With his doctorate from Princeton, Army Gen. David Petraeus, the U.S. commander in Afghanistan, has become the prime example of a special breed of soldier: the warrior-scholar, trained in history and politics as well as how to fight wars. Now there’s a variation on the theme: the warrior mathematician, adept in the complex modeling that [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Social Network’
U.S. ‘Connects The Dots’ To Catch Roadside Bombers
Posted: December 6, 2010 in Social Network, Sosyal AğTags: Social Network
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Strange as it sounds, loneliness may be contagious The holiday season is entering the home stretch, but flu season is just getting going. And so, we’re warned, the upcoming New Year’s parties and homeward airplane trips and visits to the mall to return our gifts won’t just mean encounters with crowds, they will mean opportunities [...]
UNLV students weigh in on findings of Internet-oriented study You may have heard of tweeting or updating your “status” on your favorite social networking site, but perhaps there’s even more to status and social networking than meets the eye. Social networking is a quickly-growing use for the World Wide Web, drawing the attention of Internet [...]
Report: Time Spent on Social Networks, Blogs Triples in Past Year
Posted: September 25, 2009 in Social NetworkTags: Social Network
Internet users in August spent 17% of their surfing time on social network and blogging sites, nearly triple the percentage of time spent on such sites a year ago, according to new figures released by Nielsen. “This growth suggests a wholesale change in the way the Internet is used,” said Jon Gibs, the vice president [...]
Social Capital from Networking Online
Posted: March 30, 2009 in Social NetworkTags: Social Capital, Social Network
Consciously or unconsciously, people are using sites like Facebook and LinkedIn as tools for maximizing their social capital (the currency of business interactions and relationships) from relationships. In this chapter Clara Shih provides an important conceptual framework around the concept of social capital. The online social graph reaches far beyond technology and media. It is [...]
Using Facebook to assess the size of social networks
Posted: February 28, 2009 in Social NetworkTags: Social Network
There are some people who argue that the Internet increases the size of people’s social networks by lowering the transaction costs of interacting with people. Facebook — as a dataset — is handy for determining whether this is true. Everyone on Facebook has friends with whom you communicate on a regular or irregular basis. Therefore, [...]
Facebook’s “In-House Sociologist” Shares Stats on Users’ Social Behavior
Posted: February 28, 2009 in Social NetworkTags: Social Network
The famous Dunbar number, or “theoretical cognitive limit to the number of people with whom one can maintain stable social relationships”, is generally accepted to be about 150. However, in a recent interview with The Economist, Cameron Marlow, a research scientist at Facebook, shared some interesting stats on Facebook users’ social behavior patterns. His findings: [...]
Facebook. A fast-growing social networking website, it recently surpassed MySpace in terms of subscribers. In terms of number of visits (1.2 billion in January 2009 alone), this website is No. 1. MySpace. This website attracts music lovers. From indie bands to professional artists, you can find them here. But since it’s older than Facebook, this [...]
