We use as inspiration a ‘murmuration‘ of starlings, a beautiful natural phenomenon. In this visualisation the ‘murmuration’ flits between devices revealing the relationships and the patterns of network traffic in the studio. Although this sketch isn’t based on actual data on network traffic, it could be, and it seems that there is great scope in bringing more network activity to our attention, giving us a sense of its flows and patterns over time.

The network is part of our everyday lives. Seeing the network is the first step to understanding the network, acting on it, and gaining an everyday literacy in it. So what should it look like? These video sketches are part of our ongoing effort to find out – a glimpse of our first phase of research, there is more work in the pipeline that we hope to be able to talk about soon.

Also free version.

Some great points but he fails to mention the "mink oiled boots" syndrome: NO pureplay social network could succeed now because the era of pureplay social networks is waning fast; I don't think he appreciates that Google gets this, Page's purported obsession notwithstanding

RARE: lucid analysis of social network "participation" patterns and model #kudos #li #fb

An update from the CTO, from The Free Network Foundation http://freenetworkfoundation.org