Monday, March 9, 2009

Facebook App of the Day: Nexus

The Nexus application is the ultimate tool for all to-be social researchers, data miners, marketers, or simply fans of complicated graphs. What it does is extracts your fried data and presents it as a complex graph of nodes and connections, where the nodes in the center of the graph are the ones that you have the most identical friend connections with. Other than that, when you click a node (i.e. one of your Facebook friends, the application pops out other similarity information about that person, such as the groups you share, similarities in interests and so on.

This is how my network of friends looked like this morning:

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