Tag: social networks
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Happiness is Contagious in Social Networks
Knowing someone who is happy makes you 15.3% more likely to be happy yourself, the study found. A happy friend of a friend increases your odds of happiness by 9.8%, and even your neighbor’s sister’s friend can give you a 5.6% boost. “Your emotional state depends not just on actions and choices that you make,…
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Implied Social Networks: People In the News with Rankings
As a follow up to this previous post with an image of the relationship between people mentioned in the news, I’ve been asked to provide more detail. First, why bother at all? Exploring the implied relationships may tell us about the individuals in question, but certainly provide more context to each of the other topics…
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8 Requirements for a Perfect Contact Management System
I read about some new organization software over at LifeHacker, which got me thinking about what would be my ideal organization software. I am beginning to embrace the implications of the uneven levels of attention I can pay to people I know, and the definite limit to which I can keep everyone in my head. …