http://gigaom.com/2010/02/08/the-7-somewhat-united-states-of-facebook/ Thu, 23 May 2013 08:53:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://gigaom.com/2010/02/08/the-7-somewhat-united-states-of-facebook/#comment-550076 Tue, 14 Dec 2010 15:02:09 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=97630#comment-550076 [...] do with some of the site’s profile data, before he was threatened with a lawsuit. Pete Warden scraped information from millions of profiles and then analyzed it to see the connections between states and between countries, and drew [...]

]]> http://gigaom.com/2010/02/08/the-7-somewhat-united-states-of-facebook/#comment-239444 Thu, 01 Apr 2010 19:37:53 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=97630#comment-239444 [...] network both in the U.S. and in countries around the world. We highlighted some of that research in this post, which showed how Warden’s analysis had come up with seven distinct segments of the United [...]

]]> http://gigaom.com/2010/02/08/the-7-somewhat-united-states-of-facebook/#comment-239443 Thu, 01 Apr 2010 15:18:09 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=97630#comment-239443 [...] network both in the U.S. and in countries around the world. We highlighted some of that research in this post, which showed how Warden’s analysis had come up with seven distinct segments of the United [...]

]]> http://gigaom.com/2010/02/08/the-7-somewhat-united-states-of-facebook/#comment-239442 Sat, 13 Mar 2010 23:10:02 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=97630#comment-239442 [...] The 7 somewhat United States of Facebook [...]

]]> http://gigaom.com/2010/02/08/the-7-somewhat-united-states-of-facebook/#comment-239441 Thu, 25 Feb 2010 10:56:04 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=97630#comment-239441 [...] Peter Warden has a great post up on his blog that looks at how Facebook users in different states are connected to each.  He finds that the U.S. can be divided into roughly seven regions, which are visualized above.  Be sure to read the full post. [...]

]]> http://gigaom.com/2010/02/08/the-7-somewhat-united-states-of-facebook/#comment-239440 Tue, 16 Feb 2010 19:11:26 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=97630#comment-239440 [...] This, right here, is why you don’t invite engineers to parties.  For the past six months, Pete Warden has been data mining your Facebook account.   We’ll get to why this is creepy in a second.  Word on the street is he currently has 215 million public profile pages, which are then updated once a month.  Apparently Warden, an ex-Apple-engineer turned entrepreneur, started this “social graph analysis” effort after being frustrated with the maze of personnel at Apple.  Apparently,  like any large company, working through the maze of people to find the expertise or contacts you need can be a challenge.  Warden set out to build a company to solve that specific problem.  His analysis of user profiles suggests that Facebook can be divided into seven (mostly) distinct regions according to how connected the users are (or aren’t) with their friend networks.  Read the full story here. [...]

]]> http://gigaom.com/2010/02/08/the-7-somewhat-united-states-of-facebook/#comment-239439 Sun, 14 Feb 2010 20:38:06 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=97630#comment-239439 I think this map shows general patterns of connections between people. That might mean people around Seattle, and in Mormonia, connect more with people in their own smaller area, whereas people in the Eastern timezone have a broader pattern of Facebook connections.

]]> http://gigaom.com/2010/02/08/the-7-somewhat-united-states-of-facebook/#comment-239438 Sun, 14 Feb 2010 10:26:06 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=97630#comment-239438 [...] The 7 Somewhat United States of America – A pretty interesting study of collections of people across the country using Facebook. I guess it’s not all bad. [...]

]]> http://gigaom.com/2010/02/08/the-7-somewhat-united-states-of-facebook/#comment-239437 Fri, 12 Feb 2010 18:16:12 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=97630#comment-239437 Greater Texas represent! And we’re about to invade Mormonia and take no prisoners.

]]> http://gigaom.com/2010/02/08/the-7-somewhat-united-states-of-facebook/#comment-239436 Fri, 12 Feb 2010 12:57:13 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=97630#comment-239436 [...] The 7 Somewhat United States of Facebook from Gigaom [...]

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