We are assisting to a brand new kind of humanism: in a period characterized by a continuous “wave” of technological improvements, the oldest idea of person is again ready to be considered as a concrete focal point. Even the most orthodox “tech-fun” can easily understand the importance of putting each natural, direct relation inside a […]
I’ve read several articles about a good way to enlarge one’s own network inside LinkedIn or other social networking tools: it could be a rather “simple” task given the number of involved users, however a bit of strategy may prevent some common mistakes that can penalize this brand new kind of “gold rush“… That’s my […]
Yesterday I tried to answer a question on LinkedIn about the value we can assign to high level connections (3rd or greater): a quite good question from several point of views.
I think that the main problem of “Small Worlds” theory is brought about the huge amount of information needed in order to get a fast […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]