Cheap EVRI Knockoff on the Huffington Post

Is it just me, or does the connections widget on the left column of this page look suspiciously like EVRI’s widget.  When I saw it, I thought it was EVRI’s work.  The colored circles, the topic name in a box on top of the circle, lines between them, the size ratio, the line color, all the same.  But there’s no Evri branding, it doesn’t make a call to the Evri site to fetch data as the WashPo installation does.  So I don’t think its EVRI.  They’re using OpenCalais for local news, could be their tagging, or it could be human tagging with a simple database to power the widget.  Who knows, but it would be better if they were a bit more distinctive in the presentation.  It is confusingly similar to EVRI’s widget.

Judge for yourself.  Here’s a screen shot of the HuffPo widget:

And here’s the Evri widget as it appears on their site:

Samuel Clay, one of the crew here at Daylife, says EVRI uses SVG/Raphael, and the HuffPo is just images, so it is a different technology and almost certainly not EVRI’s work.