I guess everybody knows the ‘six degrees of separation‘ theory. What it comes down to that you connect with everyone else in the world with a maximum of six ’steps’. If this is true, a friend of a friend of a friend of a friend of a friend of a friend of mine knows Robert De Niro. Cool.

Although I’m not quite convinced the theory holds entirely (what about isolated tribes in the Brazilian rain forest?) I recently discovered that I need only one or two steps to connect to three of the hottest projects in the tech universe.

1. A friend (whom I actually met once) of a friend of mine works on the iPhone.
2. A friend of another friend is currently developing the game that will save Sony’s PS3.
3. Someone I know through the Dutch Flash community has joined the Papervision 3D project (a Flash based 3D render engine that will probably revolutionize the web).