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The Future of Social Networks

October 24, 2011 by MIKE20 Governance Association
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When the telephone was invented the first networks were private, typically between rich individuals and their industrial interests.  Pretty quickly, though, people wanted to be able to talk to each other without the need to worry about multiple networks and, of course, we regard this as a basic requirement of any telephony solution... [read more]

Best Practices Databases Are Replaced by Social Networks

September 9, 2010 by Christophe Lastennet
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A couple of weeks ago I facilitated a workshop about knowledge sharing within a large multinational. Several middle managers were brought together to define a new way forward to accelerate internal collaboration across regions and departments; what they had until now was a best practices database, more or less successful, and now they... [read more]

8 data mining social networks with more than 2,000 members

July 31, 2010 by Vincent Granville
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Advanced Business Analytics, Data Mining and Predictive Modeling Business analytics, predictive modeling, data mining, web analytics, six sigma, econometrics, business intelligence, computational finance, quant, operations research, machine learning, data analysis, data warehousing, risk management, cloud computing, text mining, BI.... [read more]

Google Buzz: Email is social Web--and getting more so

February 9, 2010 by Stephen Baker
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Reading about Google's new social network service, Buzz, on TechCrunch. Basically, it's like importing social networks into e-mail, that is, gmail. Of course, email has always been a form of social networking, and a much more popular one than Facebook. Google's ploy is to place e-mail at the center of our digital lives, both on the... [read more]

Search and the social graph

December 14, 2009 by Chris Dixon
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Google has created a multi-billion-dollar economy based on keywords. We use keywords to find things and advertisers use keywords to find customers. As Michael Arrington points out, this is leading to increasing amounts of low quality, keyword-stuffed content. The end result is a very spammy Internet. (It was depressing to see Tim... [read more]

Project Gaydar: A Reminder That Privacy Isn’t Binary

September 20, 2009 by Daniel Tunkelang
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There’s a nice article in the Boston Globe about “Project Gaydar“, a project to predict who is gay based on statistically analyzing their Facebook networks. They’ve only done ad hoc validation of their predictions, but claim that their results seem accurate. The involvement of distinguished MIT professor Hal Abelson (at least to the... [read more]

The Map is not the Territory

September 10, 2009 by Teradata Experts
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“The word is not the thing, the map is not the territory” is a key principle of General Semantics and non-Aristotolian logic. But is the data the thing? Is the social network the person? We know that the data of a social network is not the person – but it is valuable. Today, I am going to share some thoughts on my social networks and... [read more]

Top 6 BI Social Network Organisations

July 23, 2009 by Steve Bennett
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Just published is a new survey of social networking by Wetpaint and Altimeter Group. The result is called the ENGAGEMENTdb. The survey is designed to answer the question: What companies are on the social web and how well are they doing it? ENGAGEMENTdb ranks the world's most valuable brands. these are the brands identified in the... [read more]

Anderson Analytics’ Seven Social Network Segments

July 16, 2009 by Tom Anderson
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What Type of Social Network user are you? - A Social Network Usage Model Segmenting the US population into various groups of social network Users and Non-Users can be challenging. Americans from all walks of life are now using social networks and are using them more so than email. Still others are skeptical and claim they will never... [read more]

Who Uses Social Networks Anyway: Part I

July 11, 2009 by Tom Anderson
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New Anderson Analytics Social Media Study - US Social Network ServicesAnderson Analytics just completed a new social media study specifically on the use of the four most popular US social network services: Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn and Twitter. The below chart gives you an idea of just how many Americans are using SNS.US Social... [read more]

Five Stages of Twitter Relevance

April 26, 2009 by James MacLennan
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I'm already fielding internal (as well as external) questions about the application of Twitter in a manufacturing company, and I'm developing a reasonably good model, I think - one that will apply to the hard-core, salt-of-the-earth, manufacturing business leader that I've worked with at many organizations. This "maturity model"... [read more]

Miscellany: Trust, Loyalty, and Book Notes

February 22, 2009 by John Jordan
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1) Trust in social networksSeveral recent developments point to the big questions regarding trust in social networks. First, both Facebook and MySpace announced that registered sex offenders were removed from their sites: 90,000 over two years for MySpace, and 5,500 (out of 175 million users) for Facebook, which is still responding to... [read more]