A pretty good "widget engine" actually.. very lightweight (that's how they SHOULD all be), with a couple of clever features... maybe it's lacking more "widgets". I would use it, if I wasn't already using Thunderbird & Miranda for what it does.

"un projet en développement constant ancré dans le domaine de la visualisation de données complexes, utilisant les flux numériques des agences de presse sur Internet (dépêches/images/sons/vidéos) comme matériaux mouvants"

realtime flow of livejournal posts

We are faced with a harmonized collectivity of consciousnesses to a sort of superconciousness.

"explores the problems and possibilities of computer-controlled scent output (...) with particular emphasis on the role of scent in information display in a variety of media (...) explore the use of computer-controlled olfactory display"

Mail Trends lets you analyze and visualize your email (as extracted from an IMAP server).

"Many Eyes is a bet on the power of human visual intelligence to find patterns. Our goal is to "democratize" visualization and to enable a new social kind of data analysis."

"This is a site for large data sets and the people who love them: the scrapers and crawlers who collect them, the academics and geeks who process them, the designers and artists who visualize them."

"an algorithmically generated visualization based on statistical information provided by Last.fm software, more particular every song listened to by a particular user over an 18 month period of time."

"a collection of mathematical & algorithmical computation demonstrations, as a new resource for research & education. all applications can be run fully interactively with a free player, while the source code is open & accessible."

"On the map, white dots represent individual blogs, sized according to number of links."

"we provide the following list of the top ten worst graphs in the scientific literature. As these examples indicate, good scientists can make mistakes."

msnbc rss feeds screensavers

"Capturing from a live network interface, or from a saved trace file, bsod visualises the flow of network data between hosts, providing (at a glance) information about network usage."

Network Traffic 3D Visualization

"j ai que 16 ans ms je suis consiant des consekence que ca peut apporter de faire se genre de farce pff dsl ms ji esper quil y aura des senction au saien de la rtbf merci et aurevoire" // a et y'a une vidéo

technique for adding simple bar charts or sparkline-like diagrams within the cells of an Excel spreadsheet. the already built-in Excel REPT function repeats any text entry a certain number of times. for instance, REPT(”X”,5) results in “XXXXX”.

visualization of world statistics

Digital technology, mass media, globalization and commodity culture shape each artist's vision: they are adept at translating synthetic data into scenes of breathtaking beauty.

another tags-space search engine and visualisation with sublime interaction and animation

lets you surf Flickr’s ‘tag space’. Flickr tags are keywords used to classify images. Each tag has a list of ‘related’ tags, based on clustered usage analysis.

"The stripes you see at top are a near-realtime cumulative view of popular sites posted to the Del.icio.us social bookmarking service (if you don't see green and red stripes, you need Flash), organized by date and popularity."