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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:

  1. shey – 66
  2. bhc3 – 50
  3. susanbeebe – 48
  4. scobleizer – 43
  5. atul – 39
  6. mitchelltsai – 33
  7. mikereynolds – 30
  8. louisgray – 30
  9. nikpay – 29
  10. solacetech – 29
  11. mortonfox – 28
  12. ontarioemperor – 26
  13. jbaldwinconnect – 26
  14. anjrued – 26
  15. dobata – 25
  16. trishussey – 25
  17. sarahintampa – 25
  18. itafroma – 23
  19. voyagerfan5761 – 23
  20. furry – 22
  21. bwana – 21
  22. fpettit – 20
  23. thomashawk – 20
  24. robdiana – 20
  25. 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 likesMark Trapp posted about it here, and Hutch posted here.


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  • http://comments.deasil.com/ felix

    Hey! Thanks for the link. :) With Yuvi's suggestions I just updated my script to pull in your last 300 likes. It also shows who you're already subscribed to, in case there's someone high in like compatibility you might want to follow.

    This was a really great idea!

  • http://www.scribkin.com J. Phil

    No problem at all, Felix. Thanks for whipping together something we can all play with in short order!

  • http://www.sheysmith.com Shey

    Dude I am the king of likes! Yuvi also suspects I'm a bot, but I'm not telling!

    In all seriousness though I think it's just a situation where we have a lot of in common in terms of things that interest us. Yes, I'm a pretty active user but there's a ton of stuff I like that you and other people's lists I've topped, don't.

    I still find these stats fascinating — thanks for the great work Yuvi, Mark and Felix!

  • http://www.scribkin.com J. Phil

    It's kind of scary to think that all the interests of pretty much everyone in my circle of friendfeed friends is a mere subset of your interests, Shey. Scary, and awesome.

    Phew! I think I've really abused the emphasis tag in this comment.

  • http://comments.deasil.com/2008/05/29/friendfeed-like-compatibility-calculator/ Friendfeed Like Compatibility Calculator

    [...] noticed but his was up before mine. A bunch of folks are looking at this data, too. Check out scribkin and Hutch’s look into how this all comes together, or comes apart as it were. ← newer [...]

  • http://www.sheysmith.com Shey

    Ah yes, the good ol' echo chambers :)

  • http://macrolinz.com BlueCockatoo

    Shey is just a likin' fool :) He's on the top of my list as well!

  • http://www.sheysmith.com Shey

    Whoo-hoo!

  • http://comments.deasil.com/ felix

    Hey! Thanks for the link. :) With Yuvi's suggestions I just updated my script to pull in your last 300 likes. It also shows who you're already subscribed to, in case there's someone high in like compatibility you might want to follow.

    This was a really great idea!

  • http://www.scribkin.com Phil Glockner

    No problem at all, Felix. Thanks for whipping together something we can all play with in short order!

  • http://www.sheysmith.com Shey

    Dude I am the king of likes! Yuvi also suspects I'm a bot, but I'm not telling!

    In all seriousness though I think it's just a situation where we have a lot of in common in terms of things that interest us. Yes, I'm a pretty active user but there's a ton of stuff I like that you and other people's lists I've topped, don't.

    I still find these stats fascinating — thanks for the great work Yuvi, Mark and Felix!

  • http://www.scribkin.com Phil Glockner

    It's kind of scary to think that all the interests of pretty much everyone in my circle of friendfeed friends is a mere subset of your interests, Shey. Scary, and awesome.

    Phew! I think I've really abused the emphasis tag in this comment.

  • http://www.sheysmith.com Shey

    Ah yes, the good ol' echo chambers :)

  • http://macrolinz.com BlueCockatoo

    Shey is just a likin' fool :) He's on the top of my list as well!

  • http://www.sheysmith.com Shey

    Whoo-hoo!