WikiPediaVision is another Google Maps mashup that shows activity going on in real time. This will display edits to the English Wikipedia as they occur.
Now, I just mentioned a map mashup from Ask500People yesterday, that showed polling results in real time. While still somewhat superfluous, it had its good merits. And while WikiPediaVision is well done, I don’t think I’ll be paying attention to it for very long.
Edits only appear one at a time, so you’ve got a pretty tiny window for checking out any given edit. These edits are interactive, so you can click on the tab as it appears, in order to see the updated Wikipedia entry. And there are no embed options, or custom features.
Created by Laszlo Kozma, a graduate student at the Helsinki University of Technology, WikiPediaVision was inspired by the likes of Twittervision an Flickrvision, both of which are real-time map mashups showing activity occurring around very popular applications. If you check out some of Kozma’s other projects, it’s clear that he’s quite interested in discovering the visual benefits of particular actions.
One project, FishEyeTabs, is designed specifically to help you identify browser tab more easily, if you’ve got too many open and they begin to shrink. Another is a way of formating web bookmarks so that they’re visually organized by category and color,moving away from the concept behind social bookmarking, which is more concerned with ranking for organization purposes.
[via wired]
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