LinkedIn Labs just released the so-called InMaps tool, which analyzes your LinkedIn profile and contacts and generates a map showing the connections between you and your contacts and between your contacts. It also adds a splash of color to each network within your network and lets you label them.

It’s quite fascinating to zoom in and out of each area of the map, which if you have several hundred contacts becomes quite the veritable spaghetti junction of connectivity.

I see Elizabeth Zubritsky, John MacFarlane, IT expert David Wigley, Andrew Maynard, Lois Wingerson, Sunny Bains, science writer Damian Carrington, science photographer Dana Lipp, Mary Mulvihill, Nottingham’s Professor Martyn Poliakoff, renowned neurobiologist Colin Blakemore, Kate Travis, Jennifer Beal, Sheryl Torr-Brown, chemist Kathy Nagle, ClassicFM’s Tim Lihoreau, Associate Director of CSCS Ladina Gilly, Chris Leonard, conference organizer Shara Cohen and many others within the apparent inner circle of friends, contacts and acquaintances. But, as I say, zooming in and out of different areas is quite fascinating.

InMaps requires that you authorize it via OAuth, that you’re profile is at least 75% complete and that you have more than 50 contacts.

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