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Dave Troy, the founder of twittervision, a service that lets you visualize twitter stream has now launched a new service called Flickrvision that does the same thing to Flickr photos.

If you dont know by now, twittervision is a twitter visualization service that takes your twitter userid and password and allows you to view who are posting on twitter right now, where they are located by moving Google Maps to that location, and also displays what they are saying. You could also add your twits to twittervision by setting your location on the service and can also make posts on twitter right from your twittervision page. Mine is here.

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Google has just announced that they have acquired Trendalyzer software, created by Sweden based analytics firm Gapminder.

Trendalyzer “unveils the beauty of statistics by converting boring numbers into enjoyable interactive animations”. It is yet to be known where Google intends to use Trendalyzer, but speculations are that it will be used to augment Google Analytics. The Trendalyzer team will be leaving for Mountain View, where they will be working on improvements and scaling of the product, which Google might launch for free to the rest of us. Trendalyzer could be of more value than just spicing up Google Analytics as it can improve any function or application in which data might be better visualized.

KoolTorch is a patented technology that lets you visualize your search based on categorization and clustering of the underlying data.

Typical search results retrieve web pages based primarily on the number of pages linking to them. This definitely is not pertinent in all cases and for all users. KoolTorch retrieves the results and present them in a multi-level graphical format with 100 or more results displayed in a single page.

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