Jan Jannink

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Welcome to my home page, o ye of little faith

UPDATE: 19th on the New York Times Best Sellers list!!!

Congratulations to my friend Barry Eisler on his new book
Requiem for an Assassin. Requiem for an Assassin

The character in a major plot line of the story, Jan Jannick, is loosely based on me!


My latest (ad)venture

I've been launching this startup fatdoor: get to know your neighbors

I founded an explosively growing social media company called imeem

imeem logo

imeem is social media, combining secure direct network connections to your buddy list, rich media blogging (check it out!) , group chat, instant messaging, community driven rating, tagging, of all of your digital media with a patent pending DB driven search engine.

imeem is cross platform!

Our Mac client became a universal binary on May 15, 2006. We have contributed open source additions to the Mono project in support of their Mac port. (Update: It saddens me to note that the mac software is on indefinite hold)

The press has been very kind!


I invented the gigaspiral at a now defunct company called gigabeat

Here are some early samples for your viewing pleasure!

first draft drawn in spiral backlinks too gigabeat's gigaspiral


My PhD Thesis was submitted & accepted in March 2001:

A Word Nexus for Systematic Interoperation of Semantically Heterogeneous Data Sources
PDF format (1.25MB)
Postscript format (2.88MB)

I coined a new sense for the word nexus in 1999 to refer to linked structures like the web, dictionary definitions, social networks. nexus structure

I analyzed the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) nexus using the gigaspiral.

nexus analysis


Condensed Life History by Continent

Continent Through Year Planet
North America Birth Sept. 64 new! spinning globe

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North America -) end '68
Africa -) autumn '71
North America -) summer '77
Europe -) fall '84
North America -) spring '89
Asia -) spring '92
North America -> present
Hmmm... seems to be a pattern here. South America and Australia beckon.

Some Honeymoon Pictures

My Hobbies


Early Publications

Some B+tree code

The Scalable Knowledge Composition home page


imeem is just a click away!
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