Given that my previous post had listed all of my current projects, I thought I’d give you a taste of one of these projects. This one is called Readerfall, and it’s a visualization of my Google Reader feeds, built using Processing. I’ve been working on it on and off for about a month now, and I think it’s coming along very nicely. Here’s a screenshot for you:
Screenshot of Readerfall
So basically, every column in this graph represents a different feed that I subscribe to (Reaction, Ajaxian, USCHO, etc.), and each block is a different story. The blue stories were shared by someone else, and the green stories were shared by me. They’re also color-coded, so that older stories are darker. I also recently added a slider at the top so you can filter out entries within a certain date range.
I’m really happy with how Readerfall is going so far, but it’s got a little while to go before I’m going to post it. I need to set it up so that it actually loads the most recent list directly from Google, and so you can log in with your own username. I’m also interested in adding more animations and such to accentuate the “fun” aspect, since it’s meant to be personal rather than strictly informative.
Any other thoughts?