We've seen applications which use your Facebook data to do social network analysis. At MIT Media Lab, they now offer another option: using your email. Using an app called Immersion, you can visualize your social network based on your email. While there is an obvious limitation here: that this analysis would only be based on the specific email address used, it is still an interesting tool.
A Wired article about Immersion notes an interesting implication: "In short, [Immersion] offers a glimpse of the other side of privacy in the age of
Big Data: It’s not just what data governments have, it’s what tools
they have to process it."
via Wired.
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At the moment, limited to Gmail, but other types to come.
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