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Presidential candidate Barack Obama has decided to launch a social networking site on his campaign site. This will essentially provide users and supporters with a facebook or myspace-like atmosphere. By creating a web 2.0 web site for his current supporters, these supporters will more than likely become a central hub for […]

Shakespeare Social Networks
     As many of you have read Shakespear’s many plays and write ‘essays’ about them, you are probably familiar with the relationships among characters in his plays. For example, in Antony and Cleopatra, there is a strong relationship between Antony and Cleopatra (even you have not read this play, they are the main […]

Website: http://www.touchgraph.com/index.html
TouchGraph is a business that graphically represents a search term to other closely linked items of interest. For example, I searched for “The Matrix” and was presented with a web of movies related to my search. One such movie was “The Gladiator” which I clicked on and was able to expand my graph–or […]

http://www.beyonddiscovery.org/content/view.article.asp?a=3681
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) auctioned off a slice of electromagnetic spectrum for the use of wireless communication devices in July of 1994. What was estimated to be worth about $10 billion, turned out to garner $42 billion by early 2001 and there are still more licenses to be sold. What was successful about […]

The date was September 5, 2006, and Facebook, the enormously popular social networking website, unveiled its newest features: the “News Feed” and “Mini-Feed”. The first of the features appears on every Facebook member’s home page, showing their friends’ latest Facebook activities. The second feature, the Mini-Feed, is a module on each member’s profile […]

Many of the networks discussed during the introductory phase of the class were ones in which the nodes represented humans, and the edges represented social ties. The Internet of Things is a neologism originally coined by Julian Bleeker, a media design and information science researcher, meaning both an environment in which everyday things are passively […]