…then I should be into design, technology, business, twitter, web 2.0, social, and social media.
As a Cognitive Science/HCI person studying social media, that’s pretty close 
My friend Mike Krieger produced this from a little experiment he did last weekend. The idea is simple:
- Take a Twitter user’s friends (who they follow).
- Look at each of their homepages.
- See what del.icio.us says about those pages, in terms of tags.
- Make a tag cloud of those tags.
This was the result for my ~150 Twitter “friends“:
He did the same for Christopher’s first 500 (of ~1500) Twitter “friends“:
Pretty cool. Thanks, Mike!
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Thanks for blogging this, Brynn! I brushed up the script a bit (it can now fetch all your friends), and released it over at http://hci.stanford.edu/mkrieger/blog/2008/09/what_do_your_twitter_friends_s.html .
Awesome! Thanks for releasing that! And again, nice work…
I received this comment from Tarek Amr:
I like this experiment so much. I used to believe that delicious is a powerful tool, and it has more data inthere – or let’s call it meta-data – other than the links stored there. The links there are supposed to reveal more info about those who saved them, their fields of interest, etc. And that’s why it’s strange that people do not make use of delicious API’s the same way they use Twitter’s API for example.
BTW. Is this tool created by your friend, an online one? Do you have it’s URL, as I’d like to try it too?