Liveplasma

I always enjoy finding some clever tools or technology that inspires me. Liveplasma is the latest one and it is particularly useful for mashups of all kinds. The examples given are mapping an initial search of a piece of music, an artist, a movie with similar or related topics. Here is an example of a search by musicians. Chuck Loeb is one of my favorite guitarists, and the mapping of similar music by other artists is actually very accurate and pretty much reflects my CD collection. (Yes, I still have lots of CDs).

Now consider Liveplasma as a navigation tool for, let's pick my own industry, research documents, topics, analysts, vendors. Wouldn't it be cool to jump from vendor X to topic Y to analyst Z and back to another vendor? Or think about a vendors web site about products (e.g., printers or software): search by product name, and get an instant mapping of related drivers, updates, ink cartridges, distributors, user's guides. The options are endless, for example, CNET has used it to map its news.