Another Way To Look At Terms Of Service Agreements: Wordle Visualizations

Robin Wauters

Robin Wauters is the European Editor of tech blog The Next Web and lead editor of Virtualization.com. He was a senior staff writer at TechCrunch until his departure in February 2012. Aside from his professional blogging activities, he’s an entrepreneur, event organizer, occasional board adviser and angel investor but most importantly an all-round startup champion. Wauters lives and works in... → Learn More

Sunday, February 22nd, 2009

This is what you get when you use a slick tool like Wordle (try it!) to run all the words used to make up the Terms of Service agreements of seven notable internet companies: cool visualizations that somewhat capture the essence of their content.

Pointless? Very. Cool? Definitely.

Here’s how Facebook‘s Terms of Use agreement comes out (at least for now):

Yahoo (Terms of Service)

Digg (Terms of Use)

Google (Terms of Service)

Twitter (Terms of Service)

MySpace (Terms of Use)

YouTube (Terms of Service)

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