Katango algorithm sorts Facebook friends into circles similar to Google+

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Facebook may have an ally in the looming war with Google+ and its Circles feature, in the form of an app which arranges Facebook friends into subgroups - automatically.

Start-up Katango has created an app which examines a user's Facebook friends and sorts them on the basis of geographical location, school and friends of friends.

"At times, the algorithm surprises us with the socially meaningful connections it draws from a given set of data. For example, we’ve found that all sorts of location information – where you worked, where you went to school, where you live – can surface useful relationship links between you and your friends online that are relevant to creating subgroups for sharing specific information," says the company.

"We’ve also found that your number of friends and the types of interactions you have with those friends strongly correlates to your age."

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