Wordle is a neat, lightweight web application that lets you make beautiful tag clouds out of any text. I entered the text of LaunchPad Coworking’s Executive Summary directly from the business plan, did a bit of simple tweaking, and got this:
LaunchPad Coworking executive summary in Wordle
June 23rd, 2008 · Posted by Julie Gomoll
Categories: design
4 responses so far ↓
1 Cesar Torres // Jun 23, 2008 at 11:49 am
Wow, that’s beautiful!
It almost looks like a map of the US. It would be cool if they let you decide on a shape for the tag cloud. Imagine yours in the shape of a coffee cup, laptop, etc. Great find!
2 Verysupercool Sue // Jun 29, 2008 at 8:50 am
I haven’t found a tag cloud app that I really like yet. Besides Wordle, is there another one you recommend? Good luck with your project, it looks very exciting!
3 Julie Gomoll // Jun 29, 2008 at 4:15 pm
The only other tag cloud tools I’ve used are the ones built into Wordpress and Typepad.
Nice to meet you last night!
4 Austin Coworking - Charting the waters of collaboration - LaunchPad Coworking Blog // Sep 8, 2008 at 12:23 pm
[...] Visualization of LaunchPad Coworking executive summary done using Wordle, which is now part of Many-Eyes. [...]
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