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[wispfox]

It's only taken me three million years to look at this, but...

Friend Cluster Viewer, found on entrochan's journal (also apparently created for her). (requires Java)

I appear to have two overlapping clusters. Boston, and not-Boston (and some outliers). I spent _way_ too much time just _staring_ at it.

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[entrochan.livejournal.com]

Well, I wouldn't go so far as to say it was created *for* me. Inspired by me is more like it.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

It's definitely stareworthy!

[bridgetester.livejournal.com]

*glares at it and waits for it to load*

[bridgetester.livejournal.com]

Neat. I still like TouchGraph better though, because the arrangement + zooming. A few groups were place outside the applet area...

[szasz.livejournal.com]

Ha. You're just trying to get me back for that movie you couldn't load. Firefox just gives me an unsupported class version error when trying to load that.

Interoperability! Whee!

[bridgetester.livejournal.com]

Try again. I couldn't get it to load the first time with Firefox, but the second worked.

[griffen.livejournal.com]

I've tried with all four of the browsers I have (Firefox, Mozilla, Safari and even *shudder* IE), and none of them work. I get the same error with all of them. :(

[szasz.livejournal.com]

No joy with Firefox at all, but Safari was able to load it. Interesting.

I seem to have FOUR clusters... one from the old U of I crowd, one of the people I know who are all joined together by IMSA-ness, one of psych-chicks that I know through Kate, and one of my Boston connections via signsoflife.

[wispfox.livejournal.com]

Fascinating!

I note that I was unable to get it to work under Linux (of course, I didn't try very hard).

[griffen.livejournal.com]

It doesn't work when I do it :( I get a Java error.

[wispfox.livejournal.com]

Sad!

I'm not sure what OS you're using, but if you're using Windows, bridgetester pointed out the TouchGraph LiveJournal Browser (http://www.touchgraph.com/TG_LJ_Browser.html). It's sorta similar, and for people with large friends lists, probably more useful (and also very stare-worthy!).

[griffen.livejournal.com]

Heh, no. I'm on a Macintosh.

[bridgetester.livejournal.com]

It's Java though, so twill run on a Mac. I should know.

[rosefox]

Crashed Safari. Bummer.

[wispfox.livejournal.com]

Well, _that's_ not very friendly of it! (Of course, it appears to not handle large friends lists very well)

If you've not already seen it, and are using Windows (damned if I can remember what you use for an OS), bridgetester pointed at the TouchGraph LiveJournal Browser (http://www.touchgraph.com/TG_LJ_Browser.html). It's slightly different, but I found it similarly stare-worthy (even if it _did_ make me run Windows to play with it! But then, I couldn't get the tool I mentioned in this post to run in Linux, either).

[bridgetester.livejournal.com]

For the people whose browsers aren't working with the link, try TouchGraph LiveJournal Browser (http://www.touchgraph.com/TG_LJ_Browser.html) instead. Takes more time to load, but it isn't particularly crashy.

[keyne.livejournal.com]

Is that Windows-only?

[bridgetester.livejournal.com]

Java. Twill run on nearly anything with up-to-date Java software.

[wispfox.livejournal.com]

Hmm.

I thought I remembered 'exe' being involved, but apparently not. I _do_ know that I couldn't get it to run on my Linux box, but I may have gotten bored with fiddling with it to get it to work.

[bridgetester.livejournal.com]

There's a bat file for a windows launcher, but it's not necessary. Try double-clicking the TG_LJ_Browser.jar file instead, if you feel like the trouble of downloading (http://www.touchgraph.com/TGLJB15.zip) it again? *curious*

[wispfox.livejournal.com]

Um...

It's actually fairly unusual for double-clicking to work in Linux. And, as I'm not sure what it's unhappy about, I can't figure it out. I _have_ Java, but damned if my browser believes me. Ah, well.

[bridgetester.livejournal.com]

*facepalm at doubleclicking* I'm still used to the BSD embedded within MacOS X...

This should work when typed in a terminal window:

java -cp TG_LJ_Browser.jar:nanoxml-2.1.1.jar:BrowserLauncher.jar com.touchgraph.googlebrowser.TGGoogleBrowser

Source from:
http://hublog.hubmed.org/archives/000394.html
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/archive/2/2004/04/4/173100

[regyt.livejournal.com]

I had one big huge pulsating mass, a small outlying group of HomeofPoi firespinny people, and a few people no one reads but me.

Now I want my entire flist to coalesce into an amorphous mass of pulsating protoplasm, pronto!

[wispfox.livejournal.com]

Now I want my entire flist to coalesce into an amorphous mass of pulsating protoplasm, pronto!

I realize that this would cause me to be involved in said mass, but the _idea_ is very stare-worthy. *staaaares*

[regyt.livejournal.com]

::the idea eeps! under the scrutiny and hops away::

[wispfox.livejournal.com]

Awwwww...

*hides behind something and peers out cautiously, hoping to not scare it further away*

[bridgetester.livejournal.com]

*squish*

[bridgetester.livejournal.com]

Yeah, mine does that too on a screen that small. There are a few clusters, but they're overwhelmed by the giant polygeek one.