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.