What do they think of me?

posted 04:15PM Oct 18, 2007 with tags bookmarks delicious statistics tags by Lars Trieloff

I am using del.icio.us extensively. Not only for keeping my own bookmarks, also for discovering new links (by following my network) and of course, using the for:trieloff tag in del.icio.us is the way I prefer to get informed about interesting links.

When watching some of the links I get send using this method, I ask my self: "What do they (my friends, family and co-workers) think of me?". What do they think is interesting for me and worth tagging a for:trieloff?

In order to answer this question, I wrote a small ruby script that scrapes my personal del.icio.us link inbox, searches for tags and ranks them according to their popularity. This is the tag cloud the program came up with:

2.0 ajax amazon apple application architecture article b3mn blog browser business code collaboration collaborative_software communication competition competitors cool css design development ecommerce-software entrepeneurship entrepreneurship framework fun funny gk-intern google howto html http humor iphone java javascript job jobs mac management market marketing office online opensource osx pr programming reference rest ruby rubyonrails search social socialsoftware software startup tips tool tools tutorial usability vc video web web2.0 webdesign webdev wiki xml

If you compare this to my own tag cloud of things I blog or bookmark, you will find a big overlap. It looks like they know me quite well.

The top-10 words for defining web 2.0

posted 11:24PM Aug 02, 2006 with tags ajax definition folksonomy statistics web20 by Lars Trieloff

Nearly everyone that knows the terms Web 2.0 knows the "Web 2.0 definition game": Ask two people what "Web 2.0" means and you will get 3 definitions. 37signals asked 500 people and got 500 definitions and while reading those comments is quite entertaining, I was asking myself "What are the words used in most Web 2.0 definitions". I feed a word frequency analyzer with the results, removed obvious stopwords and got following list:
  1. Web (320 mentions)
  2. Applications (and Apps, 128 mentions)
  3. More (99 mentions)
  4. Ajax (98 mentions)
  5. New (75 mentions)
  6. 2.0 (59 mentions)
  7. User (51 mentions)
  8. Me (47 mentions)
  9. You (39 mentions)
  10. Desktop (35 mentions)

runner-ups are: Internet, People, Sites, Content, Think, Using, Software, Interactive, Next and Services.

Now, when you build your own defintions, remember to use the Top-10 words for defining web 2.0 to stay folksonomy compatible.

Web 2.0 means more new ajax applications for desktop users like you and me.

If you've got other ideas, add them in the comments. Interestingly, words like Social (23 mentions), Hype (21 mentions) or Collaborations (13 mentions) which had been part of my Web 2.0 definition don't show up in the Top-10 and Folksonomy is mentioned only once and Tag and Tagging are mentioned ten times.