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."

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Re:Interesting

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Too bad it's only for AIM; it would be interesting to apply similar principles to blogs.

With AOL's restrictive polices towards it's IM software I'll bet this program won't be for AOL only for long (a la Trillian), my bet it moves to include other popular IM clients all while AOL tries hard to stop it from actually helping their users. You know you're really restictive when users resort to using anything by Microsoft because it's more "open".