Ron Diver

This is an interesting framework from Ben Kirman at the Lincoln Social Computing Research Center, who  posits that “social play” can be split into 4 archetypes. These types (Evangelists, Socialites, Reluctants and Anti-Socials) roughly reflect a Myers-Briggs score, but he finds that individuals can embody various styles through their lifetime.

Johannes Ullrich provides some handy scripts for mining data from the popular picture hosting site TwitPic.

Over two-thirds of the images contained detailed EXIF information, providing wealth of info about the device used, location, even cardinal orientation and direction of travel from your handy iPhone.  A small number of files also revealed the photographer’s name.  Summary findings and a link to the scripts are available on his blog.

Hardware manufacturers for a subset of the TwitPic dataset.

Hat tip to @Mona.