http://www.metafilter.com/tags/threedegrees Posts tagged with 'threedegrees' at MetaFilter. Sun, 07 Sep 2008 21:20:46 -0800 Sun, 07 Sep 2008 21:20:46 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/74690/The%2DThird%2DDegree The tech business world has forever hyped the idea of "virtual communities," but it appears that the internet is actually making us <a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/09/03/six-degrees-of-separation-is-now-three/">more connected</a>. Back in 1967, Stanley Milgram (of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment">Milgram Experiment</a> fame), proposed that we are all connected, on average, by six degrees of separation. The idea rapidly entered the popular consciousness, spawning <a href="http://www.thekevinbacongame.com/">a parlor game</a>, and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0679734813/metafilter-20/ref=nosim/">a hit play</a> (and subsequent movie.) When it was discovered that Milgram never verified his hypothesis, <a href="http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=e-mail-study-corroborates">others did</a>. However, a brand new study has shown that <a href="http://www.o2.com/media/press_releases/latest_pr_14276.asp">only three degrees</a> are necessary within a shared interest network. While it's easy to poke fun at the <a href="http://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/virtual-friendship-and-the-new-narcissism">narcissism of the Facebook and MySpace generation</a>, the communities that they create may actually bring <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/29181">people closer together</a>. (<a href="http://www.metafilter.com/54718/Six-n1-degrees-of-separation">previously</a> on <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/28088/Six-Degrees-of-Metafilter">Metafilter</a>.) tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.74690 Sun, 07 Sep 2008 21:20:46 -0800 community internet milgram sixdegrees threedegrees CheeseDigestsAll http://www.metafilter.com/23839/BaconGates%2DLove%2DChild <a href="http://www.threedegrees.com/">Kevin Bacon and Bill Gates spawn love child.</a> In a surprisingly un-clumsy attempt to a) figure out what teens really like to do online, b) <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/news/873455.asp?0dm=-118K">create an app to tap into this behavior</a>, and c) rule world, <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2000/05-30netgen.asp">a skunkworks project</a> inside MS has beta released the surprisingly clued-in <a href="http://www.threedegrees.com/">threedegrees.</a> It most literally rocks. tag:metafilter.com,2003:site.23839 Tue, 25 Feb 2003 06:48:20 -0800 billgates kevinbacon microsoft sixdegrees skunkworks threedegrees i blame your mother