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AIM Meets Social Network Theory

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the diagram-fever dept.

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."

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  1. great... by tankdilla · · Score: 5, Funny

    now you can find out with all certainty if you are the lamest and most unpopular person on the Internet.

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    -Look lively. LOOK LIVELY!!! --Mr. Shmallow

  2. Re:I made the site by SkyIce · · Score: 5, Funny

    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...