Friend Network Analysis

= Social Graph analysis tools

Description

"Name 3 people whom you admire, despise, work with or otherwise pay attention to and tools like HiveMind, Follower Wonk and Twiangulate will quickly calculate who all those people are following in common on Twitter. Tell those services who you are and they'll expose the people from that list that you aren't yet following yourself.

Services like this stand in an interesting place online: they aren't too hard to build and they delivery huge value to their users, but so far they have had a hard time getting people to try them out.

Using social network data is easiest with Twitter today, because of its more open nature, but this kind of work is being done on top of Facebook as well." (http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/george_stephanopoulos_wolf_blitzer_ana.php)