Real-Time Xbox Live User Map (Digg Swarm Knockoff)
September 23rd, 2006
I was doing some investigating on Microsoft’s Japanese Xbox site today, and stumbled across this cool feature called the “UserMap.”
Much like Digg Swarm, the Flash-based application produces a very slick real-time map of player activity on Xbox Live. From what I could tell, you can also search for games or user profiles meeting specific criteria. The usermap even allows you to view personal profile information including reputation, gamerscore and nickname, their location, sex and age, favorite game genre and occupation. I’m assuming privacy advocates would have a field day with this in the U.S., so maybe that’s why we didn’t get this feature.
A translated version of the help page for the usermap can be seen here.
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so.. um Do thay Have Chines playes jest asking Lol?
Huh?
Does any one know how digg does those google ads so they are just one large one at the top?
Jump on to any digg article to see what i mean (cant post links yet)
Dorian: Those are highly customized Google Adsense ads. If you generate enough business for Google (I’m guessing in the thousands of dollars per day), they’ll work with you to better integrate with your site.
If you’re among the lowly masses like us, you can only modify font colors, border, background color and choose an ad size.