Orkut datamining - Joi Ito's Web

Somewhat scary, but pretty interesting Orkut datamining. An Orkut density map and a Orkut Personal Network GeoMapper. Here's a map of my network. It doesn't seem to map my complete network. It's also too bad it's not global yet.

Via Sanford

6 Comments

01. Andy - Apr 26, 2004 - 21:42

You must be quite busy, Joi. This blog has become quite dull

02. Joi Ito - Apr 26, 2004 - 23:39

I am quite busy, but...

03. J. LeRoy - May 02, 2004 - 23:44

When I saw the post I was intrigued, but I gotta say, that's a pretty useless service.

Check out http://traffic.511.org
I would expect some of these tools to be available. What use is datamining if you have no analytical tools?

I think my team could have built the Orkut site in under 10 minutes. It really didn't take us very long to do the 511.org site.

Global mapping, better presentation, being able to click on a point to get relevant data, highlighting cities, all that would be quite simple.

04. Jake Catching - May 09, 2004 - 02:35

Here's an interesting forum where we can discuss orkut. http://www.googlecommunity.com/forum-4.html

05. Fredrick Newton - May 09, 2004 - 02:40

Here's an interesting forum where we can discuss orkut. http://www.googlecommunity.com/forum-4.html

06. rajasekaran - Jun 13, 2004 - 23:19

all if you information it should be beware of datamining concept

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