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May 3, 2008 in history and current events

The interlocking directorates, today: Toby Segaran makes a map of corporate board membership showing the 212 most connected of the top 400 companies by market capitalization. Louis Brandeis would be so pleased.

Click on the image to see the original blog post, which contains a larger image. Oh, and notice Toby got his data from Freebase, which is totally awesome.

9 comments

May 3, 2008 at 7:17 am

eric

Actually, you know what else looks really cool? Lazybase. I’ll have to play with that.

May 3, 2008 at 8:52 am

Ben Alpers

Thanks, eric! I was totally unaware of Freebase, which seems like it could be potentially very interesting and, as its name suggests, a totally addictive time sink.

May 4, 2008 at 11:12 am

Shosha

That’s really scary!!!

May 4, 2008 at 11:15 am

john p

The program or the fact that they’re all connected? Doesn’t shock me.

May 4, 2008 at 11:24 am

Shosha

That they’re all connected.

May 4, 2008 at 12:32 pm

student

I heard that there’s public databases like Freebase with all professors’ salaries on it.