Brenda Young

flowerGarden is an web-based software application, produced in Flash, for real-time social network and conversation visualization. It was used at the 3-day Bodies in Play summit in Banff, May 2005, at which the 50 participants were invited to input information about who they spoke to and what they discussed during the duration of the event. The visualization was projected on a large screen in the main summit venue to reflect the current state of the social network and discussion space of the summit. - Brenda Young

"The looks del.icio.us project is my first attempt to combine graphics design with programming. The concept is to see how users develop and sustain their tagging methodologies on del.icio.us. I'm not a formal art student or have a computer science degree. I'm just curious" - Brenda Young

2009 will be an unprecedented time for workers in the US, with many people losing their jobs through no fault of their own. This will ripple economically to other countries as well. No one’s really safe. I wanted to offer some ideas ahead of the mess. -Chris Brogan has written Using the Social Web to Find Work as a free ebook for you to download and share with others. - Brenda Young

lets you "monitter" the twitter world for a set of 3 keywords and watch what people are saying - Brenda Young

It takes a village - a critical mass of interesting people - to read and write to. When my brain started to connect with the brains (and hearts) of others, it got really, REALLY cool for me. You may be looking for like minds, or you may want to be totally shaken up by new ideas. Both work. - Brenda Young

The 1st Social Data on the Web workshop (SDoW2008) co-located with the 7th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2008) aims to bring together researchers, developers and practitioners involved in semantically-enhancing social media websites, as well as academics researching more formal aspect of these interactions between the Semantic Web and Social Media. It opens new research areas for the Semantic Web which has an important role to play to lead to the emergence of a Social Semantic Web that should provide novel services to end-users, combining the best of both Semantic Web and Web 2.0 worlds. To achieve this goal, various tasks and features are needed from data modeling and lightweight ontologies, to knowledge and social networks portability as well as ways to interlink data between Social Media websites, leveraging proprietary data silos to a Giant Global Graph. - Brenda Young

Find out when people decide to unfollow you. - Brenda Young

Strauss and Howe look at generations as having a distinct point of view from previous generations. They come to the conclusion that generations come in cycles. “Just as history produces generations, so too do generations produce history.” The authors label the four generational types Idealist, Reactive, Civic and Adaptive, always recurring in a fixed order. Strauss and Howe suggest that the passage of four generations completes a full generational cycle over four 22-year phases of life, roughly ninety years. These cycles are predictable and repetitive. - Brenda Young

Great presentation done in 2003 talking about group dynamics, why social networking has become so popular now, and considerations for online groups and applications. - Brenda Young

Hi Sarah, Great review of BlogOrlando from the perspective of someone new to the concept. -- Oh, and don't you just hate when the AV equipment grinds to a halt during a presentation? - Brenda Young

This is a link to add those funny little emoticons and icons to your Twitter conversation - Brenda Young

Stunning pictures of the Olympic Opening Ceremonies - Captures the spirit of the outstanding proceedings - Brenda Young

Lots of lightning here in Florida. Interesting to see it in slo mo. - Brenda Young

Listing of top analysts on Twitter and their ranking within the group - Article lists methodology used - Looks like several have changed their minds about ignoring Twitter and jumped on the bandwagon - Brenda Young

Listing of top analysts on Twitter and their ranking within the group - Article lists methodology used - Looks like several have changed their minds about ignoring Twitter and jumped on the bandwagon - Brenda Young

Twitter poster Corvida explains why she is sticking with Twitter -- In spite of everything, it's still the place with the most user. She has spent significant time and energy building up her following there and it would be hard to walk away. - Brenda Young

Twitter poster Corvida explains why she is sticking with Twitter -- In spite of everything, it's still the place with the most user. She has spent significant time and energy building up her following there and it would be hard to walk away. - Brenda Young

Forums are all about people. For every one person posting, there are almost 100 reading. The majority of people are lurking, so how does one get people to come out & play? engage them if you will? Here are some ideas that I’ve used & once you get the ba - Brenda Young

Forums are all about people. For every one person posting, there are almost 100 reading. The majority of people are lurking, so how does one get people to come out & play? engage them if you will? Here are some ideas that I’ve used & once you get the ba - Brenda Young

Blogger Tamar Weinberg asked a number of Social Media thought leaders "What Traits Define a Social Media Marketer?" The post is long but well worth the read to 'listen in' on the current thinking to this question. - Brenda Young

Blogger Tamar Weinberg asked a number of Social Media thought leaders "What Traits Define a Social Media Marketer?" The post is long but well worth the read to 'listen in' on the current thinking to this question. - Brenda Young

If you are planning a summer party, Sangria is a great addition to your menu. - Brenda Young

If you are planning a summer party, Sangria is a great addition to your menu. - Brenda Young

It should be a fun week. Thomas Hawk and I are going to Microsoft's headquarters in Redmond, WA to attend a Pro Photo Summit that Microsoft is putting on. - Robert Scoble

@robert - tuesday noon @ crossroads works for me. I sent a TXT to your 425 number. I'm sure I can rally some local tweeps... - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

Let's make it happen! - Robert Scoble

Interesting analysis that also breaks down "the top 20 'heaviest' (most subscribed to) FF users." What's notable is that many of these same influencers put Twitter on the map. - Steve Rubel via Bookmarklet

@susanbeebe - just to clarify - in this context “active” simply means discoverable, and it doesn’t matter if a person actually does anything on FF as long as his feed keep flowing in. If he is active on twitter and doesn’t even set foot in FF, he will still be picked up by my crawler because his twitter activity contributes to his FF feed. Also not that no matter if he spends time on FF, the data I collected suggests that many people follow his FF feed, which is what I wanted to find out. - Yuval Atzmon

@Robert and others - The data was indeed collected during the second half of June. Please look at this FF thread http://tinyurl.com/6h7zc6, check smernit and jowyang numbers, and compare to a longer list I will publish tonight. I'd say they fit well within the 15-20% margin. Also, as far as the big guys go, I'm sure I'm missing more than that. There are probably a lot of dormant/inactive users who simplly follow Scoble and Arrington without contributing to the feed (which makes them non-discoverable). - Yuval Atzmon

Whoda thunk it? Giving unknown external entities ability to write without prejudice? Spam? No...... - Aaron Brazell

There may well come a time when it is necessary to lock down the API and require developers to be issued unique unlock keys, so that any spamming or other malicious activity can be tracked and shut down promptly. - Slippy Lane

@SlippyLane many services do require a unique key already. FriendFeed just happens to not be one of them. The worst part is that if you have a logic bug when using the API (probably the issue with Gridjit) it can do things like multiple repeated posts. Hopefully, people give them a chance. - Rob Diana