Mr. Tweet does much more than that though. It gives you a detailed look at people who follow you, their ratio of followers to followees, how often they post, and if they regularly follow people back.

The service also recommends interesting people to follow based on how many of your friends follow them. It helps you get a good idea of who you should be following back.

@mrtweet only works if you follow their account. They are still in private alpha, but give them a try. You might find something fun that you have been missing out on.

See what Mr. Tweet says about me »

The 24-year-old lives and breathes Wordpress, so it’s no surprise that version 2.7 is the best yet. Not only has the dashboard been completely redesigned, but you can drag and drop elements to customize it any way you want. Mullenweg promises that the new Wordpress is more productive: maneuvering around the system is faster, and you can even delete modules that you don’t use. Don’t like upgrading? 2.7 has an automatic upgrader.

Automattic contracted Happy Cog’s Liz Danzico to help consult on the new design, as well as the Wordpress community. They put a lot of effort into QA and testing for this release.

If you want to start a blog, give Wordpress a try. In the past three years, it’s taught me more about publishing and programming than anything else.

The ZDNet blog network runs on an older version of Wordpress (2.1.3 to be exact, with many custom functions), but we will soon be upgrading.

Update: As of 3:30 p.m. PST, Wordpress 2.7 has been downloaded over 100,000 times.

The second Cupcake Camp was hosted Sunday in South Park at the offices of Get Satisfaction.

Bakers from all over the bay area converged in a contest of art, creativity, and frosting.

Over 2,000 cupcakes were presented, and they were gobbled up within seconds of being released to the public. Every ten minutes, about 118 cupcakes were delivered to the tables inside the Satisfactory.

It was crowded, as expected, but the experience was fulfilling, especially when the newest batch of treats were delivered.

The oddest cupcakes I saw were called “Spaghetti & Meatballs”:

The tastiest? S’mores, of course:

This was a huge improvement from the first camp hosted this past June. My goal is to have the next camp here at CBS Interactive in the CHOW kitchen.

Here are the rest of my photos from the event on Flickr »

San Francisco is host to many tech events, but one of my favorites is Lunch 2.0. Today’s event was at the San Francisco Station office.

The event was organized by Patience Elfving from Boulevards:

They do a lot of city guides, but SF Station is more of an entertainment zine.

Also met Eric from ecardlets.com, an iPhone web interface for ecards. You should check them out. They use some of the new Safari extensions to make the app look and feel different than just looking at a website on your iPhone.

The rest of my photos from the event are here.

Today, they launched a new live video player that allows the user to be the director. That’s right, you can control which camera you want to watch. The first show to use this new player was Diggnation with Kevin Rose and Alex Albrect.

“Barrett Lyon, founder of BitGravity, sent me an IM with a link to a demo of their multi-angle simultaneous HD streaming viewing experience. I said that we should totally try it out with an episode of Diggnation,” said Rev3 co-founder David Prager.

You can even get a behind-the-scenes look at the production of the show. Prager said they hope to use this technology for all of their shows soon.

You can watch the Diggnation episode here »

That is the question that will be debated tonight at the headquarters of CBS Interactive in San Francisco, along with many others.

The Social Media Club, headed by Chris Heuer and Kristie Wells, invited a diverse group of techies to discuss the realms of social data. Cathy Brooks from Seesmic is moderating the panel.

The development of the next generation of the web is at stake. What will be discussed tonight?

• Media literacy. What is the digital divide? It’s growing worse because people don’t know how to search. Some of us do, but 98% of the populus don’t.
• Best practices. Supporting industry standards like data portability and OpenID.
• Ethics. Who owns social media?

“If all you have is a hammer, then the world looks like a nail.” -Heuer

How can we learn, as users of this medium, how we can repackage context and still keep the story moving? How do we keep people up to date on what happened before?

Who owns social media inside an organization? Who is responsible for it? Who gets the credit if things soar into outer space? Also, how do you share that ownership?

Maybe ownership is the wrong word though. Everyone is responsible for social media, right?

Our panelists tonight are Valerie Combs from BuzzLogic, Mike Manuel from Voce, and Jeremy Toeman from LiveDigitally.

Toeman: If social media isn’t built into your products, you’re doing it wrong.

Can marketing folks be authentic enough to have that emotional connection that is part of social media?

Combs: Regardless of what your discipline, do you understand what these people what and are you willing to make them happy?

Manuel: We are more inclined to trust our friends or peers than anything that is corporate. We look online for information first now. We have to think about that more.

