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Graphing Social Patterns

Todd and I attended the Graphing Social Patterns conference in San Diego this past week and had the opportunity to meet MyBlogLog members and developers as well as announce the public availability of the MyBlogLog API.

The conference series is the brainchild of Dave McClure, a self-professed Facebook "fan boy" and while the first conference six months ago was primarily about the Facebook ecosystem, this one examined about a world in which features and behaviors typical of Facebook break out onto the open web to be used across multiple social networks.

What happens when you aggregate updates into centralized "activity streams" such as in MyBlogLog's New with Me feature? What are the challenges in aggregating this content? What is possible once you have this information in one place? It all comes back to some of the things I wrote about back in July, MyBlogLog: DNS for People

The team also whipped together a hack that uses the MyBlogLog API to experiment with using Bluetooth proximity to locate your social network in physical space. We'll be running this hack at next week's SxSW interactive conference as well so if you're going there, head on over to m.mybloglog.com and register your bluetooth device (laptop or phone) and see if you can find your MyBlogLog friends!