Immersion: a people-centric view of your email life

This is really cool, and also kind of sad. It shows me who I've grown close with in recent times, but it also shows who I've lost to distance and changing circumstances. :'( I guess that's just life but it's poignant to see it so starkly lit in colored globes and slopes of graphs.

Hi, I&#x27;m one of the team members who has worked on this project. If you have any questions, I&#x27;d be happy to answer them.<p>There was another thread on HN about Immersion a few days ago [1]. Do check to see if any questions you have were already discussed there.<p>Thanks!<p>[1]: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5994203" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=5994203</a>

Thats a very good concept. Is there a way of developing it into a localized client? These days (and no offense to you) users would rather know they have control over their own data.

Is the source of this available? Not that I don&#x27;t trust you to run a service without security holes, but I&#x27;d prefer to run this on my local machine.

Neat stuff. I think I&#x27;ll pass on running it on my own account, but it&#x27;s really cool that it&#x27;s possible.<p>This could be really neat with a &#x27;play&#x27; button to run through e.g. a year&#x27;s span through the entire data-set, to show how groups rise and fall in significance. Unfortunately it&#x27;s <i>far</i> too slow to really support that :(

It&#x27;s not nearly as interesting, but if you&#x27;re (understandably) reluctant to connect your Gmail account, the demo data sets out fairly plainly how much can be established just from the to: and from: fields[1].<p>[1] <a href="https://immersion.media.mit.edu/demo" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;immersion.media.mit.edu&#x2F;demo</a>

Cool visualization. I use exchange at work and gmail at home. I&#x27;d like to see both in a local macos app. I guess a the simplest alternative is a local client that can talk to my exchange server to get my headers and address book then package it all up for processing.

Nice tool, great insight about the people I am&#x2F;was connected to.

Scary to see how my work and private connections and social groups can be reproduced just by my email headers..

Of all my browsers, IE rendered the font on the MIT page the best. Why is it so ugly?

Im always cautious about these systems which are labeled as secure but don&#x27;t provide any details as to how they&#x27;re secured. Id love to throw my account in and see what it has to show but im cautious.

it seems to have some problems with my gmail account and just want to go five years ago and not further. Maybe i have to much emails for him ...