Certain companies are not using Twitter, but the communities are using Twitter to try and reach them, and there is no answer on the other end. How do you get those people connected?

Toeman: It’s important to see where the echo chamber gets to. If you think your product is gonna reach Joe the Plumber, you are probably wrong. It’s about understanding which platforms your company can benefit from.

Word of mouth is so essential, but you can’t build a whole company on word of mouth. At the end of the day, you need systems that will massively extend your reach.

Combs: There are niche markets like PBS Kids Sprout, which follows a toddler around all day. There is a large, unique audience that is entertained by this. It’s basically a community for “mommy bloggers”.

The people that love Sprout, really love Sprout. In a few months, they went from zero bloggers to over a hundred.

Manuel: The volume of information that the gaming industry has is just insane. Sony built a Playstation blog that allowed hundreds of thousands of gamers to interact with the company and get support.

Toeman: BugLabs, the LEGO of gadgets, have built an SDK with a social coding platform. So anyone can collaborate with anyone. The actual programming tools have built in marketing tools that is done right; there is no spin, there are no tricks. It’s actually useful.

Whatever tools you are going to deploy, it’s about developing thick and thin skinned attitudes simultaneously. Every bit of content coming in is handled in an appropriate manner, but you are also thick-skinned enough that you can’t be paralized because someone wrote a tweet that says your product sucks.

Cathy: You’re basically letting the consumer into your house, and you have to be okay with that.

It’s about measuring ROI. If you sell camcorders for a living, how much money should you invest in Twitter? It’s about spending money on your audience. If they’ve never heard of it before, don’t waste a dime. -Jeremy Toeman

Maybe PR needs to leverage the skillsets that they already have of influencing someone’s written word, and the transaction of information will be more natural.

Where is social media taking us in 2008 and beyond? If you’re reading this blog, chances are you love the web and how we as people can interact with it. We use the web more and more these days to communicate with friends, and sometimes it’s even overwhelming.

Do you own this social data? Maybe we should all just forget about it and have some cake?

Former Googler software engineer and current CTO of Pressflip Ted Dzubia will be doing most of the posting, but he’s opened it up for anyone to contribute. Expect stories from other Pressflippers Kyle Shank and Matt Kent.

Although this is not your normal type of tech news, there is still a need for slice-and-dice, Valleywagish commentary. It should be fun.

6:30 p.m. The blogger lounge is loaded with pizza, cupcakes, and Fiji water. Pete Cashmore’s sending off party is hosted at Roe in San Francisco, and the place is filling up. I got to work quickly and made friends with the representatives from Artiklz.

Artiklz

It allows you aggregate your various commentaries from different websites into your blog.

Directly below the comments on your blog, you can bring in data from Digg, Reddit, and even FriendFeed.

The site is currently in open alpha, so try give their product a try, and let me know what you think.

6:54 p.m. They are opening up the bar.

7:09 p.m. Here are the cupcakes:

I am going to interview the people from Strands.

Oosah

This service helps you organize, manage, and share your pictures, videos, and music all in one spot. Grab from Flickr, Facebook, Picasa, and more. It’s has an easy web interface too:

You can drag and drop from each service into the other. The guys gave us a really good demo:

7:42 p.m. The place is packed. Getting sweaty in here. Just met with Igor from Unseen.tv. He has an underground erotica marketplace.

WeAre.Us

Social support networks for patients. You can interact with people that have the same physical ailments as you and find friends.

For example, if you have Chron’s Disease, you can use wearecrohns.org. Check them out.

Strands

8:40 p.m. A service that allows you to bring things you do on the web and compile your tastes. There is a recomendation technology that will soon allow you to find other people that would enjoy similar content.

Strands is “people powered discovery”. They are building your taste stream. Definitely check them out.

If you want to try their beta, use the code “mashable”.

The geeks need to learn how to talk like the non-geeks. -Drew Olanoff

CoComment

A Firefox plugin that allow you to make comments on any website. It follows you from site to site.

I will have some more updates soon

Full photoset on Flickr from the past two Mashable Monthlys »

Today is International Talk Like A Pirate Day, and Facebook is playing along. Scroll to the bottom of your page, and change the language to “English (Pirate)”:

It’s silly, but also kinda fun:

Yer mateys on ye olde Facebook are yer shipmates and family ye wish to be in contact with during yer voyage on the high seas.

Twitter is redefining the future of messaging. They just released some cosmetic changes, and the site seems faster overall.

It’s more Ajaxy, and more responsive.