On: The Faces of Facebook – Visualizing 1.2 billion Fa...

[lifeformed]

I'm not sure what I'm looking at here... all I see is a giant zoomable grid of chromatic noise. Is it supposed to be showing peoples pictures or something?

[geekrax → lifeformed]

A facebook profile picture of smallest dimension (50px X 50px) will have minimum size of 3 kb.. So, if this site will show real profile pics all together, it'll have to load almost 3.5 TB of data for 1.2 billion pictures.. A connection with 100Kb/s downloading speed will take around 430 days, and a connection with 1MB/s will take around 42 days..

I don't think anyone would be interested to spend more than 2 minutes on this page.

[MildlySerious → geekrax]

And on day 41 the browser crashes. Oh well.

[spyder → geekrax]

Google Maps

[dsl → lifeformed]

I had to unblock Facebook Connect in Ghostery and AdBlock before it worked.

[elwell → lifeformed]

I thought that at first, but then the faces started loading finally. You do have to be zoomed in for that to occur.

[Killswitch → lifeformed]

Use your scroll wheel to zoom in (like Google Maps) or click in an area and it'll zoom in.

[swat535 → lifeformed]

same here i was expecting to see actual profile images..

[martin_ → swat535]

You do, if you zoom in.