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Facebook engineering intern Paul Butler used data taken from the firm’s massive Apache data warehouse.

Mr Butler chose ten million pairs of friends between cities at random and then stripped away any information that could identify the people behind them.

He then combined that data with each user’s current city and calculated the number of friends between each pair of cities. This data was then merged, in turn, with the longitude and latitude of each city. Supercool.

No big surprises in the latest data from Hitwise, December 2010

Great exhibition design and build from Sovereign Exhibitions….

This graph has leaked out of somewhere and purports to show the effect of the Paywall on the time online website. Allegedly. If its real, and it may well be, then the paywall isn’t working. Personally, I’d pay if it wasn’t so relatively expensive – there’s nothing in the Times for me I can’t get for free elsewhere…

I now have an office in central Oxford, just by the station, which is very handy for London clients wanting to meet up in Paddington. That aside, the complete lack of blog updates demonstrate how busy I have been, with some very interesting new Ecommerce clients, plus I’ve been doing some Internet video streaming, SEO and Google Analytics consultancy. As well as the obligatory social media work. As ever though, any question, thoughts or comments do get in touch.