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If you are a user, SpicyNodes helps you to:

• Navigate large amounts of complex information in a structured and yet intuitive fashion.
• Rapidly achieve a perfunctory grasp of a new topic or subject area without having to read through pages of text.
• Gain insight into familiar topics by looking at them in new ways at multiple levels of a hierarchy or a network.
• Find needed information much faster than search engines by following a navigational path through meaningful node interconnections.
• Find the information you need even if you’re not sure what you are looking for, by discovering the connections between different pieces of data.
• Choose what you want know about a subject without having to read through what you already know.
• Browse information, morsel by morsel, and intuitively learn more about a topic.
• Explore information in a spatial, pictorial, and non-linear ways.
• Focus on a data segment without losing the context of its relationships.
• View data at the desired level of detail with a continuous path available from a "bird’s eye view" to an "ant’s eye view."
• Drill down through a hierarchy or traverse a network of relationships by using the links provided in the nodemap. You eliminate the need to constantly refer to a list of contents.
• View related text and images stored in other locations on the Web.
• Interact with nodemaps in a natural animated environment that is smooth and intuitive.
• Interact with nodemaps using familiar click-and-drag methods.

If you are a designer, SpicyNodes allows you to:

• Be extremely flexible in your style, creating an innovative design or a design that is tightly integrated with your current style.
• Make different aspects of data and the relationships among the data units visually intelligible by mixing, matching, and customizing a wide array of design and styling features.
• Provide non-linear, spatially-oriented users who won’t read lengthy text with an alternative way to navigate information and be drawn into a site.
• Augment a web site that has long narratives by providing an "information map" overview of the site’s content.
• Tempt users to spend time browsing the site by providing them with morsels of information.
• Discover and identify new relationships between different components of your design.
• Personalize the appearance of your nodes at the desired level of detail. You can either create every element in your own style or simply choose your settings on two continuums: clean to complex and synthetic to organic.
• Personalize the appearance of your nodes at your level of programming expertise, either through a intuitive Web interface or by manipulating configuration files.
• Expand the semantics of your nodes by connecting them to content available at other locations on the Internet.

If you are a developer, SpicyNodes provides you with:

• Detailed instructions, examples, APIs, and configuration tools that ease development.
• The ability to create nodemaps at your desired level of complexity, from the simplest applications deployable within days to extensively customized and personalized products.
• The ability to display dynamic data in your nodemaps without the need for updates.
• The capability to programmatically interface with other objects on your web site.
• The opportunity to leverage the power and simplicity of XML and HTTP.
• The flexibility to interface with virtually any kind of application server environment, owing to the fact that SpicyNodes uses industry standard technology.

If you are a software vendor, SpicyNodes fosters:

• The opportunity to create new, innovative products with ease and rapidity.
• The opportunity to add value to and showcase existing products.
• Improved customer communication through accessible visual presentation of complex product information.
• Improved data mining and better utilization of existing information resources.
• Increased efficiency and drastically shortened time lag between conceiving products and bringing them to market.
• A broadened market segment, resulting from the ability to map a wide variety of industrial and educational data and to interface with a large array of standard technologies.