Zoomism allows you to navigate the site entirely by zooming. It’s actually really fun and works quite well — a lot more adventurous than scanning and clicking URLs on a page. The site is using Flash to make all this happen so obvious downsides exists (e.g., you cannot select text or easily save images), however I think there is real potential in this concept. I would love to have a tool that allowed me to generate a gigantic map of an entire website that I can explore by zooming!
Where in the world is Raam?
thanks and very well put, also about the downsides. And the idea of a software that generates a zoomable interface from any selected website is strong and yet didn’t occur to me. A zoom-browser so to say.
I was amazed at how much fun exploring the huge landscape on zoomisim.com became for me… for a site with practically nothing useful to me, I actually had fun. I can’t imagine how much more fun exploring something like Wikipedia would be (though that makes me wonder how lots of text changes the zooming dynamic).
Text slows down a lot, but you would have to let the text load only when needed and then de-load it. So Wiki-Zoom sure would be possible.