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Monday, March 3. 2008

Friend Density Maps on FaceBook

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Reader Kyle passed along news of a new Facebook app called Friend Density. It does what you'd think - plots the density (thematic heat map of sorts) of where your friends are. Apparently at launch it was not worldwide, but is now.

A few comments on The Wall note that this app is of interest to a few geography majors. Says one:

As a geography major and frequent GIS user, this is the first facebook application that I felt compelled to get!


In other Facebook news, Net Ventures, a Sydney-based development outfit that built "Shout Out," won Sensis' app contest and $15,000. It locates friends either as a Facebook plug in or a stand-alone app. The contest is for apps that use Sensis' Whereis platform.

- ZDnet Australia

Posted by Adena Schutzberg in Social Networking at 06:00 | Comments (2) | Trackbacks (0)

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I love how you tend to talk down any of the Google mash-up apps that come out -- or question them -- yet make anything relative to MS or Facebook sound like a brilliant discovery. Just sayin'. It's kind of obvious.
#1 Daniel (Link) on 2008-03-03 09:11 (Reply)
Oh, nevermind. I see, there's the whole 'widget hype' thing going on in the press release / article feeds via the markets.

I see.
#1.1 Daniel (Link) on 2008-03-03 09:24 (Reply)

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