Hutch Carpenter had post about what he called the “Friendfeed Likeability Index”, calculated them for a tiny sample of his own likes, and found them pretty good convincing…
And ofcourse a totally hot conversation started off on Friendfeed about this (interestingly, not only on Hutch Carpenter’s original post, but on one that Louis Gray shared).
Now, Friendfeed has a totally hawt bug that prevents any serious data collection (I discovered this to my dismay after building a backend to Friendfeed for my Stats app), so I can analyse only the last 300 likes. Still, there was enough support for it, so I went ahead and built it.
First Target: LouisGray
Obvious, isn’t it? The ‘face of Friendfeed’? 
Here is the list of top 25 people who liked the same stuff LouisGray liked:
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Rank |
User |
Shared-Likes |
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1 |
84 |
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2 |
78 |
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3 |
61 |
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4 |
51 |
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5 |
49 |
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6 |
43 |
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7 |
40 |
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8 |
35 |
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9 |
34 |
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10 |
32 |
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11 |
30 |
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12 |
29 |
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13 |
28 |
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14 |
27 |
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15 |
25 |
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16 |
25 |
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17 |
24 |
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18 |
24 |
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19 |
23 |
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20 |
23 |
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22 |
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22 |
22 |
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23 |
22 |
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24 |
21 |
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25 |
20 |
I’ve followed some new folks with this – notably, Shey, Atul and Susan Beebe. Certainly helps discover new folks. And, not many “A-List” Celebs here – Excepting a few.
Since Scoble comes in at No.4, rumors of Louis and Scoble marrying so that they can “like” each other in public seem to be totally exaggerated (People who do not frequent friendfeed are expected to get the joke by following this link and reading the 6th comment by Alexander van Elsas)
Secondary Target: Robert Scoble
Shiny new thing hunter, Friendfeed enthusiast, and ofcourse, wants to be at the top of every single list! 
Here’s his list:
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Rank |
User |
Shared Likes |
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1 |
Mitchell Tsai |
44 |
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2 |
32 |
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3 |
28 |
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4 |
27 |
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5 |
24 |
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6 |
22 |
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7 |
21 |
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8 |
21 |
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9 |
21 |
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10 |
20 |
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11 |
20 |
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12 |
19 |
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13 |
18 |
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14 |
16 |
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15 |
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16 |
14 |
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17 |
14 |
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18 |
14 |
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19 |
14 |
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20 |
13 |
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21 |
12 |
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22 |
11 |
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23 |
11 |
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24 |
11 |
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25 |
11 |
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26 |
11 |
Note that Scoble is way less similar to other people than Louis Gray – Louis Gray and Shey had 84 likes shared between them, while Scoble and Mitchell Tsai have only 44 between them. I’m not really too sure about how to interpret this (Both have same sample size, last 300 likes). Conducted some additional tests and I now know – Scoble spread out his last 300 likes to 202 users, while Louis spread his out to only 118 users. So, from this sample, it appears that Scoble is actually exploring more people than Louis Gray does. Interesting.
Note that this stuff is pretty non-representative, since the sample is only the last 300 likes from Louis and Scoble. Once FriendFeed fixes that bug, then the “real” analysis will be able to give us more insight. Maybe, more people shouting for that bug to be removed will get that bug to be removed? (wink, wink)
Want to see your “Friendfeed Likes Compatibility Index”? Comment here and I’ll post it as immediately as possible 
(Am not releasing the .NET Script I wrote since it’s too hacky. Still, if enough people are interested, I’ll clean it up and put it up somewhere)
40 responses so far ↓
1 Ontario Emperor // May 29, 2008 at 11:42 am
If you don’t mind, could you calculate them for ontarioemperor? I have this vision of myself as having extremely broad and varied interests, but I suspect that the truth is that I concentrate on the same CFOT (Clinton FriendFeed Obama Twitter) stuff that everyone else does..
2 Hutch Carpenter // May 29, 2008 at 11:45 am
Really, really good stuff! I’d love to see my stats as well. Good observations about the differences between Louis and Robert. Also, love the links to each user you’ve got here.
