How We Know Us

Month: July 2009

  • Mahalo: Violating Network Trust for Fun and Profit?

    I occasionally get Twitter replies to random questions I put out there from people I’m not following, but this one had a surprise: Not only did @answers respond, but also included more info. Intriguing. I followed the link. That’s when I furrowed my brow. The page it took me to demonstrated what I perceive to…

  • If Facebook were real life

    Idiots of Ants [via Tomorrow Museum].

  • Astroturfing Censured by NY Attorney General

    While not networking exactly, this does touch on our predilection to believe others we do not know, if there are enough of them. New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has settled with a plastic surgery company, alleging the firm published phony positive testimonials and Web sites. Lifestyle Lift, associated with Michigan-based Scientific Image Center Management,…

  • Twitter Communication is Scale Free

    Creating a network from a sample of communications from approximately 900,000 people on Twitter, the distribution of distinct communication partners result fits the definition of a scale-free network.  The power is a little higher than scale-free networks usually described for social networks (2<k<3), but not much.