The only usage of it I have seen recently is within student projects where they have tended to use the available open-source code and produce something rather rarefied in its real-world application.
I agree, it's not a very user-friendly way of navigating data, or even photographs. It creates an illusion of empathy with the user, but in fact relies heavily on input. Meta-data once entered into any data-repository can be manipulated in any way. That said, I am an absolute fan of visual thesaurus and the Flock browser. Thomas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=36858 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help