Yahoo Mail has launched a slick new data visualization feature that shows what keywords are trending in email across the whole Yahoo network. I haven't quite figured out how to use it, but it's still fun to look at.The folks over at Fast Company's Co. Design were pretty quick to apply their interpretation to the ever-changing river of data: "Note the presence of 'vaga'--presumably, that's a wave of spam about viagra that's striking out across the network". They then go on to extrapolate that the variations on the spellings of Viagra must number in the sextillions, fittingly enough.
Another fun figure: every second, hundreds of thousands of new Yahoo mail accounts are created. For what ends? Probably to put out more spelling permutations of Viagra. And so the cycle begins anew.
