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The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way. LJ Connect [petekrawczyk.com] is the page that lets you find how many steps away you are from someone else on LJ. For what it's worth, though, they don't read the userinfo pages; they read the friends information from a special simplified web interface designed just for such tools. (The details of the interface aren't public, but you can ask the LJ admins for more information.) The end result is the same, though. Marnanel author another tool to analyse friends lists [marnanel.org] There's a paper on weblog popularity here [shirky.com]. (It got slashdotted IIRC) I don't actually get it. I think instant messaging is great, but only for business purposes (communicating with other branches, overseas contacts, etc). To me, a buddies are people that you go to pubs with, go to cricket matches with, etc. I'll never be online after work hours or on the weekends, those time should

1417901 story dan moore writes "A student at Caltech has created a website ( BuddyZoo.com ) that tracks cliques within groups of peoples' buddylists. It also measures buddy popularity and allows you to do a six-degrees type search for other screen names. An interesting approach to social network theory." Share this story This story has 212 Comments Read similar stories with these tags *

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