Digg Lab's Provides Real-Time Visualization of Traffic

I was going through my usual bored at work routine and came across some interesting content from digg. In a sense you could say that it isn't new content per say but more or less a visual representation of the normal digg content implemented in flash. digg labs has implemented four separate tools so I will go briefly over what they are.

stack

The first tool, called stack, displays a row of current stories from digg. The number of diggs for each story is presented as a bar graph, with the height and color of the bar representing the number of diggs for that particular article. Quite quickly you can watch stories gain diggs as they fall from the top of the screen.

swarm

The next tool on the list is called swarm, and is quite possibly my favorite. Swarm presents each story as a circle. Digg users then become attached to these stories, forming surprise, surprise, as swarm. As new users digg these articles these swarms grow and these clusters grow. As time goes on these diggs go away. This is a very interesting way to watch the latest happenings on digg.

bigspy

Bigspy is my least favorite, and quite possibly the least imaginative of the utilities from digglabs. As stories are digged their headline appears at the top of the screen. The size of the headline is based on the number of diggs, the count of which appears to the right of the headline. Not much else to say about this one.

arc

Digglab's newest visualization is appears as a circle, and is possibly the hardest to accurately describe. Stories appear in the center, and change through time, while new articles are added around the edge of the circle. I guess this gets the job done, but to me arc definitely isn't anywhere near as exciting as stack or swarm.

Has anyone else used these, what do you think about them?