3 Thomas Hawk // May 29, 2008 at 11:48 am
Great stuff as always Yuvi. Would love to see mine!
4 Shey // May 29, 2008 at 11:54 am
Yuvi, another great analysis, that was very interesting.
Who’s the #1 Louis Gray stalker? This guy
It would be awesome if you could analyze mine as well, whenever you get around to it.
Cheers!
5 Yuvi // May 29, 2008 at 12:01 pm
I’ll be posting all you folks’ as soon as I can: Here is Thomas Hawk’s:
6 Yuvi // May 29, 2008 at 12:03 pm
Shey’s:
7 Dobromir Hadzhiev // May 29, 2008 at 12:05 pm
great job Yuvi, would love to see mine
8 Bwana McCall // May 29, 2008 at 12:07 pm
I’d like mine done as well Yuvi, thanks.
9 Yuvi // May 29, 2008 at 12:07 pm
These are Hutch Carpenter’s:
Shey tops this too!
10 J. Phil // May 29, 2008 at 12:09 pm
I don’t need to see mine, but I request that I appear on everyone else’s list. Thanks.
On second thought, I would like to see mine too.
11 Yuvi // May 29, 2008 at 12:15 pm
Ontario Emperor (Cool name, btw. Is this the guy who had no clothes on? :P) has this:
Susan who?
12 Yuvi // May 29, 2008 at 12:23 pm
Dobromir’s:
Shey - again!
13 Cyndy Aleo-Carreira // May 29, 2008 at 12:32 pm
Further proof that I march to the beat of my own drummer… note that I do not appear on ANYONE’S list.
14 Yuvi // May 29, 2008 at 12:35 pm
@Cyndy: That’s because you have ONLY 89 likes!
Update: I checked for you anyway, and found LouisGray first with 14 shared likes, Susan second with 13, and Hutch Carpenter 3rd with 11. Nobody else crossed 2 digits. Means, you don’t like as much as you should…
15 Cyndy Aleo-Carreira // May 29, 2008 at 12:40 pm
Meaning I’m SELECTIVE. A like from me counts over THREE TIMES as much as one from Louis or Scoble. They are diluting the value of their likes.
16 Hutch Carpenter // May 29, 2008 at 12:40 pm
Note to all. “bhc3″ is me. Your favorite stalker…
17 Yuvi // May 29, 2008 at 1:35 pm
@Cyndy: Well, GIRLS!
18 Yuvi // May 29, 2008 at 1:35 pm
@J. Phil: Sorry mate, but I can’t seem to find your FF Nick? (I’m pretty sure I missed it somewhere..)
19 Yuvi // May 29, 2008 at 2:03 pm
Bwana’s:
SHEY!
20 Yuvi // May 29, 2008 at 2:04 pm
A few insights:
Many of the people here are heavy “likers” - Shey, Atul, Susan Beebe, Hutch Carpenter, etc…. Not too sure how many Likes actually were read though…
21 Yuvi // May 29, 2008 at 2:09 pm
Okay, found Phil was eng1ne from twitter
SHEY again! Stalker, Stalker!
22 Cyndy Aleo-Carreira // May 29, 2008 at 3:27 pm
Maybe it’s just that Shey is a more POSITIVE person than I am.
23 Chris Nixon // May 29, 2008 at 3:58 pm
Awesome! Do mine! Do Mine! (chrisnixon)
24 Slippy Lane // May 29, 2008 at 6:08 pm
I suppose the only thing close to a workaround to the 11-page and 300-comment limits would be to have a big ol’ cache, but obviously that would be completely unfeasible for most applications. Anyone got a big enough stack’o’servers to mirror friendfeed? lol
25 Russellreno // May 29, 2008 at 6:15 pm
I would like to see mine if you haven’t lost interest by now. Also, if you would list Edythe I would then have 5 of the 10 people who find me most interesting.
