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Project palantir (video)

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Real time visualization of Facebook actions, using jME. Created at one of our hackathons.

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techcrunch.com - 11/23/2008

Facebook’s Project Palantir: Beautiful Visualization Of People Connecting

— 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 ... (more) Facebook’s Project Palantir: Beautiful Visualization Of ...

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