That's very fancy and a great start! I hope more social graph networks release contextualized data like this. Despite the impressive visualization, I still find myself struggling to find the answers I really want:
1. Path (and distance) that a reshare traveled between the originator and the reshare I'm currently seeing in my stream.
2. Percentile (and absolute number) of reshares my reshare accounts for. That is, what volume of the total reshare tree my subtree is responsible for.
Bonus: Potential impressions (aka maximum reach) my reshare accounts for by counting the total unique audience for each reshare in my subtree.
It should be part of G+, because it's cool and google usually does cool things. But it is indeed useful only for the top % of users, because the average user doesn't get that many reshares.
PS: yes, I would really love to be able to build apps/games for G+ the same way I can for Facebook. If G+ would do that I bet developers would jump on the opportunity. It's going to be like .. Android vs the iPhone all over again
This is pretty off-topic, but is there some secret google setting that makes scrolling on a touchpad scroll instead of zooming? I'm sort of resigned to it in maps, but this thing has it too.
I know we talk a lot about privacy here and Google's requirement to use your real name. When seeing people's names and the network effects of events like this, it gets a bit unsettling. At least with Facebook, social networks and groups are relatively closed.
Update: Imagine the ability for a govt/group/organization to constrict the information flow by eliminating the strongest nodes in the sharing structure.
At least with Facebook, social networks and groups are relatively closed.
I'm no Facebook expert, but I believe that Facebook also has the three ingredients necessary to do this: 1) the ability to make public posts, 2) the concept of sharing posts, and 3) attribution of who the post came from when you share it.
It's not like this Google+ visualization is about private posts. The following page clearly says it is limited to those that are public.
I don't know why there's so much hostility towards G+. So what if it's not the best product yet or if it doesn't have feature X that you want, they are making improvements every single week. Ripples is just another cool thing, and you can choose to either use or not use it. At least they're improving at an incredible rate and adding features that at least some people (like me) really love.
I'll repeat that you can also choose not to use it and post irrelevant negative comments on whatever favorite social network you have.
1. Path (and distance) that a reshare traveled between the originator and the reshare I'm currently seeing in my stream.
2. Percentile (and absolute number) of reshares my reshare accounts for. That is, what volume of the total reshare tree my subtree is responsible for.
Bonus: Potential impressions (aka maximum reach) my reshare accounts for by counting the total unique audience for each reshare in my subtree.