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Archive for August 8th, 2008


Swapping IMs in Milgram’s Ever-Shrinking Small World

Written by: Bill Sherman on Friday, 8 August 2008, 3:07 PM

Here’s an interesting question. Let’s say you use an instant messanger at least once-a-month. How far are you removed from any other person who sent an IM across the network that month?
Leskovec and Horvitz, two researchers at Microsoft, conducted a planetary-wide study of MSN Messenger traffic for a single month (over 180 million users). They [...]

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Social Networks and Software Code

Written by: Bill Sherman on Friday, 8 August 2008, 6:17 AM

This week, I’ve three different ways of looking at social networks–are they like fisheries, software, or muscles.
For the moment, I’d like you to forget about digital social network tools like LinkedIn, Facebook, MyYearbook, FriendFeed, etc. That’s not what I’m talking about. Today, we’re discussing the actual social network itself and not the digital tool. What [...]

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