Digg’s killer Swarm and Stack

Cory Bergman July 26th, 2006

Digg has launched two “interactive visualizations” of how people interrelate with stories in real-time. Swarm, for example, shows “diggers” (users) swarming around stories as they vote for them. Very cool stuff. Sure, it may not be more than an entertaining animation, but you can’t dismiss the simple fact that Digg is learning more about user-created news through its experimentation than any news organization out there. Screen shot of Swarm below…