My Pre-Pre-Pre-Alpha FriendFeed Compatibility Index
Earlier this week in my FriendFeed article, I mentioned an aspiring developer and statistician named Yuvi Panda, or The StatBot. In the last couple of days, he has been playing with the FriendFeed API and has come up with an interesting stat: the FriendFeed Compatibility Index.
Essentially, this algorithm looks at the articles that a certain person has liked (currently the the latest 300 liked articles), then keeps a list of all the other people that liked the same articles. The people who have the highest number of the same articles liked are at the top of the list!
Simple, but also revealing! Take a look at my list:
- shey – 66
- bhc3 – 50
- susanbeebe – 48
- scobleizer – 43
- atul – 39
- mitchelltsai – 33
- mikereynolds – 30
- louisgray – 30
- nikpay – 29
- solacetech – 29
- mortonfox – 28
- ontarioemperor – 26
- jbaldwinconnect – 26
- anjrued – 26
- dobata – 25
- trishussey – 25
- sarahintampa – 25
- itafroma – 23
- voyagerfan5761 – 23
- furry – 22
- bwana – 21
- fpettit – 20
- thomashawk – 20
- robdiana – 20
- charlieanzman – 19
As you can see, of 300 articles, Shey comes out on top with 66 similar likes. However, Shey also tops many other people’s lists — I am thinking Shey just loves to like stuff!
If you head over to Yuvi’s article, you can see more compatibility lists. Worth a read!
Update: I forgot to include some other conversations surrounding this type of stat. Felix has posted his own quick’n'dirty utility looking at the last 30 300 likes. Mark Trapp posted about it here, and Hutch posted here.