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
Alacrity, noun. From the Latin alacritas meaning promptitude. Similar in meaning to its synonyms Velocity and Celerity, all three mean quickness in action or movement. Alacrity stresses promptness in response to a suggestion or command, cheerful and eager
"what makes this board game work?", to "how can we give our players more control of our online games?", to "how do we make decisions in our company?", and of course "how did we collectively make such a mess of decision making in America?".
Faculty of 1000 Medicine is a new online research tool that highlights the most interesting papers in medicine, based on the recommendations of nearly 2500 leading researchers and clinicians. F1000 Factor Selection by peers Systematic coverage Exper
OpenWetWare is an effort to promote the sharing of information, know-how, and wisdom among researchers and groups who are working in biology & biological engineering. Protocols, Labs, Courses, Resources, Wiki, Networking
Mojikan is a new site that aims to introduce a new concept of interactive tools for online social behavior. They are still heavily involved with their site development, but you can still explore parts of their site, and see what they plan to offer.
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Rhe rich get richer, the poor get poorer. The hot get hotter, the cold...disappear from sight! The Matthew Effect is a pretty well known social theory that may help ease your pain as you find yourself isolated from love, peace, and happiness by these phe
Dissect Medicine is a collaborative medical news website, which indexes and ranks international medical news. It spans general interest articles to basic research. Dissect Medicine users submit news items for review with tags and keywords. These are then
Cranky.com is built on a base of Ask.com's index, with editorial oversight from Eons' team, and an initial behavioral "lens" created using data from market research firm Compete's panel. Compete has been tracking the user activity in its panel for more th
Automatic semantic annotation of information content is an open problem, but is crucial to the realization of the Semantic Web. Annotation systems require the initial definition of an ontology and as well as a knowledge base. Both of these resources work
Hawkee is a social network that focuses on social software and social shopping. Our members are active developers and consumers who share a fond interest in technology. From video games to PHP scripting we cover a variety of topics for the technically inc
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
Walls of an auditorium were covered with thousands of sheets of paper — printouts from MySpace, Facebook, YouTube and other online sites that were filled with back-stabbing gossip, unflattering images, and details about partying and dating exploits.
When it comes to online privacy, I keep these two things in mind: 1. Eventually, despite your best efforts, any information (personal or otherwise) could become universally accessible. 2. The only way to protect yourself from the potentially neg
A user with an XFN Friendly blog, blogroll, or web site, can use that site as a nexus for linking together all their otherwise disparate and isolated social networking sites, by linking from those sites to their blog, and then linking from their blog to t
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
This post is part contribution to the general Web 3.0 / Data-Web / Semantic Web discourse, and part experiment / demonstration of the Data Web. I came across a pretty deep comments trail about the aforementioned items on Fred Wilson's blog (aptly title
Del.icio.us tags aren’t like meta keyword tags because of the Del.icio.us Lesson. Meta keyword tags provide no personal value whatsoever. All of their value is social. They’re for aggregation engines to find and tell other people about. In other words
FOAF facilitates the creation of the Semantic Web equivalent of the archetypal personal homepage: My name is Leigh, this is a picture of me, I'm interested in XML, and here are some links to my friends. And just like the HTML version, FOAF documents can b
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
Think of trust as the currency of social capital. Managing trusted relationships is a complex and risky social, emotional, and strategic problem. Social networking systems are still fairly new, so while earning the trust of their users is being increasing
Landscaping firms says "We choose not to work for homosexuals" in response to email from prospective client. Like any true WOM phenom, an email received by a gay couple in Houston TX has been making the rounds online and bloggers are jumping on this emai
Social Design, run by John Emerson is focused on what I would call socially-conscious design, whereas I’m exploring design that focuses on how people interact socially. So, do you know of any other people, outfits, orgs that focus on social design? (ot
Good knowledge is clean knowledge where the intent of the creator is to inform, not to promote or sell. On the Internet, preserving the purity of knowledge is exponentially harder because the knowledge, or the visibility of the knowledge, is frequently de
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