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Building your own desktop Twitter client - Twitter API » Own Business — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 21:20:12 +0000

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By: Steve Ellwood

Steve Ellwood — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 13:26:53 +0000

Liked this when I first saw it, and when I saw tweetclouds.com I immediately thought of it. John K’s beaten me to the comment though. I’d tweeted about tweetclouds, so I’ve added a pointer back here.

By: John Krutsch

John Krutsch — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 15:52:29 +0000

check out http://tweetclouds.com it does something very similar to this.

By: Housekeeping

Housekeeping — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 03:07:59 +0000

[…] is already very large. It matters little as you can still @jowyang and I’ll see your message. Sam Lawrence did analysis on my Twitter behavior (even on a Sunday) and noticed that about half of my tweets are @replying to […]

By: Jeremiah Owyang

Jeremiah Owyang — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 23:18:09 +0000

Thanks for including me in on this, sorry it stole your day away from you.

By: Ben Tremblay

Ben Tremblay — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 19:21:14 +0000

Re: ““real” tag clouds based on actual content instead of …” A noble sentiment!

A couple of days ago (yesterday?) Peter Westwood released a cloud of contributers to WordPress 2.5. Brilliantly parsimonious, yes? (I would have left the numbers off *shrug*>) What I saw as absent is how the cloud could be used as an interface / portal to richer information. (For me most everything is a dashboard … “mandala theory”, doncha know.)

I visited TagCrowd.com … *plop-plop fizz-fizz* after providing the URL for my project’s quasi-bibliography I became the proud father of a sweet/primitive data-based cloud. (I’ve tweaked the font sizes there; TagCrowd really should offer min/max as a configuration item.)
All of this is great fun. But … where’s the beef?
It’s cute. And it’s totally dead-ended. (Tranform a “silo” into a planter so as to allow the tree to shoot up out of it?)

I’m reminded of my first sessions using PsychLit; with so much functionality, there just has to be a way of having it jump up and make toast. I optimized my PsychLit searches and was handsomely rewarded.
Looking at clouds, pondering VRML and visualizations of multivariate analysis, I can’t help thinking that we’re just one step away from some very richly interactive information.

My point is this: ATM clouds seem to me to be data, rather than information. I suspect we will be handsomely rewarded when we transform them by enriching them with another layer of interactivity. Or two.

I can see a way of using them as ?what? a partial product … the interim step in a process that finds who’s like who, or which document is like which others … comparing clouds in a cloudy sky, if you will. (”CloudySky” … a good name for a software suite?)

By: Brent

Brent — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 18:56:50 +0000

……if only there was a way to track how many times a user changes their icon/pic/avatar… you’d be surprised how much of an obsession that is with some people…… “of course” i’m not talking about someone from this post
;0
-b

By: sam

sam — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 17:54:16 +0000

@Sharon- Sorry, i could see how it’s confusing. The first cloud is actually from the post I did analyzing these people’s blogs. The last two clouds are from me looking at their tweets (the only difference is whether it’s one word or two word tweet clouds).

By: JP

JP — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 17:17:46 +0000

Sam, thanks a lot. I feel you’ve done well with the range of people you’ve chosen, the three of us have quite different styles. I need to think about the implications; I wouldn’t go so far as to say there are conclusions to draw, but I found the exercise insightful. thanks for doing it.

By: Sharon

Sharon — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 17:13:33 +0000

I know a bunch of social psychologists who would be highly intrigued. Great idea Sam. A question in regards to the clouds: as someone who has not used Tweetclouds yet, there look to be three clouds per person. What are the reasons for the three clouds and what is the differential in the data per tweetcloudset?