Archive for April, 2007

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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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The Small World Web

http://www.springerlink.com/content/4fjgx8c7m92nqe05/fulltext.pdf
Recent class discussion has focused on the idea that the social network of the world can be modeled as a “small world” in which any two individuals are connected by a surprisingly short path. The notion of “six degrees of separation” presented by Stanley Melgram’s famous experiment (as discussed in class) provides strong support […]

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Ad-hoc Routing in Wireless Networks

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 […]

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A social network caught in the web

This article looks at an online social network, Club Nexus, at Stanford and explores how the profile personality of each member affects overall network properties.  It uses this online network to study and verify existing theories about social networks.   
 
First, it is established that there is a difference between the online social network and the […]

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Forgot the link. Sorry
http://www.uaf.edu/northern/big_world.html 

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Forgot the link. Sorry
http://www.uaf.edu/northern/big_world.html 

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