social network

what is a social network ?

I ask this question myself many times . I can't define it but could say that it is the place where internet user's socialise which involve meeting new and old friends .

The advantage internet offers is that people with similar interests could easily come together with the help of communities option which social networks offer .

Some of the most famous social networks are

• Facebook
• Myspace
• Beebo
• Orkut

Facebook and Myspace rule the entire network ;)

tweet tweet tweet .. hey tweep's !!!

All of us might had the nostalgic feeling of those days when we had morning walks and when birds chirped .

Maybe .. birds say Tweet Tweet Tweet .. :)

That might be inspiration for twitter developers for bring this revolution on the way people communicate :D

We all know some of the good things which twitter gives us

• Instant messaging
  
• Small message to update you status
  
• Mobile web support
• trends
• search

Anyways .. Twitter has to scale effectively . See this guardian article which discusses on twitter scalablity in layman terms :D

As a web enthusiast I am afraid of the huge data going into twitter and the danger that it may change it's revenue model . If so it will be Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle.

Small world phenomenon

It's undoubtedly a small world :D

Check out the wikipedia article on small world experiment :

The small world experiment comprised several experiments conducted by Stanley Milgram examining the average path length for social networks of people in the United States. The research was groundbreaking in that it suggested that human society is a small world type network characterized by short path lengths.

Can you believe that every person is connected to some other person by an average of 6 links . This was found by Milgram's experiment famously known as "Six degrees of Separation" ..

References:

• Six degrees of Seperation wikipedia article
• Small world problem ( accessible from any university ;) )
• "Linked: How Everything is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means for Business, Science, and Everyday Life

Social Media

Social media is content created by people using highly accessible and scalable publishing technologies. At its most basic sense, social media is a shift in how people discover, read and share news, information and content.

Here is a nice research paper on tagging by Golder,scott,Hubermann and Bernando from HP Research labs
Golder, Scott; Huberman, Bernardo A. (2006), "Usage Patterns of Collaborative Tagging Systems", Journal of Information Science 32 (2): 198-208, doi:10.1177/0165551506062337

Website watch : Gamepolitics.com

GamePolitics.com is a blog about the politics of computer and video games started and maintained by freelance journalist Dennis McCauley

Says the wikipedia article on Gamepolitics

The website says

Where politics and video games collide

hmm quite interesting

Demise of Yahoo

Yahoo is dying .. :(

Search engines fill the gap

Following links may not be able to get the information you want ,Search Engines did fill the gap :)