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What does TechCrunch talk about? [Pic! Visualization!]August 4
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The wordle.net obsession continues. Here is the word tag of the last 1000 posts from TechCrunch.

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Google, Yahoo, new, Network, users, Facebook, video, search, Crunch, "sexiest", people, social, Twitter, iPhone, Applications, MobileCrunch.

That is what this visualization tells me. What does it tell you? Comment?


What do Louis Gray, Thomas Hawk, Duncan Riley, Cyndy and Mona talk about on FriendFeed?August 2
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I ‘discovered’ wordle.net a few days ago and have been having fun with it ever since. And now that FriendFeed has increased the number of items we can see from 300 to 900, thought I’ll mash up both together and bring you word clouds of the last 900 comments of some popular FriendFeeders. This is round one – expect a new round every other day :)

Louis Gray (FriendFeed)

The One. The dude whose original "List of A-Listers on FriendFeed" pretty much drove adoption of FF. Oh, and I have a habit of naming scripts after people (something that’s come back and bit me more than once when I go searching for long lost scripts), so the Script that produces data for this post is called PinkGray.


The Real Steve Gillmor - Wordle VisualizationAugust 1
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Pardon my recent obsession with Steve Gillmor. This one is a wordle.net generated Tag-mash of all the words Steve Gillmor has used since he started writing for TechCrunch/TechCrunch IT. Anything strikes you? Comments?

P.S. Anybody interested in sponsoring The Statbot on a monthly basis? Anyone?


FriendFeed Sucks, Twitter rocks, Mesh, TwitterSpy and Dave Winer - Software Generated Steve GillmorJuly 31
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(This guest post is brought to you by MarkovChain.rb with Steve Gillmor’s posts as input. We call him Software Generated Steve Gillmor (aka SGSG). We return to our regular unscheduled program (ofcourse, unless you want this done again(to other people!). Inspired by Duncan Riley’s Fake Steve Gillmor)

We agree to ignore the pedestrian nature of breathing in and out that underlies everything. Twitter has in recent days shown the ability to manage such peaks though the overall flow does not yet match the peak of Twittermania that lead to the collapse and reworking on the basic systems. 

FriendFeed may have gathered a third of Microsoft’s forthcoming Mesh architecture. Twitterspy is therefore vulnerable on several levels. It would be the interrupt, some input device that triggers a disruption that moves resources to process the incoming data or a timer like object internally that wakes up and commands processes to predetermined or calcul


Google Reader Shared Items Leaderboards - Round IJuly 30
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Louis Gray appears to have kick started a meme of sorts by posting his personal Google Reader leaderboard. So here is the leaderboard for last 1000 items shared by some of the popular friendfeeders in no particular order - if you want yours, just leave a comment and I’ll post it :) This is just round one - I’ll keep posting more.

Rob Diana

…who *won* first place in Sarah’s leaderboard ;)

  1. ReadWriteWeb - 0.141% (141 posts)
  2. Mashable! - 0.109% (109 posts)
  3. TechCrunch - 0.09% (90 posts)
  4. louisgray.com -