This is an excerpt from one of the new blogs I subscribed to, The 28-Hour-Day diet, by an Australian ER physician:

There are an exponentially increasing number of ways to follow, tag, talk, poke, nudge and communicate with a person in the virtual world. My favorite visuospatial demonstration is the Conversation Prism by Brian Solis. The expanded flickr image gives a great representation of the articulation of social media facets in 2D mapping:

This beautiful flower of Internet communication replaces the old starfish of Web 2.0 shown below:


Social Media Starfish created by Darren Barefoot (a Creative Commons license).

I have accounts on the following social web services:

1. Blogger.com
2. Twitter
3. Facebook
4. LinkedIn
5. Picasa Web Albums
6. Flickr
7. FriendFeed