Comments on: Social networks of yore http://www.swaroopch.com/blog/social-networks-of-yore/ Conning people into thinking I'm intelligent. Since 1982. Sun, 14 Mar 2010 14:31:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Anish B http://www.swaroopch.com/blog/social-networks-of-yore/comment-page-1/#comment-113130 Anish B Mon, 11 Aug 2008 12:23:05 +0000 http://www.swaroopch.com/blog/social-networks-of-yore/#comment-113130 <p>Voicing everyone again, a very interesting article Mr Swaroop.</p> <p>As "ABI" has commented (and wondered)on "the stage where if we’ll ever get to the stage where social interaction is actually enhanced by the application of such theories (and others) in practice." , I myself am wondering if those people on the social networking sites with a high Dunbar's number can be a target for "viral marketing". These people can be the target of companies selling products or applications specifically catering to these people's likes and wants. And since these people with a high Dunbar's number efficiently communicate with like-minded people around them, the said product or application finds it's way into the hands (computer screens, in fact) of right people, thereby decreasing spamming. What do you say?</p> Voicing everyone again, a very interesting article Mr Swaroop.

As “ABI” has commented (and wondered)on “the stage where if we’ll ever get to the stage where social interaction is actually enhanced by the application of such theories (and others) in practice.” , I myself am wondering if those people on the social networking sites with a high Dunbar’s number can be a target for “viral marketing”. These people can be the target of companies selling products or applications specifically catering to these people’s likes and wants. And since these people with a high Dunbar’s number efficiently communicate with like-minded people around them, the said product or application finds it’s way into the hands (computer screens, in fact) of right people, thereby decreasing spamming. What do you say?

]]> By: Ramesh | The Geek Stuff http://www.swaroopch.com/blog/social-networks-of-yore/comment-page-1/#comment-2929 Ramesh | The Geek Stuff Fri, 08 Aug 2008 23:31:29 +0000 http://www.swaroopch.com/blog/social-networks-of-yore/#comment-2929 <p>In the era of everybody thinking that the social media is the new cool dude around the block, you have definitely brought a different perspective to this.</p> <p>I thoroughly enjoyed reading this article.</p> <p>~ Ramesh</p> In the era of everybody thinking that the social media is the new cool dude around the block, you have definitely brought a different perspective to this.

I thoroughly enjoyed reading this article.

~ Ramesh

]]> By: Swaroop http://www.swaroopch.com/blog/social-networks-of-yore/comment-page-1/#comment-2928 Swaroop Tue, 05 Aug 2008 09:23:29 +0000 http://www.swaroopch.com/blog/social-networks-of-yore/#comment-2928 <p>@Abi I agree that the existing way it works is unnatural, but I'm not sure how you would apply these theories to better "social networks."</p> @Abi I agree that the existing way it works is unnatural, but I’m not sure how you would apply these theories to better “social networks.”

]]> By: Abi http://www.swaroopch.com/blog/social-networks-of-yore/comment-page-1/#comment-2937 Abi Sun, 03 Aug 2008 00:49:03 +0000 http://www.swaroopch.com/blog/social-networks-of-yore/#comment-2937 <p>Nice reading all the articles. But I wonder if we'll ever get to the stage where social interaction is actually enhanced by the application of such theories (and others) in practice. Untill now, Facebook, MySpace and all other existing networks have a very simplified form of social interaction that is quite unlike the real world. Of course, when I say this, I don't mean ranking friends according to most important, important and not important, I mean a system that allows you to discover and interact in a seamless way without constantly asking you about your relationships. I guess this is also related to the Semantic Web in some way (computers being able to understand data, content and relationships).</p> Nice reading all the articles. But I wonder if we’ll ever get to the stage where social interaction is actually enhanced by the application of such theories (and others) in practice. Untill now, Facebook, MySpace and all other existing networks have a very simplified form of social interaction that is quite unlike the real world. Of course, when I say this, I don’t mean ranking friends according to most important, important and not important, I mean a system that allows you to discover and interact in a seamless way without constantly asking you about your relationships. I guess this is also related to the Semantic Web in some way (computers being able to understand data, content and relationships).

]]> By: Swaroop http://www.swaroopch.com/blog/social-networks-of-yore/comment-page-1/#comment-2934 Swaroop Sat, 02 Aug 2008 02:29:16 +0000 http://www.swaroopch.com/blog/social-networks-of-yore/#comment-2934 <p>@RaviShankar Wow, I had observed references to Bacon in many places including internal project code names in Adobe, but now I know why Bacon is the center of the universe!</p> @RaviShankar Wow, I had observed references to Bacon in many places including internal project code names in Adobe, but now I know why Bacon is the center of the universe!

]]> By: Ravishankar http://www.swaroopch.com/blog/social-networks-of-yore/comment-page-1/#comment-2933 Ravishankar Fri, 01 Aug 2008 17:11:46 +0000 http://www.swaroopch.com/blog/social-networks-of-yore/#comment-2933 <p>Thanks for bringing up such a nice topic swaroop :) </p> <p>Since your post is about the social network or the so called "Small World" problems thought I would add one more person who has been a major inspiration for researchers in this field.</p> <p>Actor Kevin Bacon has been one of the prominent person who has been associated a lot with the small world problems among the research community. There is also a Bacon number which tells how far are other actors associated with him in the industry. Average Bacon number is 2.946 [4]</p> <p>There is also a number called "Erdos-Bacon" number which measures the distance of actor-mathematician or mathematician-actors with them. </p> <p>Below are some links about the same.</p> <ul> <li> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_world_phenomenon </li> <li> [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erd%C5%91s-Bacon_number </li> <li> [3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Degrees_of_Kevin_Bacon </li> <li> [4] http://www.oracleofbacon.org/cgi-bin/oracle/center-cgi?who=Kevin+Bacon </li> </ul> Thanks for bringing up such a nice topic swaroop :)

Since your post is about the social network or the so called “Small World” problems thought I would add one more person who has been a major inspiration for researchers in this field.

Actor Kevin Bacon has been one of the prominent person who has been associated a lot with the small world problems among the research community. There is also a Bacon number which tells how far are other actors associated with him in the industry. Average Bacon number is 2.946 [4]

There is also a number called “Erdos-Bacon” number which measures the distance of actor-mathematician or mathematician-actors with them.

Below are some links about the same.

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