socialwhois

"FriendFeeders organized by Country, State or City." -- socialwhois could also include longitude/latitude; perhaps useful for local meetups. - Adriano from Bookmarklet

could be an interesting side project for socialwhois -- "relational tag cloud generator python script is released under the GPL license. Its output is an MXML file that can be compiled to flash using the Adobe Flex 2 compiler." -- but wondering what the diff between del.icio.us tags would be... anyways, that interactive graph is really cool: grab term(s) and move it around to reorient the view. An application would be to graph how socialwhois users are neighbors. - Adriano from Bookmarklet

Looks intersting Adriano! :) - directeur

tags? graphs? flash? looks like sth. i want to check out ;u - 'Like' robot (frɐnc)

"You can completly hide your profile. It won't show in WHOIS searches, nor by direct access to your profile URL. Please don't do this unless you really want to play solo, and not social. " - Richard ¿digame? Walker

http://www.socialwhois.com/profile - Richard ¿digame? Walker

woah! i didn't know you could do that. ...i guess if i want to share i'll put it on friend feed.. - 'Like' robot (frɐnc)

http://bit.ly/interests brings you to Google-ranked interests at socialwhois. The next trick to finding the intersection of users with combined interests is to list the desired tags in the search box, then -"people interested in" where the negation will exclude tag pages. [The search includes vi-inspired keyboard shortcuts; 'shift-enter' to open in new tab; '/' to get to the search box. ;-] - Adriano

23 Feb -- odd... the number of crawled tag pages has *decreased* to 656. The top three interests are psychology, history, and "and." The third one must be a glitch, unless logical conjunction has become popular ;-) - Adriano

Sorry — stupid voodoo algorithm, no cookie for you! :) - directeur

...nicely done. Great work by both you and directur. - JA Castillo

Thanks for the nice review Valeria! :) - directeur

@directeur, maybe you'd like to address the comment on sign on I got from a reader in the post... - Valeria Maltoni

Carter is a very nice guy! Had some chat with him and he even was one of the 1st alpha-testers of SocialWhois :) - directeur

I like the idea too :) - directeur

@irecteur - great idea for tag additions; thank you! - JA Castillo

You have interests? FriendFeed has content for you :) Here are mine: http://www.socialwhois.com/directe... - directeur

interesting! yeah for FF advanced search! - MikeAmundsen

Yes, you have a new feed so you can introduce your friends to the world :) just add the feed: http://www.socialwhois.com/YOUR_NI... to FriendFeed - directeur

very interesting, directeur. - Valeria Maltoni

delicious bookmarks? - Amber, Random Time Lord

Thanks Erica :) - directeur

"That's human nature. We want to connect with like-minded people. What you have to do that's very difficult is create the platform –- whether it's a cocktail party or a technology -– where people can get over social friction, where people can make connections that would ordinarily feel awkward." -- That's the heart of the project... - Adriano from Bookmarklet

Completly agree, thanks for sharing this Adriano! :) - directeur

Adriano, I actually thought about this too, but avoided it for the first version, since I need to know how much load this will get. (optimization) - directeur

actually I misunderstood voodoo... so here's what works for Firefox: bookmark //www.socialwhois.com/%s then assign it a keyword, e.g. swho. To lookup someone registered from the browser's address bar, "swho username" will do the trick. [To lookup people with interest foo, bookmark //www.socialwhois.com/tag/%s -- then similar trick at address bar, "stag foo"] -- directeur, congrats on a great start! - Adriano

Thanks Anton! http://socialwhois.com/zuko :) - directeur

Add socialwhois.com/[your_nickname] as new site to your disqus account. Then URL like something.diqus.com (you choose it at previous step while adding site to disqus) is your Community Code — fill this field in your SocialWhois profile. That's all. (http://www.socialwhois.com/faq) - Anton

Thanks, Anton, for the screenshot tutorial. Much appreciated. - Dread Pirate PJ from NoiseRiver

Um... okay. Don't worry... I won't go posting it to Friendfeed. Honest I swearzorz. - teh Dork Knight aka Kenny

My pleasure Larry :) - directeur

"Even from it’s beginnings, the social media world has been primarily defined by popularity. Many of us seek a different path in how we use these social tools and fancy web 2.0 sites, but the majority drowns us out in their quest to get the most followers or the biggest audience." - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah

definitely! :) - directeur

Yeah, it should open in a new window - Welcome and thanks Alexander! :) - directeur

My pleasure. I'll try and give it a solid shakedown soon. It's interesting ... though I wish it had more dynamic. - Alexander Williams from IM

Fixed! :) - directeur

Thanks for the nice words Paul. Alas, yes, currently, you'll have to create two profiles. Which is stupid I admit. But I'm working on a way to "link" two accounts in one :) - directeur

Ah ok, thought I did something wrong ^^. No worries, would be nice to link, but I know this one's fresh from the bakery. Keep up the great work! - Paul Papadimitriou

Exactly! Thanks for reporting it Rob! I added it to my bug list :) - directeur

If someone wants to help, the vid will be integrated to the site with credit of course! :) - directeur

Ah! hum... well, it's a python app, hosted on GAE :) - directeur

An answer to this: http://friendfeed.com/e... - directeur

Yan, it's already there: http://friendfeed.com/e... :) - directeur

Michael, I actually wrote it. And your confidence really honors me! Thanks a lot! - directeur

I read everyone's comments, and auto-complete tags is a great idea. I also noticed when I tried to add socialmedian to my profile, no favicon came up for it. Is there a way of adding it. It's not a big deal, it's more of an aesthetic issue. All my other sites lines up nicely and have a favicon, except for one. It just looks out of place. I just noticed that posterous and tuimblr are missing favicons too. - Michael Fidler

I forgot to mention that I loved the suggested tags that were chosen for me. One of them was "cool", which is very cool! I'm keeping that one:-) - Michael Fidler