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Mitchell Tsai
Mitchell Tsai
Facebook Nexus graph for Mitchell Tsai, ~300 friends [Nexus.ludios.net - 8/4/08] - http://picasaweb.google.com/lh...
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August 4, 2008 from Picasa Web Albums - Comment - Share
Try this link to an active Nexus page http://nexus.ludios.net/view... (allows zoom and pan, names pop up with all the people they connect to) - Mitchell Tsai
(1) Left cluster: 119 Dance friends (1a) Bottom are West Coast (1b) Smaller top are East Coast (2) Right cluster: 77 FriendFeed friends (2a) Lower center are heavy Facebook networkers (2b) Lower-right faint ring around center are Stanford/Harvard people and 38 college/graduate-school friends (who are baaarely connected to each other, since only ~5-7% on Facebook) (3) MANY single dots, since Facebook is still early-adopter-phase for age 30+s. - Mitchell Tsai
To me the edges of the graph are *really* interesting, to see how some friends barely connect into the graph, but they won't mean anything to most people. - Mitchell Tsai
Mark: Can you redo yours as a "spring graph" (rather than radial)? It's easier to see the groups that way... - Mitchell Tsai
Sure, here it is: http://www.flickr.com/photos... The island is social media people who friended me up on Facebook. - Mark Trapp
That thing is far too interesting... I like - xero
P.S. A feature I really like is (when logged in thru Facebook to your own Nexus) is seeing the groups my friends have in common. Great way to find new groups to join! - Mitchell Tsai
Mo: I've got a lot of Australian friends, but it's a big country (duh). It'd be cool if Facebook allowed 2-3-4-5-6-level searches because we don't have any Facebook friends in common yet, so we're at least 2-degrees apart (aside from knowing each other through FriendFeed). - Mitchell Tsai
I guess 2+ level searches are easy to implement, but simply take too much resources to run. I've seen it with FFSixDegrees. It's no problem to include the 3rd order network of a person, but then I would have to work through not only 500 but 20,000 contacts. Anyway, I would guess that you can reach the whole network with 4 steps. - Benedikt Koehler
Okay, will build something like this into FFSixDegrees soon. It should work with Prefuse, I guess. - Benedikt Koehler
@Mitchell Fascinating none the less. I generated one for my FB account, some interesting things emerge from the chaos - Mo Kargas
My FF6Degrees chart (courtesy of Benedikt's program) http://friendfeed.com/e... - Mitchell Tsai
Some connections into real-life from FriendFeed: (A) Mona Nomura - Alex Perlman (dance friend) (B) Pete Cashmore - Oren Etzioni (Freshman dormmate), Henri Duong (San Francisco friend) (C) Michael P. Williams - Heidi Roizen (former VC, now starting music company), (D) Chris Brogan - Jonathan Askin (college dormmate, now internet lawyer in NYC) (E) Lots of people - Guy Kawasaki (VC) - Mitchell Tsai
Nice find, Mitch :) Funny how I'm sort of connected to one of your friends LOL - Mona Nomura
[Mon 8/4/08 1:24 pm EDT 7:25 pm CEST-German time] Benedikt: I just regenerated my diagram with your link. Sorry I forgot to do that before I went to sleep last night. You can trace your connections on my Nexus now (through Timo Heuer, Mike Fruchter, and Susan Beebe). I like tracing the 2-3-4-5-6 level connections of people through the different areas of the network. Love to see a Nexus-like thing for FriendFeed. Maybe you can talk with the Nexus people to share code? - Mitchell Tsai
There are a lot of unexpected connections between my friends on Facebook & LinkedIn. Many surprises! Mona: How did you meet Alex Perlman? Do you guys know each other in person, or via Internet? Chances are we have more friends in common...they're just not on Facebook. Only 5-7% of my real-life friends are on Facebook. - Mitchell Tsai
@Mitchell: Nexus is great, I have something quite similar in mind. But there is a difference between the 2-3-4-5-6 level connections in this graph and the "true" 2-3-4-5-6 degree connections as in the 6 degrees thesis. In the first case the network consists of the actual links between your FB contacts. In the second case, the shortest links between people would be calculated using all FB users. In the nexus, say, Benjamin Golub and Alex Perlman are 3 nodes apart. Using all FB the distance would be less. - Benedikt Koehler
Benedikt: Good observation about the distances. Real-world connections would be even more different. Two communities show up very strongly interconnected in my Facebook (dance & FriendFeed), but they also are heavy social networking groups. My family/relatives are light social networkers, so you don't see a dense concentration of relatives (I have ~60 1st cousins, 26 aunts/uncles, etc...), - Mitchell Tsai
Mitchell - Just re-visited this. Totally awesome! - Charlie Anzman
Thanks Philip. Just saw your Nexus. Thanks for sharing. Who's Michelle Greer and the group on the right? http://tinyurl.com/5nzej7 - Mitchell Tsai
Mitchell - Michelle Greer is active in the Austin social media scene, and is friends with a couple of nexus people in California. Lynn Bender runs geekaustin.org and does a bunch of meetups and mixers every year. The group in the upper right are all ex-Dell folks I met when ramping the call center in Edmonton, AB, Canada - Phil G
Thanks Philip. It's cool to see who knows who in this world... - Mitchell Tsai
Mark Wilson's thread about “Everyone on FriendFeed is adding one another to Facebook today. What the hell is going on?” (20 likes, 36 comments) http://friendfeed.com/e... - Mitchell Tsai