Rattle wrote:
] For several months now, work has been underway building the
] next version of MemeStreams. It has been necessary to recode
] most of the site from scratch, so its taking awhile. At any
] given time the trials of life, lack of funding, bad timing,
] hardware failure, and general bad luck is screwing up the
] works. However, we _are_ making progress.
]
] Just before the new year, I hit the point in the development
] process where new capabilities of mining and graphing social
] network data were becoming available. I decided to go off on
] a little tangent, embrace the milestone, and do something to
] show our technology's progress. The result is the Year in
] Graphs 2003. Over the course of putting this together I've
] wound up fixing all kinds of problems with our database
] conversion code and wrote much of what will become the new
] graphing engine. I even had a really good "eureka" moment in
] relation to some of our network theory.. Its been time
] usefully spent.
]
] That being said, this is all very kludgy. I did not spend
] that much time crossing I's and dotting T's.. The fonts in
] the nodes are hard to read, some of the graphs look
] "squished", its missing the "Show Links" feature the current
] Social Network portion of the sites has, etc.. There is much
] room for improvement with our graphing. I look forward to
] additional feedback.. :)
]
] While these graphs may be fun to look at, the data they are
] built with is what's really exciting.. The same thing that
] allowed me to make these graphs is what's going to lead to
] improvements in the capabilities of the Reputation Agent.
]
] Anyway, I hope you all enjoy browsing through this review of
] the past year!

Thanks alot, guys.

BTW: Are you aware that the search engine blows? I think it could use an overhaul.

RE: MemeStreams - The Year in Graphs 2003