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"All too frequently, someone makes a comment about how a large number of Facebook Friends must mean a high degree of social capital. Or how we can determine who is closest to who by measuring their email messages. Or that the Dunbar number can explain the average number of Facebook friends. These are just three examples of how people mistakenly assume that 1) any social network that can be boiled down to a graph can be compared and 2) any theory of social networks is transitive to any graph representing connections between people. Such mistaken views result in broad misinterpretations of social networks and social network sites."

"Clay Shirky visits Google's Mountain View, CA, headquarters to discuss his book, "Here Comes Everybody." This event took place on March 11, 2008, as part of the Authors@Google series."

Opinion piece on the use of Facebook by faculty. Discusses concerns of privacy and granularity in use of FB by teachers. A bit naive in my opinion but does discuss the issues.

What types of news stories do consumers share and discuss the most? What issues do they have less interest in? What is the interplay of the various new media platforms? And how do their agendas compare with that of the mainstream press? To answer these questions, the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism has gathered a year of data on the top news stories discussed and linked to on blogs and social media pages and seven months' worth on Twitter. We also have analyzed a year of the most viewed news-related videos on YouTube. Several clear trends emerge.

"There are countless pundits and other tech gurus describing Google Wave as a disappointment, lately. Most of that seems to come from the fact that nobody seems to get what Wave is for. So they compare it to social media." Nice post on viewing Google Wave from a productivity perspective.

This is YouTube channel for LinkedIn. You may find some of these videos interesting. In addition to the new "linkedIn grad guide," if you click on "most viewed" videos you will see a video from CommonCraft on LinkedIn. (Yayyyy!!)

"This is the official LinkedIn Channel, featuring videos of users, product demos, feature releases and interviews with key team members from LinkedIn's product, design and engineering teams."

ScienceDirect - Journal of Public Economics :

Charlie Rose discusses Twitter and social media with Evan Williams.

A conversation with Chris DeWolfe And Tom Anderson, founders of Myspace.com

A conversation with Marc Andreessen, co-founder and chairman of Ning and an investor in several startups including Digg, Plazes, and Twitter.

Changing list of the most popular social networks created on Ning.

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