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- Six degrees for geeks
Stewart Butterfield has an interesting piece wondering whether it's possible to automate the creation of groups from a network of 1-to-1 relationships. He seems to think (or maybe it's just my own conclusion) that an automated system could suggest some kind of groups but these would be more crude than real-life groups whose boundaries are not on/off, but fade out. If real-life group boundaries were distinct one would never be in the situation of deciding where to draw the line when inviting a group of friends to a dinner, party, etc.; it would be obvious where the social grouping ended.
Anyway, this has prompted me to get round to writing up the making of my friend-of-a-friend file…
In Web Development on 13 December 2002. 2 comments. Permalink