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The WebSummarizer blog gives examples of using summarization as a tool for speeding up reading and comprehension. Here is an example how WikiSummarizer facilitates visualization of information and presenting it as:  1. Visual Summary - interactive map of main topics with summaries - just click on the "+" or the "Expand All" button 2. Tree View - structured outline 3. Keyword Cloud - the 10 most important topics that are linked to Wikipedia Knowledge Base - just click on any of the keywords

Cohere is a visual tool to create, connect and share Ideas.Back them up with websites. Support or challenge them. Embed them to spread virally. Discover who - literally - connects with your thinking.

"Powerful Free Infographic Tools To Create Your Own Infographics A Do-It-Yourself Guide to Infographics"

Infographics and data visualizations have become incredibly popular ways to impart information while keeping your audience engaged. As a result, a slew of user-friendly, free online applications have been created which enable users to create their own information graphics. Here are five such tools that I think are particularly valuable:

"DebateGraph is an award-winning, web-platform for visualizing and sharing networks of thought - and opening reasoning and action to collaborative questioning and iterative improvement."

"An Evidence Hub is designed to help your members add their insights where they'll make the highest impact, and through the use of different visualizations/maps, helps answer questions such as: - Who in my region is working on this problem? - Are there any partnerships between projects in these two areas, on this theme? - What are the key challenges we're facing? - Who has potential solutions to these, and what's the evidence that - they work? What evidence-based claims can we make with confidence? - What are the most controversial issues?"

Kred, a community influence and outreach measure from social analytics company PeopleBrowsr, is staking their claim in the evolution of the "science" of social media influence by launching Kred Story, a visual social content aggregator

Celebrating excellence in data visuallization and information design.

Quietly is a new web-based app which allows you to create beautiful list-based slideshows which can be shared and embedded on any website. Each card in a Quietly slideshow can be made up by a: - website - from which you can pick any image - an image - which you can search or upload - a location on the map - a name, a URL and a description The user can also customize font styling, the cover image, and many other visual components of his slideshow.

"Check out Google Trends to see the latest trending stories, or conduct your own analysis. You can also follow us on Twitter for the latest data visualizations from the News Lab team, or visit us on Github to see our latest data releases for journalists."

Easelly is a classic What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG) platform-you can choose your infographic elements and drag them around as needed. Choose from a wide selection of backgrounds, add other objects (like a picture of a person), upload your own images and use your own data. You have almost 100% control over any part of your infographic. The result is a professional, custom infographic your audience will love-and you didn't even need a graphic designer.

The Internet Map is a bi-dimensional presentation of links between websites on the Internet. Every site is a circle on the map, and its size is determined by website traffic, the larger the amount of traffic, the bigger the circle. Users' switching between websites forms links, and the stronger the link, the closer the websites tend to arrange themselves to each other.   It encompasses over 350 thousand websites from 196 countries and all domain zones. Information about more than 2 million links between the websites has joined some of them together into topical clusters.

Cycle studies are the science of everyday life, as normal as it gets. Its focus is the daily routine, with its habits and rhythms as they occure in most citizens' lifes. It is the power of the normal that brings stability and the routine that ensures security. But is is the cycles's dynamic of flow and continuation that prevents life from freezing.

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360 degree panorama with social tagging via Facebook

Cool infographic from the Skloog blog depicting the history of social media starting from the postal service in 550 BC to Google Buzz in 2010.

On August 30th, 1982, 29 years ago, 16-year old V. A. Shiva copyrighted "EMAIL" along with the GUI we still use today with the fields "To: From: Cc: Bcc: Subject: Reply, Reply All, Forward" and Email body and attachment.