Last friday you have seen this screen appears on pearltrees and some of you just tell me : what the hell is that???!!!???

Well, “that” is a vicinity map. It shows you the pearltrees that are close to the pearltrees in the middle of screen. On the screenshot “Barbey d’Aurevilly”. Of course the closest are on the first circle and so on…

How is that caculated? With a special algorythm made just for you we have called the tree rank. The idea of proximity is the more pearls you have in common the closest you are. So it calculates the “distance” from one pearltree to another for each pearltree.

Now you can explore your interest network, it mixes topics and editors acount because you can be close from topics as to persons.

PS : As we are not so many in the community for now sometimes it migh be strange for you to discover what or who you are close to, but imagine what it will when millions of people will edit their web…

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Filed under: Community, Platform, Trends, User Interface by Frocaboy on December 17th, 2008