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More on: Visualizations of the social web

17.Jun.2007

Now it’s time for a thesis by Moritz Stefaner, author of Well-formed data. I still hadn’t time to do a careful read on his work, but it’s a detailed analysis on the new paradigms of the social web. It studies now known aspects like user generated content, the long tail, microcontent, implicit information, feeds, tagging and semantics. But the author also searched more information other ways, doing experiments with online data like tags, lists and communications. The results and conclusions can be found inside the thesis. If you also would like to play with his experiments you can find them here, from tag clouds to lifestreams of photos and messages. My favorite is the Timeline Experiments: posts folded according their source and date/time, where you can select how deep you want to see.

Definitely this is some of the best works on the subject that I’ve seen so far, one that deserves some more time to read it.

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