boards.ie Circle of Friends

Posted Fri, 04/21/2006 - 20:24 by John Breslin

The circle of friends graph view on boards.ie appeared today, showing a person's friends and friends of friends (buddies of buddies!) on the site. There are 14201 links from 3810 users to 4533 other users.

Here are a few pictures of the overall network, but since my user ID is the lowest the first one centres around me. Everyone isn't connected; there are some bunches of people (clustered in the top left of the first picture) that aren't interlinked with the rest.

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The last images are zooming in on the force-directed version of the overall network graph, where the hubs or nodes with the most links will gravitate towards the centre of the universe.

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Comments

[...] Following on from my

by boards.ie Circle of Friends II at Cloudlands (not verified) - 04/24/2006 - 19:51

[...] Following on from my previous post, I’ve now made the circle of friends feature ignore any banned users, and it also relies on buddy links between users being mutual. [...]

[...] John Breslin posts on

by The Community At Large ยป Boards.ie circle of friends (not verified) - 04/24/2006 - 16:12

[...] John Breslin posts on his blog about the boards.ie circle of friends, a java widget graphing the interconnectedness of boards.ie users. He has some neato pictures up at his blog. There is of course a boards.ie thread about it too.     Send this post to a friend [...]