ColinCheng's Weblog

Facebook Stalker jpg

colincheng — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 08:43:56 +0000

The final project

colincheng — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 08:40:36 +0000

In Dundee me and my group followed people around dundee as a form of tracking someone directly. With the internet’s easy access and facebook’s networks i decided to invert this and track people indirectly, taking on the title as a “facebook stalker”. I did this by tracking who was online every hour and plotting the people in a visual graph, by changing the opacity according to who was online and who wasn’t. In my mind, the image worked quite well. The second part of the project was to embed profiles into the pdf to whoever was online. This was to emphasis the tracking and the stalking of my fellow peers. (Can’t post the pdf because of personal information on the profiles).

A few problems that I had was the fear of lack of data, if my “friend list” was capable to create such a long list. But after doing a trail, it seemed to work fine. Another major problem i had was embedding the profiles into the pdf and making them pop up but resolved by creating a new page with the profile and linking it back to the original file.

Overall i think the image turned out, i had the desired effect of the image on my blog called “sunset” and it wasn’t far off from it. I am pleased with the asethetics of the image and in the pdf my links work!!! yay!!! But if i had enough time i would of liked to explored a different way of embedding the profiles ie via layers.

First Test of the “Facebook Stalker”

colincheng — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 13:38:52 +0000

test3withprofiles

Time Graphs

colincheng — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:25:29 +0000

http://www.flickr.com/photos/krazydad/sets/140323/

Link to the person that created the sunset picture. Also made other time graphs. good examples of tagging from flickr and mapping them in a graph according to time.

Flikr tagging

colincheng — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:18:43 +0000

Like the sunset project, but showing how the tags are connected creating a series of connections and networks.

Facebook Examples

colincheng — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:16:22 +0000

Examples of work done through the networks of facebook. Connections of contacts. Filtering of Gender and relationship status

Tutorial with Chris

colincheng — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 14:44:50 +0000

Just had a conversation about the “Sunset” image/graph. Deriving a concept from tracking over time using facebook. The data would be people logging in and out within a period of time. Plotting these data on a graph. We would be tracking a mass of people in a indirect way- relating to our group following people in Dundee. We can then derive peak times on facebook.

Data can also be just a picture of the person logging on, status updates. It can also be about my own updates.

Chris mentioned using animation, but most likely the outcome would be in a form of jpeg

Time Graph

colincheng — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 19:56:33 +0000

This graph is a build of pictures tagged on flickr, and then dated to the year and months when it was taken.

Interesting graph and how i can recreate this type of graph… need to find a source of social subject that can give enough data and able to do this graph against time.

Linking of Words

colincheng — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 19:53:36 +0000

Wikipedia, linking all words together.

Taking this idea and expanding to the tutorial me and Chris had about taking peoples texts and linking words together against the time it was sent. The need to plug into the outbox of my peers? To personal?

Capturing the smile

colincheng — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 19:51:20 +0000

Microsoft Live linking pictures of smiles for an event.

Taking this idea and expanding it through on facebook, on a series of network, again… an idea that probably needs new thought but a good starting point