Wibiya

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Wibiya is great. Using ajax and jquery so quite browser friendly and can be easily implemented into a site with either a plugin for wordpress, html code for a website and compatible to joomla, tumblr, blogger, ning (no longer free, i'm not a happy bunny) and more...   www.wibiya.com Great social networking tool and it just adds a toolbar that permanently hovers at the bottom of your web browser as you scroll it moves with you. Then their are apps that you install into that toolbar, facebook, add this, twitter, facebook fan page (i recently discovered and set up http://www.facebook.com/pages/Visualisation/113395388714343), but the one i love is a Timeline of your blog posts provide by http://www.allofme.com   Very nice visual timeline. Use it, very good, easy to implement. Apolgoises for the dwindled posts recently, waiting for a broadband connection to come about again, but i regular share links and inspiration here: http://visualthinkmap.tumblr.com

Twitter Map

 Twitter Map

A really useful tool to see who tweets about you. Quickly find relevant people to follow! Use Mentionmap to see Twitter conversations as a network and click any user to explore.

mention map tool by asterisq.com I like it as its functional, they are in a concept map with elaborate media of hyperlink attached to nodes to delve deeper, mine deeper into the relational tweeters. Not entirely about the visual appearance but more the activity of  user and influence.
http://apps.asterisq.com/mentionmap/#user-visualthinkmap There have been many twitter visualisations, some mentioned here: http://www.chethstudios.net/2008/08/most-stunning-twitter-visualizations.html Chris Harrison is well known to data visualiser but is worth a mention of visualising text. http://www.chrisharrison.net/projects/visualization.html