Tomodachi

See the old page.

Tell me who you walk with and I will say who you are.

Tomodachi is a program that shows graphically the the way that you, your friends and other people in Orkut's network are connected. To be able to use it, you must necessarily be an Orkut member.

Some people say that you and any other living person in the world are no more than six degrees of known people apart. This means that a friend of a friend of a friend of a friend of a friend of yours may well know the Pope or Michael Jackson or Nelson Mandela or even Tomodachi's developers.

Don't you know what is Orkut? Orkut is a social network website. This means that an Orkut member can search, among all Orkut members, for her friends (or relatives or classmates or acquaintances or whatever) and add them to her list of friends. If someone is not in the Orkut network, an Orkut member (and only an Orkut member) can send her an invitation to join it. Someone can after navigate through these friends lists and know who are the friends of her friends or the friends of the friends of the friends of her friends and so on. Besides that, there are also communities that are a kind of Internet forums created by Orkut members.

If you want to know more about Orkut or social networks, you could take a look at our links section.

Personally, it seems that one of Orkut staff's aims is to ease dates between friends of friends. A funny tool is the crush list. When two persons put each other in their crush list, an e-mail is sent to them, informing of this mutual interest.

But in all this "friend of your friends" thing, we missed a way to visualize through graphs things like "did our friends knew each other?" or "has someone recently joined Orkut and all my friends have added her to their friends list except me?". We expect that Tomodachi will help filling this gap.

I've just started using Drupal as Content Management System of Tomodachi's site. But you can still access the old page or the old news.