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 [...]
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







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 [...]







2008/09/25: Layoffs, Loneliness, and the Decay of Social Capital
by Bill Sherman
2008/09/24: Globalization Mindsets: Investing in Social Capital
by Bill Sherman
2008/09/22: Smart Phones vs. People
by Bill Sherman
2008/09/19: Recovering from a Break-In: A Social Capital Story
by Bill Sherman
2008/09/18: Crises of Confidence and Social Capital
by Bill Sherman

