Crumbs!

With the rising popularity of these location-based services like foursquare and Latitude, I’ve been putting a lot of thought into what this kind of social network might look like when not visualised on a map.

I’d also been hearing a lot about Processing, and i figured this was a good way to give it a shot.

Here’s what i’ve come up with:

Oh, and its interactive, so you can drag the nodes around. they will “spring” back to the appropriate distance from the central node (“me”).

Eventually, i’d like to have it auto-fetch the latitude data. I’m not sure if it is worth the effort to do so before Google makes some kind of latitude api, so i may just wait that one out. It really needs some color. i’m thinking first, we grab the latitude user photos, then color code the edges based on some random criteria.