26 Charlie Anzman // May 29, 2008 at 9:49 pm
and I get e-mails asking if I’m OK because I didn’t post today? I’m too busy following these other guys !!!!
As for Cyndy, there’s something to be said for ‘marching to a different drummer’ and/or ‘leading, not following’. In fact, I’ve got a piece half written on it.
Overall, I think everyone should take all of Yuvi’s finds (and those in the comments) and add them all to your Twitter AND Friendfeed lists. Then we can really get the dialog ‘outside the box’.
Sound good?
27 J. Phil // May 29, 2008 at 10:05 pm
Thanks for the list, Yuvi!
28 Alex Hammer // May 29, 2008 at 10:24 pm
Good post.
29 FriendFeed ‘Likes’ Index: Case Study in Value of Distributed Conversations « I’m Not Actually a Geek // May 30, 2008 at 1:11 am
[...] Yuvi blogged about it, linking to my blog post and even mentioning me by name. Everything a blogger could [...]
30 Mitchell Tsai // May 30, 2008 at 5:47 am
Lovely job with the stats Yuvi! These stats are much richer than the FriendFeed stats (only 9 of each). Just started following (aka “stalking”) you on FriendFeed.
If you have time to do mine, I’d love the feedback. Seems like a great way to discover new people!
Robert Scoble was my biggest “finds you interesting” (since overtaken by edythe & Anthony Farrior, and dropped to #3), while I’m his biggest “like-stalker”.
31 [scribkin] My Pre-Pre-Pre-Alpha FriendFeed Compatibility Index // May 30, 2008 at 7:01 am
[...] Earlier this week in my FriendFeed article, I mentioned an aspiring developer or and statistician named Yuvi Panda, or The StatBot. In the last couple of days, he has been playing with the FriendFeed API and has come up with an interesting stat: the FriendFeed Compatibility Index. [...]
32 Friendfeed Like Compatibility Calculator // May 30, 2008 at 9:37 am
[...] check out Yuvi’s work is totally awesome and I hadn’t noticed but his was up before mine. A bunch of folks are looking at this data, [...]
33 Solacetech // May 30, 2008 at 1:46 pm
Yikes! I’m in the top ten of almost everyone of those lists(I’m Anthony Farrior also). What does that mean? Am I not selective enough? Half of the users I haven’t heard of. I like the articles/posts/stuff they submit to FF…..What does that mean?
34 Solacetech // May 30, 2008 at 7:27 pm
hi Yuvi,
may i have one of those pie charts for ff please?
thanx
35 Ontario Emperor // May 30, 2008 at 9:38 pm
Yuvi, I’m sorry about not thanking you until now, but the comments didn’t display properly when I tried to view them on my work computer. (I blame IE6.)
I think the next request is obvious - run Susan Beebe’s stats!
36 Weekly Recap 053008: ‘No Comment’ « I’m Not Actually a Geek // May 31, 2008 at 1:10 am
[...] handle he entered…a bunch of us wanted our stats manually calculated, and he obliged…he blogged about it, and hit Techmeme…very nice [...]
37 notes, thoughts, ideas and responses » The FriendFeed Toolbox Version 0.3 // May 31, 2008 at 12:09 pm
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38 Flickr Faves Compatibility Index - The StatBot - Fun stats. Visualizations. Leaderboards. // Jun 13, 2008 at 8:34 am
[...] stole the concept for the “FriendFeed Likes Compatibility Index” from Hutch Carpenter (you can find a working implementation here courtesy Felix (aka the [...]
39 Susan Beebe // Jun 14, 2008 at 3:16 pm
Hi Yuvi,
This is really great work you’ve done here! Glad I am already following you, you’re smart!
Please run my FF stats and publish here.
Looks like I am the Queen of FriendFeed with all my “Likes” and “Comments”! I see some new names to follow now!
Thank you!!
Susan Beebe on FF
@smbeebe on twitter!
40 Kevin Bondelli // Jul 7, 2008 at 4:18 am
Wow, I’m surprised how many of these I am on. I am such a creeper.
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