That said, the clusters are really impressive. All of my clusters were basically just groups of people from different times/events of my life (highschool people/friends, college friends, colleagues, people I knew when I lived in Syracuse, etc). It's an obvious way to separate my groups of networks, and it was fast. That's useful in so many contexts
What if we were to identify your evangelists based on "cluster completion?" What I mean by this is that we'd look for clusters that go from being densely unregistered friend clusters to densely registered over time, and see which friend(s) were the catalyst(s).
From a purely consumer standpoint, I would use something like this to create my FB lists, if you made that easy. It's also useful when planning events. So, while I would personally never use it to send an app invite, I would use this if I was planning a party, and wanted to quickly see who I should invite and message, etc
We actually thought about offering this as a tool to a company like Paperless Post to speed up their process.
What do you think?
Either way, awesome work Tony & co!
Do you view the invites you receive as complete spam? I guess it might depend on the size of your college, and how open the college is to parties, events, etc.
This would be an awesome text-based adventure game, yeah?