Dunno where this came from, but it’s a fun visualization of Orkut members in the NY region based on long/lat. It seems as though folks are already scraping Orkut….
geography of Orkut profiles: visualization
danah boyd | apophenia
making connections where none previously existed
Not just NY area; you can put in *any* zip. Haven’t tested it for lat/long outside the US yet.
danah, there was an Orkut announcement posted by the software’s maker:
http://s89693428.onlinehome.us/blog/archives/000216.html
–Ryan.
See also a tipology of bloggers communities at Orkut:
http://www.bitacoras.org/bit.php?id=23_0_1_0_C
Is this an Orkut sanctioned activity? If not I am interested how this fello got a hold of all of the names, and zip codes.
Is this an Orkut sanctioned activity? If not I am interested how this fellow got a hold of all of the names, and zip codes.
Personal names and city names are readily visible in orkut (if the user is using their real name and location)
I don’t think it would be too hard to make a bot that harvested these from the search page.
Seems like these datawhorehouse folks are up to other sorts of fun:
http://www.datawhorehouse.com/anapop.html
But what use is this? So many people who use POP3 clients leave them on most of the time, even when they’re sleeping or at the grocery store or what not…
Previously some Bay Area zip codes were missing, but now they’re back on the map.