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TWiT Army

Leo Laporte has launched an instance of Laconi.ca, the open source microblogging platform that powers Identi.ca. Given that Leo has 53,810 followers on Twitter at the moment, the TWiT Army could have a pretty significant impact on the microblogging landscape.

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Twitter Gopher Support is Down?!

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More Identi.ca Stats - The Long Tail

This chart is based on statistics collected from the Identi.ca public feed. It's simply a quick look at the number of notices posted per user between 7/26 and 8/5. (The service came online on 7/1.) There's a pretty typical long tail of usage. A total of 4,459 users have posted at least once. 1,109 of them have only posted once. 2,164 have posted 5 or more times. There's a core group of users who are basically using the service like IRC or group chat. Either using XMPP clients or Twhirl, they're conducting real time conversations in the same way others use IM for 1-to-1 chat. Some might consider it interesting that Evan Prodromou, Identi.ca founder, is hovering at #10 on the list.

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Snapshot - More Identi.ca Conversations

Updating the network graph I posted the other day, this is a map of the ~2,500 notices sent that included @user references pulled from the past 10,000 or so notices. In this snapshot the arrows indicate the directionality of the dent. As with the last graph, you'll need to "Download full size" in order to read the user names. Enjoy.

P.S. Someone mentioned that there might be duplicated user names. If you happen to see any, could you please leave a comment or dent me with the name? Thanks!

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One Night on Identi.ca

Here's a snapshot of one night's worth of conversation on Identi.ca, courtesy of Creative Commons, XMPP, and the open-source network visualization software Cytoscape. See anyone you know?

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Posterous to Tumblr? Slick - Maybe Not So

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Posterous to Tumblr? Slick

Posterous is rapidly adding tha ability to push your posts out to other services. A few weeks ago I somewhat reluctantly gave up some of the customization of Tumblr for the posting flexibility and slick photo gallery features of Posterous. Now apparently you can have all posterous posts go to Tumblr as well. If this works, and all the media capabilities like embedded players, embedded PDF viewing, and image galleries transfer as well, I may just be back on Tumblr. Let's test it out with a PDF file...

Planning your walk or bike trip around San Francisco? This map comes in handy:

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So apparently you can now post to Posterous via SMS, images autopost to flickr, and notices go to twitter. They just became my outbox.

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Original Iranian Missile Image

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Graph of FriendFeed's 50 Most Followed

This is simply a graph of the number of followers for the top 50 most followed users as listed in User 21's Top 250. I created the graph because I was curious to see if there was any obvious drop off between Allen Stern's Default Nine and the rest of the pack. There doesn't seem to be. The Default Nine are in fact the top nine on the graph, but you'll notice steverubel, chrisbrogan, l0ckergn0me (chris pirillo), and fredwilson are hot on their heels.

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