How do I say this without sounding self-serving? Maybe I can't, so I'll go ahead in the interest of ideas and improvement. MyIdeaTree.com does most of what they are requesting with the exception of two things:
1) import from NodeXL - actually, this was suggested to me last February and I've just been putting it off, while thinking on whether to do it or the .dot format.
2) large graphs in a browser - I've limited graph sizes to what is easily visible in a browser and because large graphs are computation-intensive. But since I'm on a grid system that may not be the big deal I think it is. If anyone would like to experiment I'm willing to give it a try. If it is, installation of MyIdeaTree on one's own server would solve that issue. I'd need to enable zoom.
All the other stuff they mention, no Flash or Java, colors, mouseovers, shared interactivity, export to zoom-able,clickable image (actually a .pdf), HTML embedding, programmatic graphing via API, etc., are either already there or available in the underlying system but not exposed yet in the UI for reasons of keeping the UI simple. One difference: their demo opens a sidebar when clicking a node, M.I.T. opens a new window with whatever URL is associated with that node.
Other things are possible, like layered maps. Just waiting for someone to ask.
Ron
On Sat, Sep 8, 2012 at 7:30 PM, Tom Johnson
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Taking on some practical, serious needs.
http://blogs.oii.ox.ac.uk/vis/?p=9
-tom johnson
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