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Facebook’s Project Palantir: Beautiful Visualization Of People Connecting
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www.techcrunch.com — A group of Facebook engineers - Jack Lindamood, Kevin Der and Dan Weatherford - have created a small project called Palantir at a Facebook Hackathon event. The project is named after The palantír of Orthanc , a crystal ball-like object from The Lord Of The Rings (yep, they’re nerds).  ...

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Visualizing Facebook from outer space
Webware.com — ... Some Facebook engineers came up with a visualization of user activity by the social network's 120 million active users across the planet. According to TechCrunch, the concept (named The ...

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TechBlog — ... - Virgin lets 100 geeks take a charter flight to test its new in-flight Wi-Fi service. As the Eagles once sang, this could be heaven, or this could be hell. • Facebook's Project Palantir: Beautiful Visualization Of People Connecting - Only a video available. No live application, and this being Facebook, it's certainly not available off the site. • ...

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