Beyond The Blog.

Now , as a blogger in research my own ( or yours ) data on blogging life, i try using the Wired Celebrity Meter to find out how big a deal I ( or you ) you really are. The Wired algorithm will dig through your personal pages to find out how many fans are following your online exploits. Long Version . How it Works ? Google crawls the entire internet every couple of weeks and has recently started to keep track of who is linked to whom on social networks, blogs and just about every page they crawl. This new service is called Google Social Graph .  Although there are a few different standards for highlighting links like these, most social networking sites, blog software and hosting services support one or more. They're relying on site builders to highlight such links by using special markup. Google uses this information to build a graph of all sites and their links to one another. Rather than request the API from each site individually ( Twitter followers, MySpace friends, et...