ASN would strengthen the collaborative nature of the Internet... to act as a public commons that engages citizens in civil society... an infrastructure for trusted relationships across the [web]...enabling innovation in democratic governance, alternative
Gaussian perspective of the world = built on atomism, privileging stability over instability, structure over process, objects over fields, and being over becoming. Paretian world = much more dynamic view of the world; looks for patterns in evolving relati
NetDraw is a program for drawing networks. It uses (or will use) several different algorithms for laying out nodes in 2-dimensional space (3D will come later). Netdraw reads UCINET system files, UCINET DL text files, and Pajek text files (.net, .clu and .
XFN™ (XHTML Friends Network) is a simple way to represent human relationships using hyperlinks. In recent years, blogs and blogrolls have become the fastest growing area of the Web. XFN enables web authors to indicate their relationship(s) to the people
Combine all of your social sites, bookmarking sites, blogs, personal or business websites, playlists, and more into one personal 'folio,' or 'profile.' Massive number of options and sites available. Privacy concerns? Well...
In social networks, some individuals interact with more people and more often than others. In this context, one may wonder: under which conditions are social beings willing to be cooperative? Current models proposed in the context of evolutionary game the
Recent Developments on the Internet: The common characteristic, which all these systems share, is that the approach is "bottom-up" rather than "top-down". This means that in these environments content and structure are not determined by professional, corp
Blog by visiting professor at the Annenberg Center for Communication, University of Southern California. Good links. "Social networks are social systems with abstract and concrete relationships. It can be regarded as social relations that connect informa
Like locked cell phones and copy-protected music, Facebook is on the wrong side of the open-network debate. Facebook is a sealed bubble. Facebook users are locked into Facebook, just as iTunes locks music fans to Apple's iPod.
"If Facebook allowed users to differentiate between their professional and social relationships and control what parts of their profile are visible based on relationship type, it" could be the end of LinkedIn...
For social networks, the key representational issue is the development of network models whose properties reflect the social reality. Future network models must represent aspects of this reality in a social context, including individual agents’ beliefs
We’ve designed the PeopleAggregator to solve problems for three distinct kinds of end-users and stakeholders. We’ve also designed specific presentations for each of these constituents. Based upon who you are, feel free to take a look at the appropri
Spannerworks, a search engine marketing company, has published a handy dandy guide to social media (PDF). The ebook covers the basics of blogs, podcasts, social networks, tagging, communities and Second Life.