glancet (http://www.glancet.com) is a quick way to browse news headlines. It extends the Google News treemap from newsmap.jp by using HTML instead of Flash (yay tablets!) and incorporating signals from Facebook/Twitter to reconfigure the treemap. It was built on the excellent d3.js library by Mike Bostock.<p>As a news junkie, it was a fun side project and I would love feedback on design or utility and any feature requests you may have.
Would be better to have the pop-over on 'onHover' instead of 'onClick'. Ability to turn on/off certain feeds would be good too.<p>I was working on a similar treemap visualization for the links of my twitter feed though I ended up abandoning the project.
I loved Newsmap.jp, good to see others still find it practical.<p>But here I can't turn off certain feeds, can't manually refresh, can't change color. Definitely need these things to start with before it can really be considered usable.
Way cool. Some things I'd like to see in a later version:<p>* Filterable categories (it pains me to see celebrity news anywhere)<p>* Hideable header<p>* Refresh/more/new -- just some way to pull in other stories<p>Great work so far.