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Flash visualizations coming to Digg: Stack and Swarm
TechCrunch's Michael Arrington has the scoop on a couple fancy new visualization tools that will be launching next Monday on Digg. Both are Flash-based visualizations that let you keep tabs on Digg stories in an eye-pleasing way. The first, Digg Stack, shows recent stories as vertical bars and diggs as blocks that fall on top of them, building up each story's "stack." You can click on a stack to see just that story, where a recent activity graph is shown. Digg Swarm shows stories as a sort of galaxy of circles, bigger circles indicating more popular stories, and users as yellow satellites that appear next to stories as they are dugg. These both look pretty cool (and would make neat screen savers), but I don't foresee them being especially useful beyond simple novelty. In related news, Arrington says Digg will be launching a new Sports section in August, to complement the Science, World & Business, Videos, Entertainment, and Gaming sections it added earlier this month.
Swarm the dot com
With Halloween fast approaching, it's a great time to get in some practice defending your territory against zombies. In Graveyard Shift, you take aim at zombies and other creepy-crawlies, blasting them into splatters of cartoony green guts. It's a casual first-person shooter, and it's very easy to get the hang of - use the mouse to aim, click to fire. Graveyard Shift has at least 15 levels, and it might even have some secret stages I haven't unlocked yet.
They key to getting good at Graveyard Shift is learning to use ...
