Hello everyone, this is Anthony Montalbano with InternetRiot.com, and today I got a quick video for you. I want to show you a cool little tool you can use to generate tag clouds, word clouds as this is called. Its wordle.net.
What you could do here is, is you can give it tags, words, whatever you want to call it, or you can give it a URL to a website, or you can give it a username to del.icio.us, and what it will do is output a really cool looking tag cloud or what they call a word cloud.
So I just want to show exactly how this is done. If you are not familiar with what a tag cloud is, let's take a quick look over here at InternetRiot.com. On the right hand side here you see tags. What it does is, for words that are more popular, they are bigger. So you can see like, for instance, Wikipedia, its larger, that means that it's more relevant in that site.
So smaller words means that they are featured less often, the bigger words are featured more often, and that's basically how a tag cloud works.
Well, what this Wordle does, is does the same exact thing, but it makes it look pretty. So let's do this. We are over to wordle.net. We are going to click on Create your own, and here we are can either Paste in a bunch of words, or we can actually just give it the URL of a website, which I am going to do here. I am going to click on Submit. Watch this.
Look at that, in a matter of a few seconds you have got this really cool looking word cloud based off of the words of InternetRiot.com.
Now, another thing you can do is change the look and feel of this by just clicking this Randomized button here at the bottom. So I am going to click on Randomize, and now I have a different looking word cloud. I can click on it again, and look at this, again, it looks different, but it still looks cool, and if you notice, it's all the words that are featured on that website.
Boom! Again, I like that one. So I want to add this to my website. So what I am going to do is click Print screen, I will Paste this into my favorite Photoshop or Fireworks or whatever image writing software you have, Save it as an image, and you can embed it into your website.
Just a cool little tool. If you are looking for word clouds, if you want to do something different, then your typical word cloud, tag cloud, whatever you want to call it, wordle.net can do that for you.
That's all I have for you today. InternetRiot.com, I will see you again.
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