purchase anything you see that you want.
Thanks Alarm Clock for pointing to this.
that site is great. You should go and see CNET who have implemented the flash in their news pages -
http://news.com.com/2104-7349_.....?tag=st.bp
Great way to view different related articles.
Also, the live plasma has been taken a little further by a site called pandora - http://www.pandora.com. Now this is a fantastic concept and I hope they make heaps from affiliate marketing.
I agree Mike and actually suggested to Kosso last week that he should develop a version of his excellent OPML/RSS browser to use a LivePlasma type interface. That is, node summits in the OPML structure appearing as the ’sun’ with all its links/sub-nodes orbiting around it. Clicking on an sub-node ‘planet’ would then move it to the ‘center of the universe’ and throw up it’s own satellites. I just think its a really intuitive way for non-computer users to interact with OPML structures at kiosk for instance. Imaging landing at the airport of a foreign country and being able walk over to a LivePlasma type display at a kiosk and navigate through local information in an OPML direcotry? I’d love it.
Does anybody know where the Flash source file for this came from? Who developed it and if they’d be willing to share it for further development?