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Geek Chart

June 4th, 2009 · by David Bradley >> 4 Comments

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Geek Chart shows you where you share, allegedly. Sign up, give it your username (no passwords required) on Twitter, flickr, Stumbleupon, Digg, last.FM, del.icio.us, YouTube, and your blog URL and it will create a neat piechart showing the % proportions of your activity on those sites.

I was expecting this blog to be the most active chunk of pie, but it’s not, I’m only spending 24% of my sharing time with my tech talk blog and almost half my shares on Twitter. But, thinking about it, I use Twitter to share my other blogs (Sciencebase, SciScoop, Reactive Reports, and Spinneret too, as well as my Stumbles and my Google Reader reads, so perhaps that’s not such a surprise.

I’m not particularly active on Digg these days (it’s boring), I have other ways to save bookmarks than del.icio.us and you wouldn’t expect my last.fm and flickr accounts to outshine my blog as they’re used for recreation rather than as active social media and sharing tools.

Anyway, give it a try, Geek Chart is amusing, if not particularly enlightening. Perhaps there are other metrics they plan to add to the pie, Facebook activity is coming soon apparently.

As well as the piechart, the system generates a social media stream for your username.

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4 responses so far ↓

  • Kim Woodbridge // Jun 4, 2009 at 1:57 pm

    Interesting – my top one was delicious – I guess I bookmark a lot of stuff. Then was twitter. My blog, lastfm and stumble were all tied for 3rd place.

  • David Bradley // Jun 4, 2009 at 2:58 pm

    Interesting, I didn’t expect to hear anyone say they showed up most active on delicious.

  • Heidi Cool // Jun 8, 2009 at 5:03 am

    It is kind of fun to see it displayed this way. My Geek Chart also had the biggest slice for Delicious. Twitter was second followed by StumbleUpon, Last.FM, Digg and my Blog. I wasn’t the least surprised by Delicious taking the lead. I’ve been using it more and more. I save things there all the time. If I’m working on a project on topic X, I like saving relevant sites there in the appropriate category. T’is very handy. I expect my chart will vary depending on activity. I’ve not uploaded to Flickr recently but have a pile of photos in the queue so when I go that it will probably take over.

  • David Bradley // Jun 8, 2009 at 9:00 am

    I use del but probably not as much as I should, I can see all the benefits, but simply never remember to tag. I probably use Read it Later more, but that’s not the same and certainly not social unless you make it so.

    Meanwhile, watch out for flickr, there have been rumours (maybe exaggerated) that Yahoo could pull the plug at any time.


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