by Calvin Robinson on May 23, 2009.

I have no idea how this site works, but it’s pretty cool. In a wakoopa kind of style, it graphs all your social media websites, resulting in a clear pie-chart of which sites you use most.

Geek Chart

Calvin’s Geek Chart

I always thought I blogged/tweeted more than anything, but obviously not. I seem to have lots more content on my flickr and delicious than I do on anything else. Interesting stuff. [Update] Seems to have updated my Twitter now, and it is in par with flickr. Nice

by Calvin Robinson on December 2, 2008.

It’s 5 months since I wrote my post about how identi.ca is better than twitter. I still believe this, not a lot on that side has changed. Identi.ca still has the early adopter, techy community. Where as Twitter is more a mainstream site now.

One thing that really hasn’t changed since then, is this promise of cross-platform compatibility. Identi.ca have done all they can on this front – the laconi.ca platform couldn’t be more open, or more compatible with Twitter. Twitter on the other hand, don’t seem interested. Not only that,  but half the clients out there are Twitter-only.

I mean come on, identi.ca uses the same API as Twitter, it’s not hard to get your client working with identi.ca too.

Twhirl have done a good job. It’s just a shame Adobe Air is still a little buggy in Linux. No doubt when that’s ironed out, Twhirl will have a lot more users. The other thing is that Twhirl seems to be being left behind, feature-wise. Twitter Deck for e.g. is brilliant, with its groups, and multiple monitoring boxes, for TwitScoop, 12seconds etc.

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