This video started cropping up on Facebook and in a TechCrunch post over the weekend, then appeared in a Mashable post this morning. Created by a team of FB engineers during an in-house "hackathon", it mashes person-to-person activity data with geo data to show just how much 'real time' social interaction happens on Facebook every second. The end result is a NASA-style glimpse of the Earth from space, traversed by a pretty lively set of lines representing a host of person-to-person connections (updates, uploads, requests, comments, pokes, sharing, etc.) Although the primary objective of the video is to show off the visualization technology, the amount of second-by-second activity shown just in the demo helps to make a compelling case for the global mainstreaming of social networking. Super nerdy but wicked cool.[Feed and email readers should click through to the blog or hit YouTube directly to watch the embedded video clip.]
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