brynnafred musings and other goodies

If you are who you “follow” …..

…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 [...]

How big is your social network?

I released a survey on social network size yesterday.
We’re interested in seeing what correlation (if any) exists between people’s online social network (size) and real life, actual social connections. The survey asks a few short questions for people to answer, trying to stay as specific as possible to reduce speculation and estimating on network/connection sizes…although [...]

Rapleaf data on social network size

How very timely that I discovered this article today about a group called Rapleaf, who purport to understand how people use the social web by following their “internet footprint.” As a quick aside: I was pretty disappointed after signing up for an account to see what info they had on me—it was hardly complete. A [...]