http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06363/749317-96.stm
This article, published Dec 29 2006 in the Wall Street Journal, discusses a new approach to networking in health care. In the past years people have started searching the internet more often as the first source of medical information. In light of this, the medical community has started to take advantage. […]

The Shi, Adamic & Strauss paper “Networks of Strong Ties” (pdf, arXiv) analyzes the importance of strong ties in a social network, in contrast to “The Strength of Weak Ties”. If we recall, the strength of weak ties resides in their ability to connect nodes that are not normally in close contact with each […]

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/fn/4584489.html
One of the largest and well-known online dating services Match.com (www.Match.com), has recently acquired two overseas online dating services, successfully increasing its social network by millions of people. According to an article in the Houston Chronicle, “Match.com to Announce Overseas Expansion,” the French online dating service known as Netclub and the Chinese online dating service […]

Article 1: http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-02-05-nsa-telecoms_x.htm
Article 2: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070125-8701.html

The two articles above discuss the power behind social networks. The first article, Telecoms let NSA spy on calls, talks about the NSA wiretapping procedure and the legal implications of this procedure. Each telecommunication company is in control of a large network of users, or customers, which can […]

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The New York Times printed the above image on the front page of its Arts Section, Tuesday, February 27. The image depicts a directed graph compiled from this years Oscar acceptance […]

http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/pubs/2004/1931/content.pdf
Download PieSpy: http://www.jibble.org/piespy/
PieSpy is a freeware program that can be used to track interactions amongst users in an online chat room.  The software employs several methods to not only determine which users are interacting with each other, but also just how strong these interactions between the two individuals are.  It then generates a detailed mathematical […]

This article is one man’s attempt to explain network theory to his audience.  I found this particular blog by searching for “Triadic Closure”, and it caught my eye because he is explaining it to a rather unusual community.  The writer is an Associate Professor at Abilene Christian University (Richard Beck), and his audience is […]

Ant hills, intercellular communication, human interaction… all consist of complex networks that cannot be described linearly (are high-dimensional), nor can they be easily understood or modeled. The study of such complex systems can be applied to a plethora of subjects, and Mark Smith, MD and Craig Feied, MD decided to apply complex system theories to, […]

In a previous post, rebelkingismyhero discussed a model of large scale networks called the random graph. A random graph/network is generated by connecting each pair of a number of vertices with some probability. This creates a graph with each vertex having the same connectivity or level of connectedness on average. rebelkingismyhero noted that […]

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/26/technology/26fake.html?ref=technology
While there are many large scale social networks on the internet, none are as popular as MySpace.com. MySpace is a social networking website that allows users to build a network of friends, their own personal profiles, and access to groups, photos, music, videos, and blogs. As a result, it is pretty easy for […]