Scraped Services

Datawhorehouse created a map of the users by scraping pages on Orkut. It is a really neat functionality, which will be part of any social network service.

But it is not legal. Orkut has forbidden scraping. But probably the user does not care. And from a service point of view, it is not important at all how a service is produced. It is all about the resulting service.

[inspiration: John Battelle]