OpenTable doesn't really have an official API. Urbanspoon has been touting Rez as an alternative but same story there. Will definitely let you know when we're ready for primetime.
In practice though, is the degree of connectedness really ever that high? I was under the impression that many real world phenomena (from social networks to biological interaction networks) exhibit small-world phenomena and you tend to get more well-connected subgraphs that are connected by important hub nodes. So it would seem to me like applying some careful heuristics (and keeping track of important bottlenecks/hubs) would still allow you to do computations in chunks.
I forgot to say, awesome work and I like the visual look and feel and it does feel snappier than the real FB but still don't see why I should use it... maybe I don't "get" it?
If I try searching for a friend by using their last name (easier in this case), it starts to match the name in the autocomplete but drops out once I've typed the full name for some reason...
also probably not a typical use case for names, but I do have FB friends that go by their middle names although their facebook profile has their full name.. can't search for them using middle name in autocomplete search
yea I know, I was in a rush and I didn't want to give the impression that I was astroturfing with a title like "Resource Furniture: Awesome space saving furniture"