Comments on: Tweetclouds reveal even more about people

By: Twitter, In Other Words « Amybeth Hale - Research Goddess

Twitter, In Other Words « Amybeth Hale - Research Goddess — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 02:18:19 +0000

[...] on what we’re reading or linking to), and potentially parses things like resources.” – Sam Lawrence, Go Big Always Possibly related posts: (automatically generated)Is Twitter Overrated?Twitters Terms of Service = [...]

By: Building your own desktop Twitter client - Twitter API » Own Business

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
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-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.