Is six degrees of separation for real? We've built an app for that. - Watson

Six degrees of separation is the theory that anyone on earth can be connected to any other person on the planet through a chain of acquaintances with no more than five intermediaries. Prolific character actor Kevin Bacon has become an icon for the concept of interconnectedness and popularized by the trivia game, "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon." Movie buffs challenge each other to find the shortest path between Bacon and an arbitrary actor. The challenge is navigating through endless sources of news to identify individual articles and a clean match-up. Using a basic API to query and uncover trends and aggregations across hundreds of thousands of articles and blogs, Watson can get there in half as many steps.