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IT'S easy to forget how much the internet has revolutionised global communication in the past decade – until you see it with your own eyes.
A video released by social networking website Facebook shows how the web has made global conversations a part of everyday life.
Nicknamed Project Palantir, the visualisation maps interactions between users of the website to a three-dimensional globe. Messages from one user to another are shown as comets flying between countries.
Other types of activities such as status updates are shown on the globe as white dots rising into space from the location of the user.
The program was developed during the latest Facebook Hackathon event organised last month. "Hackathons" are collaborative events in which programmers get together to work on new ideas.
Facebook is considering making the application – created by Jack Lindamood, Kevin Der and Dan Weatherford – official, but at the moment it is only a demo, TechCrunch reported.
Other ideas suggested by users in the lead-up to Facebook Hackathon XI included video chat, support for Microsoft Office documents and the ability to change the appearance of profile pages.
In the past, ideas and programs made at the developer events have been adopted by Facebook and released officially – including Facebook Chat and the friend suggester.
"Facebook Hackathons have been the starting point for all sorts of new features that rapidly became mainstays of the site," said engineer Pedram Keyani in a blog post.
"Not every experiment pays off right away, but it’s a low-risk, high-reward setting that encourages engineers to bring to life some of the great ideas that are floating around here."
Many developers create unofficial visualisations of web data drawn from companies like Google to test their technical skills and make the information more accessible to everyday users.
One example is the unofficial Google city proximity visualisation, which attempts to show the strength of relationships between cities around the world by measuring the number of times they are mentioned together on the web.
Links
Facebook Project Palantir demo – http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=37403547...
Facebook Hackathon blog post – http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=31942383919
Google city proximity visualisation – http://www.bestiario.org/research/citydistances/
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