• very highly-connected area
  • slo town - emdot
  • Yogalila? - txkimmers
  • me.

    it isn't easy being green. - striatic
  • As far away from center as you can get, while still being green and connected. Kind of like living in Kentucky. - drp

Network of testimonials: flickr's social network

The main cluster of the network of testimonials. Red are staff; green are some particularly highly connected individuals.
See some discussion in FlickrCentral.

Comments and faves

  1. ★

    Big Youth, joaobambu, malthe, kazuhide, and 35 other people added this photo to their favorites.

  2. Trinity (89 months ago | reply)

    That reminds me of this.

    Only a testimonial does not equal sex.

  3. GustavoG (89 months ago | reply)

    Yes, niznoz pointed it out too.
    Same concept, really.

  4. brendadada (89 months ago | reply)

    Ooh. GG you are a genius.

    Have been meaning to write more testimonials. Will do it now.

    Couldn't find Selkie?

    edit:
    okay, east of striatic, south east of catarina. less connected than I expected. surprising, that.

  5. joaobambu (89 months ago | reply)

    Cool, I am connected to Fubuki. He is my Jedi Master and Sensei! This is really fascinating; love taking the complex and simplifying it visually. Good job and thank you!

  6. auntiebs (89 months ago | reply)

    Totally fascinating, Gustavo.

    thank you!

  7. Metahari (89 months ago | reply)

    What are the blank dots representing?

  8. GustavoG (89 months ago | reply)

    Unlabeled nodes represent people that have not yet set their own Flickr address. The numerical userids are not so pretty to display. :)

  9. striatic (88 months ago | reply)

    you've probably already figured this out gustavo, but the heavily connected area is GNErs.

    hm .. you know .. this is sort of how i imagined GNE might look like after players had explored and expanded a little and created a bunch of new hubs.

    hm .. maybe someone needs to create a game, using the API and piggy backing the existing flickr contacts system.

    keep it simple, like each mutual relationship produces a certain material depending on whether it is friend to contact, contact to contact, family to friend etc.

    the number of photos uploaded represents the volume of material produce and the number of favourites the quality of the material.

    and people could hop around this network picking up different resources, trading them, discovering rich veins {lots of favourites}

    sort of a game based way to photo browse.

  10. GustavoG (88 months ago | reply)

    Cool ideas. Actually themexican just mailed me a set of suggestions for further analyses, some of which overlap with yours. I'll need more wakefulness to make full sense of them all, though. ;)

  11. joaobambu (88 months ago | reply)

    I think it's time to write a testimonial for GustavoG!

    Is there a caste system on Flickr?
    Or maybe like Plato's Republic;
    Men of Gold, Silver, Bronze,
    and PRO!

  12. tp (88 months ago | reply)

    I dont see myself anywhere, but that looks like a lot of work.

  13. { cary } (88 months ago | reply)

    Wow...what more can I say?!

  14. drp (88 months ago | reply)

    Exceptional work, Gustavo. I find all of this very intriguing. Where were you when I needed to finish my geometry homework in high school?

  15. Pixel y Dixel (88 months ago | reply)

    Have you seen Flickr Graph? (Marcos Weskamp project)

  16. GustavoG (88 months ago | reply)

    Certainly. See the FlickrCentral thread. :)

  17. knuddelbacke (87 months ago | reply)

    What a great idea and work! Wow.

  18. KCET DOT ORG (44 months ago | reply)

    Hi, I'm an admin for a group called SoCal Connected Flickr Pool, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

    We'd like to use it to illustrate a blog post on social networks. SoCal Connected is a part of KCET - Southern California Community Television and is a non-profit group.

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