Graphing Social Patterns

Todd and I attended the Graphing Social Patterns conference in San Diego this past week and had the opportunity to meet MyBlogLog members and developers as well as announce the public availability of the MyBlogLog API.

The conference series is the brainchild of Dave McClure, a self-professed Facebook "fan boy" and while the first conference six months ago was primarily about the Facebook ecosystem, this one examined about a world in which features and behaviors typical of Facebook break out onto the open web to be used across multiple social networks.

What happens when you aggregate updates into centralized "activity streams" such as in MyBlogLog's New with Me feature? What are the challenges in aggregating this content? What is possible once you have this information in one place? It all comes back to some of the things I wrote about back in July, MyBlogLog: DNS for People

The team also whipped together a hack that uses the MyBlogLog API to experiment with using Bluetooth proximity to locate your social network in physical space. We'll be running this hack at next week's SxSW interactive conference as well so if you're going there, head on over to m.mybloglog.com and register your bluetooth device (laptop or phone) and see if you can find your MyBlogLog friends!

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I took time to watch the conference,have to say how I feel about it,remember you want truth,right?It was boring,nothing inspiring no innovation at all, just repetition of the same over and over.I have been surprised that there were no women in your crew.First of all when one thinks social,one needs to understand the meaning of the word social,it sure looked like for male shovinists only(I hope I spelled the word correct,there is no spell check).I don't like to criticize the conference too much but people who were in audience had no chance to express their opinions and there was only talk about doubtful glory but no any input from the ones who are the most important, ones from consumers,future customers.