Backbars on social link-sites

By elzr — Last update Jun 29, 2009 — Installed 1,352 times. Daily Installs: 6, 3, 4, 3, 3, 3, 3, 2, 3, 4, 3, 2, 2, 3, 2, 2, 2, 3, 6, 2, 5, 3, 3, 3, 2, 2, 4, 2, 4, 2, 6, 3
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Turn the headlines and comments of social link-sites (reddit, delicious, digg...) into ambient bar-charts.

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Turn the headlines and comments of social link-sites into ambient bar-charts.

It works on Reddit, Delicious, Digg, Hacker News, and Stack Overflow (and Metafilter now!). The idea is to provide subtle non-verbal clues to improve your browsing experience almost subconsciously.

Please visit http://elzr.com/posts/backbars-on-social-link-s... for more details and screenshots



Changelog:
June 12, 2009: Stopped messing Hacker News' comment threading sometimes.
June 12, 2009: Added support for MetaFilter! Made comment author backbars more accurate.
Jun2 29, 2009: Made backbars' height always one line. Added related-tags and user-tags on Delicious. Now supports the hackerne.ws and news.ycombinator.org domains.
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