iFranky

I’m a geek, I love numbers. And graphs. Little is needed to make an online nerd happy, especially when it involves twitter and last.fm.

Two additional small webapps can make a kid an online geek happy.

LastGraph

LastGraph visualizes your music data, submitted to your last.fm account, in a unique way. Inspired by Lee Byron’s last.fm listening’s history graph the service pulls all (ALL!) your data from audioscrobbler and outputs everything in an awesome StreamGraph. Click image for larger graph (Original graph is 13000px wide).

Twitter StreamGraphs

What would a life be without the same, but for twitter? Exactly.

Worthless.

Twitter StreamGraphs does kinda same… but obviously _is_ restricted by the twitter API restrictions. And can’t be favourited in twitter either. Surprisingly the status of the service does not graph Failwhales or Failbirds.

After a long period of deliberation and I have taken a new job and joined Emmaus Preston.
Careful thoughts have been put in to an eventual future online but I can think of many reasons why not to go into ework. One of them being the desire of making a difference and working with people, homeless people. Hoping to help them rediscover the values of life, the real values of life and not some daily online wankery about whose service is most valuable and what acquisition was justified or not.

The online world is a nice scene and one I’ve enjoyed for a long time, but I think there are many more important things in life than discussing pixel anality, although I finally found use for a heavily customized remake from Darren Hoyt’s Mimbo theme.
I will continue to follow the development of online applications and annoy my colleagues with my best friend, friend, but for now my task lays somewhere else. Obviously, me being myself, I will be the biggest online nerd within the Emmaus UK mouvement and Emmaus Preston will be present on the the usual platforms. And we will blog à gogo.

The Emmaus Preston Superstore opening is on Saturday 20th September 2008 and will be live broadcasted on Ustream.
If you’re local, why not join the Emmaus Preston Fantasy Football League and win some Emmaus Gift Vouchers?