Word cloud also known as tag cloud is a generated tags based on the words of a web site. In other words, we can say that it is a visual picture of a web site.
Wordle is a free web application to create word cloud. It has the capability to create word cloud from a bunch of pasted text, from a blog or web site with Atom or RSS feed enabled, and from del.icio.us user tags.
Figure 1 shows an example of word cloud of this site, created with Wordle.
Figure 1: Example of word cloud created with Wordle
According to Wordle, word cloud created with Wordle can be used for anything, even if you are making profit of it, as long as the credit goes back to http://www.wordle.net/. Images created by the Wordle.net web application are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License. Examples of usage include book cover, t-shirt or even as blog header like the one used by WordPress Foundation blog, which was made public today. Read WordPress Foundation first article.
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