Could you track this up for me: how did these people get together?

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Here's a web app that could be fun: feed a list of names (say, the people behind Meetup), and get the map of their connections (i.e. X and Y went to high school together, K worked for Z, A and J link to each other in their blogs). I bet you could reveal a lot of underlying social networks just from online information available to the public. Do I sound like an online stalker with an impulse for automation?

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