News

A different way to look at the network

9 Oct 2009

Since the middle of August the crawler has been recording the time when hubs join and leave the network. This allows for certain time based trends to be realized. The hub is identified by its IP address. One way to visualize a set of IP addresses is with the Hilbert curve which was made popular [...]
Two new experimental features

3 Oct 2009

A few weeks ago two new features were released. The first is a world map view of the country page and the second shows how the network size changes over time. World Map The world map shows two different data sets. Red circles represent where hubs say they are located. The size of the circle indicates how [...]
Network size

25 May 2009

The network size is now featured on the front page once again. When the new crawler was implemented that statistic had to be dropped because it was too resource intensive to calculate with how the new crawler worked. But now that issue has been resolved. Some background The number of leaves on the network isn’t a good [...]
A Quick Update

12 Feb 2009

I haven’t made a post in awhile so I thought I should. Not much is going on with the crawler right now. I’ve been pretty busy lately and haven’t had any time to spend on improving the crawler. However there were a few subtle updates to many of the webpages. More detailed descriptions were added to [...]