Update, 15 October 2012: you couldn’t say it’s gone quiet on the Pinterest front, but things have moved on a little, and there’s a stealth action in the growing adoption of a pinboard layout for home pages. Don’t mind that actually. And there’s a bunch of potentially useful links at the foot of this post. [...]
Wordle is weirdly popular. From Tracy Playle’s Wordle review: You can dump in a random selection of text to create beautiful word clouds. You can manipulate the word clouds, changing the size of words, the colours, fonts and layouts. I’ve seen these used in marketing and communications, and also seen them used regularly in reports [...]
Update, 26 April 2012: other timeline tools are available, including Danish startup Memolane, Timekiwi (see the Journalism.co.uk review) and the handily named Timeline. Lots of articles about Timeline (Mashable | Journalism.co.uk | The Event Amplifier | mashup from MASHe), which compare it to Storify, not sure why. Doesn’t have a drag n drop interface (fine by me, [...]