FlickrGraph

This is really cool:

FlickrGraph: A Social Network Visualization

Flickr Graph is an application that explores the social relationships inside flickr.com. It makes use of the classic attraction-repulsion algorithm for graphs.

Basically, it does the kind of thing that Diana Crane made a career of-- making explicit invisible colleges. (Though of course there's the whole question of how much credit you should give to formal declarations of affiliations and friendships; the problematics of our current inability to specify varieties of friends; etc. etc. Still, this is the kind of map that sociologists used to spend loads of time crafting. The grab-and-twirl feature is also cool.)

I've linked to my own flickrgraph above. Why is Ross Mayfield's head so big*?

[props to mad coolhunter Jason]

[To the tune of Traffic, "Freedom Rider," from the album "Feelin' Alright: The Very Best of Traffic".]

* In the visualization, I mean. In real life Ross is quite modest and pleasant.