We talked in class about Google Trends, and touched on the idea that Google was increasingly using information collected from users as they searched to improve its engine. It appears that these two things actually go hand in hand, and that Google trends […]

http://www.theage.com.au/news/web/facebook-the-future-for-social-networks/2007/04/24/1177180618008.html
There has always been a heated battle about whether Facebook or MySpace is the top social networking site, but according to Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia co-founder, Facebook will emerge on top.  So what makes Facebook so much better than the more veteran MySpace?  “It’s actually useful,” claims Wales.  While MySpace offered online social networking first, it […]

http://www.theage.com.au/news/web/facebook-the-future-for-social-networks/2007/04/24/1177180618008.html
There has always been a heated battle about whether Facebook or MySpace is the top social networking site, but according to Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia co-founder, Facebook will emerge on top.  So what makes Facebook so much better than the more veteran MySpace?  “It’s actually useful,” claims Wales.  While MySpace offered online social networking first, it […]

http://www.theage.com.au/news/web/facebook-the-future-for-social-networks/2007/04/24/1177180618008.html
There has always been a heated battle about whether Facebook or MySpace is the top social networking site, but according to Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia co-founder, Facebook will emerge on top.  So what makes Facebook so much better than the more veteran MySpace?  “It’s actually useful,” claims Wales.  While MySpace offered online social networking first, it […]

http://www.theage.com.au/news/web/facebook-the-future-for-social-networks/2007/04/24/1177180618008.html
There has always been a heated battle about whether Facebook or MySpace is the top social networking site, but according to Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia co-founder, Facebook will emerge on top.  So what makes Facebook so much better than the more veteran MySpace?  “It’s actually useful,” claims Wales.  While MySpace offered online social networking first, it […]

http://www.theage.com.au/news/web/facebook-the-future-for-social-networks/2007/04/24/1177180618008.html
There has always been a heated battle about whether Facebook or MySpace is the top social networking site, but according to Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia co-founder, Facebook will emerge on top.  So what makes Facebook so much better than the more veteran MySpace?  “It’s actually useful,” claims Wales.  While MySpace offered online social networking first, it […]

The paper Authenticated Ad Hoc Routing at the Link Layer for Mobile Systems by Jim Binkley and William Trost describes the problems associated with ad-hoc wireless networks with mobile nodes. Because wireless network systems allow computers to move around geographically, it is much more difficult to determine which computers can access which other computers […]

AIM as a Proxy in the Small-World Phenomenon
http://aimfight.com/
In class we discussed the small-world phenomenon (six degrees of separation) and how this result is not entirely surprising if exponential growth between steps are taken into account. The site http://aimfight.com/ gives you a score equal to the “sum of […]

Mozilla To Build Social Networking Into Firefox
In early April 2007, sites began popping up all over the internet addressing one of Mozilla’s new endeavors with Firefox: The Coop. The Coop, which will potentially be Firefox’s built-in social network tool, is currently a project in Mozilla Labs. According to its Mozilla wiki, The Coop’s “design was […]

http://www.emarketer.com/Article.aspx?1004840
For the past five to ten years, online social networking sites for career development such as Monster and LinkedIn have been growing and developing.  In the past year, LinkedIn has grown in members by 89% to over 8 million members.  This is a huge increase and suggests the usefulness of online social networking sites for career […]