Rhizosphere is amongst us! Rhizosphere is my most recent project and is an innovative approach to help you navigate and filter through your data. Lightweight, web-based, intuitive, its purpose is to provide a simple but effective way to flow through your data, isolate them, filter them and help you locate that information that you know it’s there, but it’s lost amidst the noise.

It’s 100% pure HTML and JS, no Flash, no Java, no Silverlight, no plugins. You just need your browser.

The Rhizosphere project focuses both on traditional and innovative ways to browse through data:

• A desktop like metaphor, with Selections and Drag’n’Drop
• Zooming
• Dynamic Filtering
• Data layouting
• Data fetching and remoting
• Interoperability with multiple sources
• Color coding and information clouds

The project focuses on merging together the benefits of the desktop metaphor with the ubiquity and flexibilty of a web based approach. Rhizosphere integrates with other technologies and can be used to navigate your data inside Google Docs and Google Gadgets.

On the technical side, the whole project is open-source and available for everybody to look at it and modify it. And, by the way, it’s less than 30kb of Javascript, 100kb including external dependencies.

Some links:

• The project website
• The Source code
• The project documentation

To get started, take a look at this video that embeds Rhizosphere in a Google spreadsheet and uses its capabilities to filter through the data.