BBC Complete Shuffle Box
Talking about thousands maybe millions of possible links you can reach from the BBC site I thought about just having some fun. With the "BBC Complete Shuffle Box" you can litterally shuffle your news, tv-shows, radio-stations and whatever you will find at BBC. It can´t substitute a navigation you have on that site right now but it will help even kids to get some fun out of it.
The start-screen shows a so-called tag-cloud. Every headline of the BBC-Universe can stand here. Links which are clicked more often are bigger and bolder than links of less interest (which means fewer people have clicked them).
With the shuffle-button on the bottom of the site you can show randomly picked new headlines.
Before you read some news (or watch a show or listen to a station) you can drag and drop the headlines / links to the sidebar. They will be stored there for a while (maybe a cookie on your computer or something) or they will be stored in your BBC-account. Once in you can easily click through all your bookmarked contents without going back to a main menu (that´s annoying sometimes).
Your BBC account lets you store some personal stuff like a personal newsletter (with your favorite categories - updated and emailed to you dayly) or some special applications at the bottom of the site. Your can drag applications like the "BBC Time Module" or the "BBC Weather forecast" in here. The personal box can grow in the future with all kinds of content like a mailbox, a profile with photos etc..
Well. That´s for now. Many ideas I haven´t mentioned yet. But that should do.
Greez Benno
- 23 May 2006 12:22
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It feels cluttered and messy.
People just won't read through such a tag cloud.
Typography was developed for several reasons. Readability is one of them I'm afraid.
It's the problem with big tag clouds; too many unrelated words (catagories) too close to each other.