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Welcome Back Wordle… Plus 7 Other Free Word Cloud Generators! | 21 st Century Educational Technology and Learning

Word Clouds have caught the attention of the country and have become a part of the 21st Century classroom. http://21centuryedtech.wordpress.com/2010/02/28/waiting-for-wordle-free-word-cloud-options-to-use-now/
Dur­ing 2006, tag clouds moved beyond their well-known role as nav­i­ga­tion mech­a­nisms and indi­ca­tors of activ­ity within social media expe­ri­ences, emerg­ing as a stan­dard visu­al­iza­tion tech­nique for texts and tex­tual data in gen­eral. This use of tag clouds does not com­monly involve tags , social net­works , emer­gent archi­tec­tures , folk­sonomies , or meta­data . http://www.joelamantia.com/tag-clouds/text-clouds-a-new-form-of-tag-cloud

Text Clouds: A New Form of Tag Cloud? — Joe Lamantia.com

Wordle - Beautiful Word Clouds

Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. http://www.wordle.net/
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/342687/algorithm-to-implement-a-word-cloud-like-wordle I was looking for a wordle-like visualization which would allow to assign color, initial position and size of a String related to other data, such as the relevance within a text - didn't find anything, but thanks to the information I found here (Especially Jonathan's explanation and aeby's link), I could finally implement ' Cloudio ', which comes relatively close to wordle (at least I think so...) and offers the features I was looking for.

layout - Algorithm to implement a word cloud like Wordle - Stack Overflow

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7 Fun, Free Tag Cloud Software Programs to Create Word Art

Tag clouds are those boxes of words that you sometimes see on blogs and social networking websites . The words are a collection of the words most commonly used in whatever parameters set forth by the tag cloud. For example, you might make a tag cloud of all of the most popular words used in your blog posts in the past month. http://kathrynvercillo.hubpages.com/hub/10-Fun-Free-Tag-Cloud-Programs-to-Create-Word-Art