GSoC 2010 mid-term: Graph Streaming API by André Panisson.
From the blog:
The purpose of the Graph Streaming API project, run by André Panisson, is to build a unified framework for streaming graph objects. Gephi’s data structure and visualization engine has been built with the idea that a graph is not static and might change continuously. By connecting Gephi with external data-sources, we leverage its power to visualize and monitor complex systems or enterprise data in real-time. Moreover, the idea of streaming graph data goes beyond Gephi, and a unified and standardized API could bring interoperability with other available tools for graph and network analysis, as they could start to interoperate with other tools in a distributed and cooperative fashion.
There are times when no comment seems adequate. This is one of those times.
Read the post, play with the code, follow the work (and support it!).