There are plenty of different tools out there to measure your influence on Twitter such as Klout, Twinfluence, Twitter ratio, and there are many more. I’m not sure all of these tools have the same definition of “influence on Twitter”. This is the same question we ask when we[...]
Archive for the ‘Social networks’ Category
January 30th, 2009 - 12:03 pm § in Social networks
Heat diffusion for Social net marketing
The paper we look at here is called “Mining Social Networks Using Heat Diffusion Processes for Marketing Candidates Selection” and is by Yang, Liu and King from The Chinese University of Hong kong. Companies have started social networks more and more for WOM promotion, increase bran awar[...]
January 16th, 2009 - 1:59 pm § in Social networks, Uncategorized
Metcalfe’s Law & web stuff
Metcalfe’s law says that “the value of a network increases proportionately with the square of the number of its users”. This law works for Internet, social networking, the www and any other type of network like that. The idea is to be able to give a value to the network. Metc[...]
December 15th, 2008 - 10:12 pm § in Blog research, Social networks
Identifying the Influential Bloggers in a Community
This paper was presented at WSDM 08 by Agarwal et al. from NEC laboratories. ”Identifying the Influential Bloggers in a Community” can be read at the ACM. They look at the very important area of research concerning how we deal with the huge amount of data generated by bloggers and how [...]
November 21st, 2008 - 10:17 pm § in Social networks
Issues with collaborative voting
Collaborative voting is used a lot these days in news systems, where people submit articles and others vote on whether they are interesting or not. The articles with the most votes are ranked highest if you like, making it to the much coveted front page. There are some issues with these systems wh[...]
November 19th, 2008 - 8:24 pm § in Social networks
Optimal Marketing Strategies over Social Networks
“Optimal Marketing Strategies over Social Networks” (www 2008) is a paper written by Jason Hartline (North-Western Uni), Vahab S. Mirrokni (MIT), Mukund Sundararajan (Stanford). It’s interesting because it gives an idea of how businesses can use social networks in an effective[...]
November 14th, 2008 - 12:35 am § in Social networks
Sphinn spam – some solutions
*Before you read, a clarification – I’m aware that Sphinn is working on a newer version, and also that they use editors, mods and user interaction for spam fighting – this post is about those techniques and their limitations, and also introduces some new ideas* Sphinn has been swam[...]
November 13th, 2008 - 7:48 am § in Social networks
Social network analysis tool
Agna (Applied Graph & Network Analysis) is a tool built for social network analysis, sociometry and sequential analysis. With Agna you can study relationships between groups, relationships between people, and the structure of social networks. The results are graphed nicely so that you can [...]
November 9th, 2008 - 10:06 pm § in Social networks
The profile picture
We belong to at least one social network, and it requires you to have a profile picture. How do you choose? If you belong to lots of social networks do you use a different one in each? PhD comic suggests: Tweet This PostRelated Posts:SLNA: social network analysisHeat diffusion for Social net mar[...]
October 21st, 2008 - 12:55 am § in Social networks
SISN toolkit for social media
Kicking off the week with a technical poster from Michigan University called “SISN: A Toolkit for Augmenting Expertise Sharing via Social Networks“. They’re developing a toolkit to support expertise sharing via social networks. The toolkit “SISN” (Seeking Inform[...]
