TagNavigate the TagWeb 2.0 with TagClouds (now with Zoom! and Color!)
I’m curious: Does anyone out there actually use tag clouds to navigate around web sites? Do you actually do anything more than “Oh, it looks like they’ve posted a lot about HTML, let me see more about that.”? How is that different from reading a post about HTML and clicking the tag there?
Don’t get me wrong, I understand what they are and I think they’re fun (particularly on flickr)—but are they actually fundamentally useful for regular navigation in any way, or are they just a neat information visualization?
I can’t stand them. I understand why some of the words are bigger, but does that really mean I want to see that more than the other ones in the cloud. I also dislike how they often start to look columnar. Oh, and what’s with multicolor ones that I’ve seen? What a visual assault. They all look like a run-on sentence that a first time, child, computer user formatted to show mommy, to me.
yeh, i agree with temas. they look ugly and like nonsense to me. The concept is neat but I don’t think it works well.