Patent ID: 8250474

Claim:
A computer implemented method for displaying content on an online resource, the method being performed by one or more processors and comprising: monitoring multiple network category or topic specific resources that individually provide content that pertains to a particular topic or category, wherein monitoring the multiple network resources includes identifying, on each of the multiple network resources, instances of activity corresponding to when content items of the network resource are (i) viewed by persons, (ii) provided by persons, and/or (iii) programmatically identified from other network resources; detecting a user selection of a specific link; in response to the user selection of the specific link, providing an interactive chronology display with each category or topic specific network resource in order to depict by chronology, to viewers of the network resource, an amount of the instances of activity on that network resource, at defined chronological intervals, in displaying content items of the category or topic; wherein providing the interactive chronology display includes, on the chronology display provided with each network resource, providing at least some of the plurality of intervals with a characteristic or value that is indicative of a number of instances of activity for that network resource during the time period that corresponds to that interval.