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| ZeJayMan |
Full article here
| quote: | | Facebook intern Paul Butler has been poring through some of the data held by the social networking firm on its 500m members. The map above is the result of his attempts to visualise where people live relative to their Facebook friends. Each line connects cities with pairs of friends. The brighter the line, the more friends between those cities. After tweaking the graphic and data set it produced a "surprisingly detailed map of the world," he said in a blog post. "Not only were continents visible, certain international borders were apparent as well," he wrote. "What really struck me, though, was knowing that the lines didn't represent coasts or rivers or political borders, but real human relationships." However, large chunks of the world are missing, such as China and central Africa, where Facebook has little presence. |
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| ziptnf |
| Anybody have any opinions on Time naming Mark Zuckerberg their "Person of the year"? |
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| LAdazeNYnights |
| quote: | Originally posted by ziptnf
Anybody have any opinions on Time naming Mark Zuckerberg their "Person of the year"? |
Apparently, all it takes is a hit movie made about you.
Also, who ever cared what Time said??? |
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| Igaryok |
| quote: | Originally posted by ziptnf
Anybody have any opinions on Time naming Mark Zuckerberg their "Person of the year"? |
Assange should've got it. |
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| gazelles |
| surprising amount of people in Svalbard facebooking it |
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| OkiDokie |
| quote: | Originally posted by Igaryok
Assange should've got it. |
Him or Tiger Woods |
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| ziptnf |
:stongue:
I bet 4chan had absolutely nothing to do with that. Not at all. No chance that they influenced that whatsoever. :rolleyes: |
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| Lira |
| quote: | Originally posted by ziptnf
:stongue:
I bet 4chan had absolutely nothing to do with that. Not at all. No chance that they influenced that whatsoever. :rolleyes: |
Well, they did pick Moot last year :D |
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| Teezdalien |
| Wow. that map is pretty impressive. |
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