I tried out a new social graphing service today called Immersion that gives me data about my gmail collaboration with others in visual graph form. It was created by three individuals at MIT and it only accesses the To, From and timestamps of emails so there’s no actual reading of my emails.
It has a slider which lets you adjust the time frame for the emails as well as three interactive sliders to adjust some graph variables.
It is also smart enough to know how some of my contacts are connected to each other.
This is a snapshot of my data from my first email up to this moment in time and will change depending on future email interactions. And the ranking of my email collaborators is based on my gmail usage alone. It doesn’t take into account any other email accounts I may use.
Another cool online toy to play with that will be much more beneficial to some people than others.
