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SixDegrees.com was a short-lived social network service web site that initially lasted from 1997 [1] to 2000 [2] [3] and was based on the Web of Contacts model of social networking.
Six degrees of separation is the idea that all people are six or fewer social connections away from each other. As a result, a chain of " friend of a friend " statements can be made to connect any two people in a maximum of six steps.
In 1997, Weinreich launched SixDegrees. [1]In 2001, Weinreich founded Joltage, an infrastructure services business devoted to building out a global network of Wi-Fi hotspots. [2]
Six Degrees (or 6˚, stylized as SIX DEGREES) is an American drama television series about six residents of New York City and their respective relationships and connections with one another, based on the idea of six degrees of separation. It premiered on September 21, 2006, after Grey's Anatomy on ABC. The show was created by Raven Metzner and ...
Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age, a science book by Duncan J. Watts, covering the application of network theory to sociology; Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet, 2007 book by Mark Lynas, about the impact each single degree increase in temperature could have on our planet over the next century
Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon or Bacon's Law is a parlor game where players challenge each other to arbitrarily choose an actor and then connect them to another actor via a film that both actors have appeared in together, repeating this process to try to find the shortest path that ultimately leads to prolific American actor Kevin Bacon.
Mathematicians have created the Erdős number to describe their distance from Paul Erdős based on shared publications. A similar exercise has been carried out for the actor Kevin Bacon and other actors who appeared in movies together with him — the latter effort informing the game "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon".
SixDegrees.org is a charity led by actor Kevin Bacon.Launched on January 18, 2007, the organization builds on the popularity of the "small world phenomenon" by enabling people to become "celebrities for their own causes" by donating to or raising money for any charity in the United States.