Clusty

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From the Clusty Website:



What's a Clusty Cloud?
A Clusty Cloud is a tool that webmasters or bloggers can use to instantly visualize a topic using the familiar [|tag cloud] display. What makes the Clusty Cloud unique is that you can create a cloud based on any topic or [|query] - you don't need tags or months of content on a subject to create an interesting cloud. Clusty Clouds are generated using our search results for the topic you enter. Since the tags you see come from Clusty, you can click on any of them to go to Clusty's search results. Using Clusty to generate the cloud also ensures that it is always up-to-date because the clusters are generated in real-time.

What do you do with a Clusty Cloud?
Use the Clusty Cloud for individual blog posts, blog sidebars, your personal site or any other web page. If you're writing a blog post about [|David Heinemeier Hansson], for example, you can add a Clusty Cloud in the middle or end of your post to provide a high-level overview about the creator of Ruby on Rails, a popular web application framework. At a glance, your readers might see clusters such as "37Signals", "Loud Thinking", "Ruby on Rails", and "O'Reilly Open Source". You can also customize the look of your Clusty Cloud to match your site or topic. See the examples below for ideas. If you are using a Clusty Cloud on your site and would like to be used as an example, please [|let us know].

Examples
Make a Clusty Cloud about a person to allow your site's visitors to drill down to find out more information about that person.Use a Clusty Cloud as an alternate to a tag cloud for a site by using the host: field.Make a vanity Clusty Cloud to see what the rest of the web is saying about you or your site. Post a story about a recent person or event and include a Clusty Cloud after your blog post that shows all of the highlights about that topic (use quotes or any other [|advanced syntax] to create clusters more specific to your topic).

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