"Microsoft researchers studied the addresses of 30bn text messages sent during a single month in 2006. Any two people on average are linked by seven or fewer acquaintances, they say." - Andy Sternberg from Bookmarklet

Why revive? Had it been dead? - Benedikt Koehler

I think it's probably pretty true. It's amazing the connections you discover. Not that many of them (any?) are that useful, really, but realizing you're no more than 6 handshakes away from every other person on the planet can be a useful perspective. - ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ

Well, I now "know" (i.e. am subscribed) to Andy because he bookmarkletted the same news item as I did ten minutes before me, and I "met" him through my subscription to Robert Scoble. Two degrees? It would be interesting to be able to see a map of all our FF connections ... anyone know of an app? - Bob Kingsley

I saw a Twitter app that did that the other day. Crap, what was it...? - ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ

Here's "a small application that can be used for social network analysis of Friendfeed data" - http://snurl.com/3a4t2 - Bob Kingsley