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AIM Meets Social Network Theory
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."
So if you use this, you'll know the sub-groups in your friends' list? You mean...otherwise you wouldnt have?
The Dirty Work Group
Is this a plot by AOL to get people to use their service rather than another? I do have an AIM screenname from 6 years ago but I cannot be bothered to load AIM up to find out if it is still working just to try this out and see what it does...
I love stacking my barbecues in the shed at the end of summer - you can't beat a bit of grill on grill action.
now you can find out with all certainty if you are the lamest and most unpopular person on the Internet.
-Look lively. LOOK LIVELY!!! --Mr. Shmallow
"Your popularity score: 0."
Yet somehow the IM spammers find me...
...and they've all been just linked by slashdot.
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Does anyone else get the feeling these 8000 people who gave their screenames to the site are about to get a lot of very exciting offers for penis enlargement and Hot17F Hi! My name is cindy
Like this approach breaks ground.
We used to set up a card table in the hallway, outside the registrar's office. We'd hang out a little sign that said 'Coed Registration', and sit back and rake in names and phone numbers.
Today this would be called stalking, I'm sure. Those were the days...
An interesting approach to the task at hand: to waste as much time as humanly possible coding a spider that relies on AOL software and... yeah
What's that I hear? "I'll bet you wish you thought of it first"??? *sobs* well... yeah.
...like 'autopr0n' makes Geoffrey Chaucer sit up and wish he'd thought of it first?
agreed... "buddy" implies someone you go out and have a few beers with... somebody you'd ask to stand up at your wedding, or bail you out of jail. A true buddy might even help you bury a body... but you'd have to buy the beers afterwards.
Have most people even met all the people on their "buddy" lists?
Even if a man chops off your hand with a sword, you still have two nice, sharp bones to stick in his eyes.
Ah the power of chee... er, slashdot. It's up to 12k since I checked it, and quite frankly this seems like the biggest waste of time and (I know I'm being redundant) a prime target for spammers. Quick! Go sign up! There's absolutely no need for this whatsoever.... wait, it fits in just well with AOL itself. It's perfect!
When I am king, you will be first against the wall
With your opinion which is of no consequence at all
It's up to 15000+ and growing.
You dirty lying /.ers - YOU ALL ARE RUNNING AOL!
I have to wash my hands. I might get AOL, or Windows disease from you...
(The sick thing is that I'm only half-kidding.)
I'm using our dorm internet connection, running it on my 1ghz personal computer :-/ Not sure about how admins are going to like this tomorrow...
At first I thought it was talking about the hassle you have to go through to actually find an AOL screenname that's not taken.
I found a work around for that though -- just IM me at Steve89345199234761233290324692183646489
All databases of user information gathered by logging user mouse clicks whilst on-line are evil ... except for the purpose of tracking 'six degrees of seperation'.
If the university complains about the bandwidth usage, just reply that you shouldn't be messed with.
After all, you now know people...
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Don't you know you're supposed to humiliate and denigrate your opponent? Sheesh. You never would have made it in the cut-throat world of high school CX debate. :)
how are you doing? remember me? i just wanted to let you know that i've had you on my buddy list for 5 years now, since we met that one summer at school. i check your away message every day; i know a lot about you! steve sounds like a great guy, i hope you two are happy. also, sorry you had to write that long paper last week, i hope that you got it finished. i saw you were up late, i was checking your idle time! love the web page, jill, those are some nice pictures of your spring break trip. you are so hot in the red bikini. see you around, and IM me sometime! my name is MadWriter33.
cu,
janice