Loic Le Meur Vid Discusses Social Maps

Loic Le Meur just pointed me in the direction of his Seesmic du Jour video from yesterday where he discussed the social map conversation he sparked on the web over the weekend. Some pretty interesting insights. Not only will news find you in this day and age, but I’d argue it isn’t really news until its discussed, dissected and analyzed by the blogosphere. It’s interesting that traditional journalism is so threatened by new media, when in fact it’s job is even more important now that it was 50 years ago. All because traditional journalism still kicks off the conversation a majority of the time.

Christopher Herot’s Social Map

In doing my graph, I tried to capture the connections among the various services that I use. I’m sure I didn’t get all of them, but the exercise illustrates the complexity of the connections. One thing I noticed is that Twitter, Facebook, and my blog have the most connections and for me, Twitter is the most useful, having displaced Facebook as the place I look for what my friends are doing.

I’ve written more on this at herot.typepad.com.

Ben Ullman’s Social Map

I’ve made a map of all places I create content or maintain a profile, and grouped them into basic categories. I’d like to do some additional connectors, to indicate flow of content from place to place (eg: stories shared on Google reader get populated into a feed on my site and my Facebook profile) but I haven’t taken it that far yet. I did add some color coding, to indicate the frequency and level of involvement I have at each site. (Click the image to see the whole thing.)

Oh crap. Now that I’m contributing to this site, I may have to add it on my map.

There’s a little bit more commentary on the original post on my blog.

Social Links For April 1/08

Like I said in my post yesterday and will continue to say: this is a user-run site.  I don’t have the time to actually post to it on a daily basis, although I can post your social graphs if you wish.  What I will try to do is post links to all the relevant posts to social graphing/mapping I come across daily.  So for today:

• Designing Online Social Networks: The Theories Of Social Groups 
• The Identity Report 
• Download Squad talks Data Portability at SXSW 
• Smart Aggregation is the Solution to Blogorrhea 
•  I want my blog to be the aggregator
• The Aggregated Me
• The many faces of Data Portability 
• Esoteric fun with Friendfeed data 
• Beyond Blogs: The Conversation Is Moved Into The Flow 

Good reading!

Guilhem Bertholet’s Social Map

We’ve finally drummed up some interest for this social graph project.  Here’s Guilhem Bertholet’s social map.  Thanks Guilhem!

Get Your Data Out-A Data Portability Rock Song

Thought this song by Danny Ayers, “Get Your Data Out” about data portability was definitely a humorously applicable addition to our site.

Via CenterNetworks

Bringing Our Social Graphs To A Central Location: Upload Yours Here

Loic Le Meur’s Social Graph

A blog post by Seesmic founder Loic Le Meur yesterday discussing his decentralized social graph including the likes of Friendfeed and Twitter sparked an idea that has led to this blog. Ultimately Le Meur said, “that while I really like all my services gathered in one place, I would rather that these would be centralized on my blog instead of a third party service”, probably referring to Friendfeed which aggregates most top social network feeds into one giant feed.

Le Meur’s observation began an online conversation that has lasted for most of the weekend with the likes of Stowe Boyd, Brian Solis and Mike Arrington bringing their two cents to the mix.

Brian Solis’ Social Graph

Click on the above links to get the back story for now, although I’ll try to discuss it in more detail here over the next few days. Right now what I’d like to do is open this blog up to those interested in uploading their social graphs and any interpretations they may like to leave. That way we’ll end up with a user-generated (for lack of a better term) blog full of social graphs that hopefully we’ll be able to use to further the conversation regarding the decentralization of our content and ourselves on the internet. I’m a big believer in your personal blog being your central hub on the web and all third party services an efficient way to syndicate your blog but ultimately bringing all roads back to the original blog in the end. It seems in these days of web 2.0 it’s the other way around. Let’s get some insight into this trend.

If you’d like to upload your social graph to Social Graph Central, email me at juskai at shaw dot ca and I’ll add you as a contributor to the blog so you’ll have free reign to contribute to the conversation of social centralization… in one central place.