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Slideshow: Making Friendsters in High Places

The online networking service Friendster is growing so rapidly, it will hit 1 million users this week. It's also inspiring new additions to the English language, and users are trying to sell access to their Friendster networks on eBay. By Leander Kahney.
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Friendster engineers have built this prototype interface that lets users see their social networks as an array of faces arranged like a spider's web on their screens. This visualization is of Friendster engineer NickG's network.

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Dav Coleman built an interactive visualization of his network of friends -- and friends of friends -- across the globe. Coleman's map of his global social connections shows thousands of points representing people all over the world with whom he shares a social connection, with each pane representing one more degree of social separation from Dav.