I am at the Future Exploration Network conference today, which is taking place in Sydney and San Francisco simultaneously.

Check out the blog here. Some very interesting discussion about social media and business models during the morning session.

If the Australian election were to be decided on how many friends you have on MySpace, here is how the results would be…..

(This is based on statistics taken from the politicians listed on a site inside MySpace called Impact and then linking to the respective MySpace page and checking the number of friends)

So big drum roll please… and the votes are as follows:

Howard Government – 8 Friends
Kevin Rudd – 4131 Friends
Bob Brown – 181 Friends
Andrew Bartlett – 261 Friends
Steve Fielding – 5 Friends
Peter Garrett – 933 Friends  
Joe Hockey – 275 Friends
Kerry Nettle – 83 Friends
Tanya Plibersek – 101 Friends
Malcolm Turnbull – 123 Friends
Warren Snowdon – 26 Friends
Dennis Jensen – 6 Friends
Julia Gillard – 778 Friends
Wayne Swan – 180 Friends
Stephen Conroy – 112 Friends
Maxine McKew – 133 Friends
Nicola Roxon – 66 Friends
Greg Combet – 342 Friends
Steve Ciobo – 71 Friends
Sam Crosby – 10 Friends

Very trivial perhaps in the great shape of things. But its clear that in terms of MySpace friendship it is a landslide in favour of Labour!

What is also interesting is that some of the Liberals in the list don’t even say what their party is – like Steve Ciobo. You have to figure he must be Lib because his #1 friend is Joe Hockey.