IRC Junkie reports of PieSpy 0.4.0:

Those who like toys, or are interested in social networks will like this bot. It is a "social network bot" which renders diagrams that show the social structure of a channel.

"I've just released PieSpy version 0.4.0" PieSpy coder Paul Mutton said to IRCJunkie. "It will probably never reach 1.0, as
that's just the way I version things :)"

This new version contains the tracking of nick changes, "which was the most popular feature request" , and faster rendering of the images showing the social networks.

"You can now apply different weightings to each of the heuristics that are used to infer relationships and the source code has been refactored so it is now very easy to make your own inference heuristics" , Paul adds.

You can find PieSpy here.

O'Reilly will release a book shortly by Paul Mutton, "IRC Hacks, 100 Industrial-Strength Tips & Tools".