Your contacts included in social networks like Facebook and LinkedIn, or part of your address book from Gmail or Outlook can serve as a means of PeopleMaps to indicate the connections that lead to unknown professional or a large company.

Created by the 7 Degrees, the PeopleMaps requests access to the User Account on Facebook, LinkedIn, Yahoo Mail and Gmail, and allow the publication of the contact file from Microsoft Outlook, to assemble a map of the contacts digital internet user.

Once the information from different sources is consolidated, the map (in JavaScript) separates the contacts as the initials of the surnames, centralizing the user.

Double click on each group detailing which are listed there, with colors indicating whether the contact is professional, academic or personal. Colleagues past or present are connected automatically to the company that describes the user used to work.

With the graph structure, the PeopleMaps allows the User to search among specific companies or professionals. The results show how connections between the contacts of the user in the various social networks can be combined to achieve an executive or an agency, for example.The service can be viewed as an exercise that tests the theory of six degrees of connection, proposed in 1967 by researcher Stanley Milgram, that anyone is only six connections from anyone else on the planet.

The experiment was used as the basis for the book “Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age.”

Via: People Maps.