Category Archives: social networks
Museum of the Phantom City Redux
The fine folks at Urban Omnibus and WNYC are hosting a meet up at Bryant Park this Saturday to explore New York’s unbuilt future from the past with the project I worked on: Museum of the Phantom City. Details below… … Continue reading
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Reaching the limit of social media.
Joel alerted me to Vanity Fair’s share tool. I deal with two social networking sites, Facebook and Linkedin, and I am already facing social networking fatigue. But the intriguing question is, do all these options mean VF gets or doesn’t … Continue reading
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6.6 degrees of seperation
Frank pointed out some clever research at Microsoft Research. Eric Horvitz and Jure Leskovec parsed through one month of MSN messenger communication, or about 1 billion conversations a day. Among the 240 million users, they discovered an average of 6.6 … Continue reading
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the frequency of a word: Awesomeness
Figure 1. Frequency from 2/2004 to 2/2008 Figure 2. Frequency from 4/2005 to 2/2008 Every once in a while, I get the inclination to try to do a little math. It’s a dangerous endeavor, but sometimes I can’t help myself. … Continue reading
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Regional social networks
I have IM accounts on AIM, iChat, Yahoo, MSN, Gmail and Skype. (Years ago, I once used ICQ and IRC.) I always find it interesting, how certain services are popular in specific countries. AIM is most popular in the US, … Continue reading
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Social Networks, Academic Rockstars, Micro-celebrity
Image source: Amazon.com I love the idea nanocelebrity or micro-celebrity, where people are famous among a small group, but far from being a household name. Academic conferences are often a great place to find micro-celebrity. In the US, few academic … Continue reading
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I’m back and my brain is full.
I just got back from a couple of days outside New York. I had Friday off, so instead of Christmas shopping , cleaning house, and going to yoga, I went to a couple of great conferences. Yesterday, I went the … Continue reading
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My network is worth $1,195,537
I guess that is something to be thankful for the day before Thanksgiving. Gigaom is linking to an Xing site, which calculates the value of your network. Mine is over a million dollars. You enter in some demographic information and … Continue reading
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Managing social networks
I attended a very good discussion at MobileCamp on Mobile Social Networks, which was run by Keith Erskine of padpaw. We ended up talking a lot about facebook, which seemed to be on a lot of people’s mind. When talking … Continue reading
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Is Metcalfe’s Law wrong?
Image source: IEEE Noah Brier posted an interesting link recently to an article claiming that Metcalfe’s Law, which famously has been paraphrased to be the value of a network exponentially quadratically grows with each additional node, is wrong. This is … Continue reading
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