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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. oh god by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    aol sucks lol olol ol ol o lololol

    4th post

  2. Spam Bots by irabinovitch · · Score: 0, Redundant

    How long before IM spammers start mining this site for screen names?

  3. What??? by smg_mrBlonde · · Score: -1, Redundant

    "Measure how popular you are." Why would i want to go thru highschool again?

  4. hm by machine+of+god · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I keep getting server errors. It probably doesn't help that I keep hitting stop, refresh huh. Oh well. Back to that.