Flight Patterns
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Last year, a three-minute video depicting air traffic patterns in the U.S. garnered quite a bit of attention across the internet. It was created by Aaron Koblin (who also gives credit to Scott Hessels and Gabriel Dunne), using actual FAA data, thus resulting in a visualization of flight paths into, out […]

Last month, representatives from Palantir Technologies (which is indeed a reference to the Lord of the Rings object of the same name) held an information session at Cornell where they discussed two revolutionary data analysis tools.  One essentially creates networks out of the underlying structure and connections in data, using the methods by which the […]

It appears that LinkSViewer has taken the next step by applying graph theory to a new business venture. This company is a “leading-edge Visual Network Analysis software and consulting firm” who actually take the connections between people and businesses and generate a network based on that information. They then sell the resultant picture as “a […]

 There are many categories of social software, a crucial part of Web 2.0.  Websites such as Flickr and YouTube are in the media category, while Facebook and MySpace are in the networking category.  These areas dominate the mainstream press when compared to the social bookmarking category.
 Despite the relatively low mainstream press exposure, many tech-savvy users follow the growth of social bookmarking sites as newcomers enter […]

The Network Unbound
As many know, the “old” web was once a novelty because of its ability to transfer information that allowed users to change and enhance their interaction with their own computers. As our technological industry continues to pick up speed, we are now entering the proclaimed “Web 2.0″ era, one where the internet […]

Anyone reading this blog post who is enrolled in this class or in any other large lecture has almost certainly experienced the phenomenon of students starting to pack up shortly before class is actually over. A few students will start packing up as soon as the professor (or the clock) intimates that the lecture will […]

New Social Networking Technology Packs a Wallop
A spinoff company from Microsoft called Wallop, still in invitation-only mode, hopes to redefine online social networking. While the details are not complete, Wallop is a flexible platform that allows people to centralize blog posts, photos, videos, and conversation in one place. More versatile than Facebook, […]

http://wow-en.curse-gaming.com/wiki/a-guide-to-dkprpp-explanation-examples-and-summary/
This page is part of a wiki on Curse Gaming, a popular site dedicated to World of Warcraft and other MMOs. It describes market systems for distribution of items in such games when there is competition among many players. When a group of players assemble on a repeated basis to defeat raiding (end-game) content, they […]

Bat Batjargal, a Harvard researcher who has written extensively on the social networks of entrepreneurs in different cultures, has some interesting preliminary findings about the role of gender in shaping the structure of entrepreneurs’ social networks. The study concludes:
Men who are entrepreneurs have a lot in common with their female counterparts: They are young, energetic, […]