TagCloud – Create Your Own TagCloud From Any Text
http://tagcrowd.com/

TagCrowd is a web application for visualizing word frequencies in any user-supplied text by creating what is popularly known as a tag cloud or text cloud. It was created by Daniel Steinbock, a doctoral student in Design and Education at Stanford University. Today, text clouds are primarily used for navigation and visualization on Web 2.0 sites that employ user-generated metadata (tags) as a categorization scheme. (Flickr is a good example.) TagCrowd is doing something different. When you look at a text cloud, you see not only an informative, beautiful image that communicates much in a single glance, you see a whole new perspective on text. TagCrowd is taking tag clouds far beyond their original function: a) as topic summaries for speeches and written works, b) as blog tool or website analysis for search engine optimization (SEO), c) for visual analysis of survey data, d) as brand clouds that let companies see how they are perceived by the world, e) for data mining a text corpus, f) for helping writers and students reflect on their work, g) as name tags for conferences, cocktail parties or wherever new collaborations start, h) as resumes in a single glance, and i) as visual poetry. The list goes on and continues to grow. In the future, TagCrowd will develop into a suite of experimental tools and tutorials that empower social and collaborative uses for text clouds and related visualizations. Their mission is to push the innovation envelope in online and face-to-face communities of all stripes. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.