LJNet

patrickbarry.com/projects/ljnet/

 

Notes

 

LJNet is an interactive visualization of LiveJournal.com members' social networks. It shows the friends and friends of friends of any given LJ member in an aesthetic and easy to read network - the first image below shows how the friends of our first sample member (b1uebutterf1y) are displayed around her icon (sorted into cliques), their interonnections amongst themselves are shown by curves, and any of their friends not already in the primary ellipse are placed in parabolas further out from them (repeated 2nd degree friends are repeated in multiple parabolas). The user can simultaneously browse the networks of friendship connections and interest matches amongst all these displayed members. The user can do this by clicking on any user in the display - any non-friends of theirs will fade away and any member that shares interests with the clicked member will gain a translucent yellow halo (sized in relation to their shared interests). This is shown in the 2nd image below - my own icon has been selected within b1uebutterf1y's network, so all members of relevance to me (friends or interest matches) are made prominent. Lastly, the network can be browsed by hovering over member icons. This causes their image to enlarge (and if copies exist in any parabolas, they will too), and information about interest matches with the currently clicked-on member will be displayed at the bottom.

Done