Tuesday, September 24, 2002

Social Network Visualization rides again. Alex Wright (whose weblog I can't figure out how to subscribe to) points to some recent discussion on social networks and several weblogs I'll have to get back to. 8.23.2002 social networks - believing the hype There's been no shortage of high-minded blather lately about social networks as being the new new thing in the software world. Rick Rashid talked about Microsoft's vision for a futuristic social operating system at ETCON; Peter Morville, Peter Merholz, Howard Rheingold and other smart folks have also been writing along these lines lately. All this grand theorizing is, of course, running at least several paces ahead of reality, but I've been pleasantly surprised to discover a few actual, working examples of real software projects out there that seem to validate at least some of the hype. Which stimulates me to collect pointers to my own experiments on social nework visualization. Macroscope Manifesto (not just social networks, but the the most substantive piece of work). BlogThread Visualization (start here and work back if you like.) A prototype visual social network explorer derived from blogdex data. Wiki-Structure visualization and this Jon Udell's blogroll network [Jon Schull's Weblog] 9:41:02 AM    comment []