Luca Hammer

Visualization of the people I follow on Twitter. Made with twecoll and Gephi.

Austria and Germany, mostly people who tweet in German are very well connected but they are still clearly separated. In red the startup scene, strongly interconnected but with few connections with the German scene.

The nodes that are farther away from the rest have many followers but follow few people.

Next I would like to see how the graph changes if I add interaction data like mentions and maybe tweets in general. Maybe even add a third dimension to show more data. But first I have to figure out how to reliable track mentions over a week.

New tumblr post chooser. Looks like Path set a new standard. I like it. Fast and easy.

Network visualization of more than 2000 German bloggers for my project http://blognetz.com (soon launching in English)

I’m not sure how to feel about this. I like some things that Mayer says and does. Yahoo is still one of the big players and thousands of smaller ones are built upon some of their APIs. Even Apple uses their weather API.

The big question is what tumblr gets out of the deal. Do they need cash? Integration into other services? More ads? I don’t see any benefits yet but I may be wrong.

stoweboyd:

I am finding that Disqus style comments are increasingly out of step on Tumblr. The overwhelming majority of interaction here is native Tumblr reposting, likes, and replies.

If you are a Tumblr non-user, I suggest you get an account and try it. Here’s a post where I describe how rich the ‘inside view’ is at Tumblr.

If you’d like to chat with me about something posted here you can try @stoweboyd on Twitter, click on the ‘contact me’ or ‘ask me anything’ in the right hand margin. 

I never thought about it in that way. I am a big fan of comments. On the other hand it is true that most of the conversations are happening elsewhere. Facebook is probably on top of the list and has the big problem that I can’t access most of the interactions because they are happening outside of my reach on private profiles.

When I still used WordPress I tried different approaches to get at least the public interactions, mostly twitter, back on the page. But it is really hard, because the replies to a tweet with the link are more important than the tweet with the link itself and harder to get. Maybe I can find or create a solution that shows such things similar to the interactions like notes and likes on tumblr.

Maybe I have to accept that the things that happen around my post are temporarily and it’s not possible to archive everything. Tumblr itself will change and one day all the notes and reblogs may be gone. That isn’t much different to self hosted blogs that go down one day. Because the author doesn’t care anymore, went on or even died.

Best music video. Ever*.

*from the first music video until today, 13.05.2013.

I spent hundreds of hours creating and customizing themes for my WordPress blog. When I started my English blog and choose tumblr for it, one of the reason was to tinker less with the system and more with the content. And it worked. Until now. I want something responsive and minimal. Here is the selection I made over the last days. I probably will switch around between them for some time until I am able do decide which one I like best. If you know other great themes, let me know.

Ashly

Bricolage

Euphony Responsive

svbtle tumblr theme

Banshee

Nocturnal

The Pragmatist

I needed some distractions. Wanted to learn new things on the side. Then it exploded and now I have to rearrange things.

The weekend project grew even further and we just launched it’s website. Over 100 signups in the first hour. Right now we focus on german speaking blogs but are open to making it international.

Another weekend project. This time I built an interactive visualization of Austrian bloggers. The description is in german, feel free to ask me any questions.

First I just wanted to play around with the new Vine embedding code. But then I built a simple search engine.

It fetches vines from Twitter and therefore allows all search operators that work there too.

I hope you like it.

http://www.2-blog.net/projects/vine

davemorin:

Foundation: Dave Morin on Maintaining Genuine Relationships Via Social Networks (by revision3)

Great video. Dave talks about his time at college and how he made his first money through web design. How he got in contact with Apple. About moving to Silicon Valley and his manifesto what Apple should change. That got him into the hiring process and after one day of interviews he was hired for a marketing position. Worked there for 3,5 years. Most important learning there: focus. When you launch something new, focus on 1 thing. Also: 3 key messages work best. It is easy to say no to things with low priority. It is important to say no to important things. He joined Facebook when the had just a few million users and where in the transition from a college network to global. Facebook was all about openness in the company. Everything was known by everyone. Mark is very competitive. Social utility. The special thing about tagging was the ability of the 20% who uploaded photos put them into the profiles of the other 80%. Launching Facebook Connect for iOS was Dave’s “My work here is done” moment. Inspiration for Path was last.fm, he wanted to create a ‘life scrobbler’. He never talked to his girlfriend over Facebook. On facebook he did several social experiments with sharing personal content. 5 people in your life who are your best friends. 15 people that are really close to you and you want to spend time with. 50 that you trust. Think in circles, 5 are part of the 15, 15 of the 50. When they started with 50 the median network hat 15 people. When they switched to 150 it went to 50. We are in the Social DOS era. So much to come in the next ten years. “By technology barrier I mostly speak about battery limits.”. Most things should be recorded automatically. Where we are, with whom we are and stuff like that. Dave likes how Momo works, it’s similar to highlight but makes a difference between bars, coffees and work spaces. The plan is to grow Path 5x per year over the next 3 years. Design, Quality, Trust are important.

Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.