2 Ways to Visualize Your Web Life
How many places are you trying to keep up with? Just for once sit down and try to count. I don’t remember doing that for ages, the only obvious answer is “Too many”. Therefore I was actually great to come across these two apps visualizing web life in the form of mice-looking charts:
Personas
For Personas all you need to specify is your name. The tool then goes ahead and finds all web mentions on your name, analyzes the surrounding text and uses natural language processing to compiles all the found data into the multi-color bar. The process is actually fun: while the tool is discovering you, you can see the colors and the bars changing.
In the end, your social web life is represented as an horizontal bar: each color stands for a part of your identity or work profile (too bad the bar cannot be embed):
GeekChart
Unlike Personas, GeekChart requires registration and instead of gathering the data, it asks you to submit it. What you need to do is to give your usernames across several major social networks (Twitter, Youtube, Flickr, Digg, StumbleUpon, Delicious, Last.fm as well as your blog URL). After that the tool looks at each profile activity and represents this analysis in the form of the chart. Hovering over each segment, you can see the actual percentage this network takes in your online life.
You can embed the chart to your blog or profile page.
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