{"id":309,"date":"2003-04-15T07:56:39","date_gmt":"2003-04-15T12:56:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=309"},"modified":"2003-04-15T07:56:39","modified_gmt":"2003-04-15T12:56:39","slug":"the-value-of-buddy-list-mapping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=309","title":{"rendered":"The value of buddy list mapping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As linked by Slashdot, <a href=<\"http:\/\/www.buddyzoo.com\/\">BuddyZoo<\/a> provides statistics about your AIM buddy list.<br \/>\nWith it, you can:<br \/>\n* Find out which buddies you have in common with your friends.<br \/>\n* Measure how popular you are.<br \/>\n* Detect cliques you&#8217;re part of.<br \/>\n* See the degrees of separation between different screennames.<br \/>\nThis kind of map, I think, would be more useful in a flexible, open  environment than in a rigid, closed environment.<br \/>\nIn a rigid, closed environment, like American high schools, people already know what cliques they&#8217;re part of (jocks, nerds), and don&#8217;t have a lot of choices about changing them.<br \/>\nIn flexible environment, you could visualize groups that you were a small number of degrees of separation from, and join the group, by participating in an activity, joining a conversation, or getting an introduction.<br \/>\nIn an open environment, you might learn things about the social network that you didn&#8217;t already know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As linked by Slashdot,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prDRq-4Z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}