Social Network Analysis
by Ines Mergel

Recent Developments in Social Network Analysis

• Dynamic Social Networks
  • Stocnet: Free Download, Article (Introduction, published in Connections)
  • The Dynamics of Networks and Behavior Journal
    
• Six Degrees of Separation
  • Duncan Watt's Small World Experiement
  • A Coalition to Protect Research Congressional Briefing: Six Degrees of Separation: Using Social Network Research to Inform Public Health and National Security
  • NYT adopts network language: "Strong Ties Bind Players in Battle For Seat on Court" on President Bush's short list are federal appeals court Judges
    
• Social Software
  • AIM Fight: crawls the web for those buddies who are online and have listed you in their friendslist: "the sum of the current number of people online who have you listed as a buddy, out to three degrees"
  • aSmallWorld: aSmallWorld is an invitation-only online community which is not open to the public.
  • Dodgeball (Google):
  • Friendster (see also Dogster, Catster, Hamsterster)
  • LinkedIn (by invitation only)
  • MP3 MusicVine, Last.fm, Pandora and Musicplasma (inactive)
  • MyRank: Yahoo Social Bookmarking
  • Nokia Sensor: Social Software for Mobile Phones
  • Orkut (Google)
    
• Network Visualization
  • Trust Art
  • Network visualization
    
• Mash up
  
  Please join us in the effort to build/create the first Google-Maps mash-up of the global research community on social networks. Please go to the following website called Sociallight and add your or other peoples information (location, name, research interest, URL) to our channel/map called "Social Networks". Registration is necessary to add a marker but its free and can be done in less than 5 minutes.
  
• Web 2.0 Google vs Yahoo Watch

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