The integration of sensors with social networks will lead to real-time data and more useful web apps. In recent posts we reviewed an MIT experiment called WikiCity, that gathered real-time location data from mobile phones in Rome and graphically mapped trends from it. We then looked at a more commercial product doing similar real-time location data analysis, called Citysense. That product aims to let users find the most popular night spots in San Francisco and the most efficient ways to get to them. The next stage of projects/products such as Wikicity and Citysense will be to enable users to social...
The traditional notion of hierarchical, top down, government has always been an imperfect match for the decentralized governance system of the US. However, much of what government does requires co-production of policy among agencies that have no formal au
visone is a software for the visual creation, transformation, exploration, analysis and representation of network data, jointly developed at the University of Konstanz and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology since 2001.
ThinkUp is a free, open source web application that captures your posts, tweets, replies, retweets, friends, followers and links on social networks like Twitter and Facebook.
With ThinkUp, you can store your social activity in a database that you control, making it easy to search, sort, analyze, publish and display activity from your network. All you need is a web server that can run a PHP application.
large groups of people are smarter than an elite few, no matter how brilliant—better at solving problems, fostering innovation, coming to wise decisions, even predicting the future
This article provides an introduction to the use of altmetrics as a tool to assess research impact. In particular, it looks at the evidence behind claims that altmetrics allow the impact of research to be measured in days rather than years. Low correlations between altmetrics and article citations make it doubtful that altmetrics can reliably predict future citations. In addition, there are good reasons to qualify statements that altmetrics measure the wider impact of research on society. Librarians should be careful not to overstate the value of altmetrics when recommending their use as a complement to more traditional measures of research quality.
Entrance into the tools which enables massive feed processing, only thing missing is the realtime semantic annotation of the filtered feeds; Introduces activity streams for me, which seams like an opportunity to set up service networks
Rhe rich get richer, the poor get poorer. The hot get hotter, the cold...disappear from sight! The Matthew Effect is a pretty well known social theory that may help ease your pain as you find yourself isolated from love, peace, and happiness by these phe
P. Singla, und M. Richardson. WWW '08: Proceeding of the 17th international conference on World Wide Web, Seite 655--664. New York, NY, USA, ACM, (2008)
P. Singla, und M. Richardson. WWW '08: Proceeding of the 17th international conference on World Wide Web, Seite 655--664. New York, NY, USA, ACM, (2008)