Hmmm… you are right, I really should go on with mag­net, as it is my favorite project. Two things are actu­ally in the pipeline:
Total code rewrit­ing by the use of a graph visu­al­iza­tion frame­work — I took a look at http://code.google.com/p/birdeye/ (using Touch­Graph algo­rithms, but still quite low per­for­mance in my opin­ion) and into http://mark-shepherd.com/SpringGraph/ (using Touch­Graph algo­rithms as well, very fast, but did not use any inter­faces, there­fore it is quite hard to extend with­out rewrit­ing the code). So finally, I did not find some proper solu­tion yet to start over towards pro­to­type v1. If there is any­thing else worth con­sid­er­ing, let me know!
Sec­ond thread is some project from my job at Uni­ver­sity of Trento, Lib­Swb (paper, poster), which I will try to use as a back-end for mag­net… or mag­net as a front-end for Lib­Swb — just as you like it .
Fur­ther­more, I hope to get a new col­league to help me devel­op­ing on the Lib­Swb part. This would really free time to go on with mag­net and finally go into a sec­ond round of usage, use­ful­ness and usabil­ity eva­lu­tion… I could have made a post out of this .
So I am really will­ing to go on an post more, hope­fully my boss will hire a com­bat­ant to speed this up a little.