Vizualisation of social networks

[Gabriela Grosseck]

Hi!
I am trying to found a software (web2.0) to analyse the links between blogs. One of them is TouchGraph.com but it doesn't satisfy my research objectives. Do you know some web2.0 tools for blog link analyse?

[Claude Almansi]

Hi Gabriela

In the first 6 minutes of the Women of Web 2.0 Show #32 Assistive Technology podcast, someone spoke of kartoo in a tool allowing to visualize this kind of links, but between sites in general, not just blogs.

[Gabriela Grosseck]

Hi Claude,

Thanks for the link. I will try it. Since I post this message I found some other softwares but its require some advanced technical skills (programming in Java mainly). Which I don't have.

[Britt Watwood]

Not quite the same thing, but http://www.twoantennas.com/projects/ gives you a tool to visualize del.icio.us networks.

[Gabriela Grosseck]

Hi Britt,

thanks for the the link. I wrote about this (http://grosseck.blogspot.com/2007/04/delicious-network-explorer.html) on my blog. it is very interesting to see how relationships are build between del.icio.us users.

[Britt Watwood]

It is a small world but I thought Gabriela and Eduardo would find this interesting...as it revolves around our membership here in College 2.0. Last month through this site, Gabriela shared a very nice article she had written on using delicious for learning, which I shared with one of my colleagues here in Virginia, Jeff Nugent. Jeff in turn was contacted by a friend in Shanghai about the Learning 2.0 conference, and we learned that Jeff Utecht, who took over Nugent's job in Shanghai, was using a Ning site to run his conference. Jeff renewed several contacts virtually through the Learning 2.0 site, and he dutifully saved the site to his delicious account. When he looked at who else had saved this site, he noted that it was first saved by "ggrosseck"....prompting a quick call to me to come to his office and see it!

It is fascinating to me that in the space of a month, two of us here in Virginia made contacts with colleagues in China and yet were linked back to a colleague in Romania, thanks to a colleague in Uruguay. Thomas Friedman is right, it is a very flat world!

: - )

Britt

[Eduardo Peirano]

And you closed the circle, Britt, from the USA, by letting us know about this story