We think a lot about the Web. Mostly, we try to imagine new ways to interact and visualize the data we find on it. E15, for example, is a way to allow end users to take a step away from the browser and take it apart, one div at a time.

I’m often surprised at how thinking about the web in this way feels so new and unexplored. A lot of people I know seem to be so comfortable with the browser that they can’t imagine anything that could enhance their web experience in any way. We here at BuzaMoto are still taking steps at trying to change that.

In my most recent attempt at creating a new vantage point from which to view web data, I’ve recruited the Sunflow global illumination renderer, thousands of lines of C and Python, and hundreds of hours of CPU time to create a few visualizations of web data “outside” of the browser. The visualization above, for example, is a collection of data from various web sources (Flickr, Delicious, Google, Facebook, and Twitter), affiliated with myself (or user name), all piled up. The end result is a summary of the data I interact with on the web on a daily basis, put into perspective. What sometimes feels so large and formidible is actually rather small when viewed from the right angle. Maybe if everyone was able to see their own data in this way, they would realize how thin and shallow many of the Web 2.0 social networking sites are.

I’m currently in the process of trying to make this happen. I’d really like to streamline this process and make these visualizations accessible to everyone that wishes to see them.

In the meantime, check out the “Piles of Web Data” Flickr set that I’ve created to host my most recent creations.