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LinkedIn Policies: a Simple Comment

Every LinkedIn member soon becomes acquainted with a particular policy ordained in order to prevent (theoretically…) spam messages: “An invitation must always be sent to people you know“.
However I believe that such an instruction is quite ambiguous and maybe too far from the real concept of “social networking“: what kind of knowledge are we talking […]

Read-Pile: The Starfish and The Spider

It is certailny a great book, however, in my opinion, there’s still an important difference between two main kinds of decentralized organizations that should be defined in a more accurate way: structures like Wikipedia have a clear, well defined and global goal (for example, creating a unique and complete world-wide encyclopedia), while almost any P2P […]

Web 2.0: A “Sociological” Point of View

A Web 2.0 “Sociological” point of view is probably the most interesting analysis, mainly because it can be really considered as the very network revolution. Web 1.0 could rely only on a kind of link: the one obtained from <a …> tags; its purpose was (and still it is) to allow the connection between […]

Time for Emergence

When Sir Tim Berners-Lee had his stroke of genius and invented the World Wide Web, he didn’t surely think about its extraordinaty present developments, just like a father normally hopes his children’s wellbeing, but he can’t seldom figure out every particular detail of their future. Such a behaviour strikes everybody as a strange kind of […]

From Computer to Business Operating Systems

Many years ago Arnold Zuboff wrote a novel (republished into The Mind’s I) which “main character” was a biological brain; but not a normal, compact one:
it had been split more and more times, from two big parts since billions of smaller cells. Of course every single neuron was connected to other ones just like in […]

Are There Isles inside LinkedIn ?

It has been proved that social networks are based on a scale-free model: there are few hubs with lots of connections and several small nodes with few links. However I wonder what is the level of global connectivity inside a well-known network like LinkedIn.
In other words I’d like to know if there are small or […]

Connection Categories: Addendum

Reference Post: Connection Categories
I think that a clarification could be useful… I believe that in particular networks (just like the Internet), the requirements of usability and accessibility oblige every big node (hub) to assume an adaptive behavior which main feature is to hide the majority of possible links in order to show only a limited […]

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