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2collab Survey Reveals that Scientists and Researchers are "All Business" with Social A... - 0 views

www.elsevier.com/...companynews05_00947 academia social network web2.0
shared by Roger Chen on 27 Jun 08 - Cached
  • scientists are using blogs, wikis, and social networking and bookmarking applications primarily for professional reasons. Results show that these social media applications have provided scientists and researchers with additional resources to help them collaborate, connect, share and discover information.
  • Over 50% of respondents see web-based social applications playing a key role in shaping the future of research. The largest influence will be on critical analysis and evaluation of research data, professional networking and collaboration, dissemination of research output, career development, as well as grant application and funding.
  • Comments from survey respondents identified several issues need to be addressed before mass acceptance by the research community is possible – namely the need for specialist tools, higher security, and validation of users. However, these concerns were not seen as insurmountable obstacles, and many anticipated tremendous potential for social media.
  • Roger Chen on 27 Jun 08
     
    2collab, the research collaboration platform from Elsevier, the world's leading publisher of science, technology and medical (STM) information, announced today the results of a survey, asking researchers about the role of social media in their professional lives. The survey, which yielded over 1,800 responses, revealed that scientists are using blogs, wikis, and social networking and bookmarking applications primarily for professional reasons. Results show that these social media applications have provided scientists and researchers with additional resources to help them collaborate, connect, share and discover information.
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Google's view: Three trends in social networking | Webware : Cool Web apps for everyone - 0 views

www.webware.com/8301-1_109-9970053-2.html google internetwatch
shared by Roger Chen on 17 Jun 08 - Cached
  • Roger Chen on 17 Jun 08
     
    "Social is the new black," Joe Kraus, Google's director of product management, said at a talk on the company's social-computing efforts at the Supernova conference here. Kraus' view, which can be fairly said to represent Google's, is that these are the three big trends in the social Web:
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Social Media Research Blog: Some things are just Semi-Social - 0 views

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shared by Roger Chen on 21 Jun 08 - Cached
  • Social Media is a lot about sharing.
  • As we start to experiment with social software we realize that sharing is good and soon become open to sharing a lot more. There are some things though, that just seem semi-social. What I mean by Semi-Social is roughly "Thing I would not mind sharing with a small group of trusted friends and family members".
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Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship - 0 views

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shared by Roger Chen on 26 Jun 08 - Cached
  • We define social network sites as web-based services that allow individuals to (1) construct a public or semi-public profile within a bounded system, (2) articulate a list of other users with whom they share a connection, and (3) view and traverse their list of connections and those made by others within the system.
  • Early public online communities such as Usenet and public discussion forums were structured by topics or according to topical hierarchies, but social network sites are structured as personal (or "egocentric") networks, with the individual at the center of their own community. This more accurately mirrors unmediated social structures, where "the world is composed of networks, not groups" (Wellman, 1988, p. 37).
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Collaborative Filtering: Lifeblood of The Social Web - ReadWriteWeb - 0 views

www.readwriteweb.com/...ative_filtering_social_web.php internetwatch recommender
shared by Roger Chen on 01 Jul 08 - Cached
  • This, of course, relies on the fact that people's interests, preferences, and ideologies don't change too drastically over time.
  • A filtering system with preference-based recommendations, in essence, is the future of the social web.
  • The best implementations of a Collaborative Filtering (CF) system along with a preference based recommendation/discovery system that I have seen are always on music streaming and discovery sites.
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  • As you can see from above, it is certainly possible to have a good collaborative filtering system without a recommendation engine
  • Collaborative Filtering (Wikipedia definition) is a mechanism used to filter large amounts of information by spreading the process of filtering among a large group of people.
  • The important thing, one that not many social sites realize, is that a (CF) system that doesn't automatically match content to your preferences, is inherently flawed. The reason for this is simple: Unless you can achieve perfect diversity and independence of opinion, one point of view will always dominate another on a particular platform. The dominant point of view on the social web is a left-leaning one, and without the ability to get the most appropriate pieces of content to the people that care most about them, the right-wing point of view gets buried almost every time.
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Following Up On The Value of Noise - ReadWriteWeb - 0 views

www.readwriteweb.com/...owing_up_on_the_value_of_n.php internetwatch reading social media
shared by Roger Chen on 18 Oct 08 - Cached
  • We don't want to argue that noise is always good, it's clearly important to spend some time without it every day.
  • Filtering isn't everything it's cracked up to be, though, and you wouldn't want to live in a fully filtered world all the time. Social media noise is an essential part of learning and living on the web.
  • It's one thing to find something you didn't know you needed right now, it's a whole other skill to be able to recall information that seemed marginally useful at best in the past at a time in the future when the need for it arises. Who can't remember doing that before? The ability to recall passively collected information that was gathered purposelessly in the past and put it to use in the future is a particularly powerful form of intelligence
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  • Some people call it "serendipity," others call it "passive and opportunistic information acquisition." (Erdelez, see below.) The less limited the boundaries of your scope of view are, the more likely you may be to find things you didn't even think to look for.
  • Some people worry that being exposed to too much information will lead to not remembering very much of it. Scientists say that's not necessarily the case, though.
  • Quiet time, time off-line, deep thoughts and long books are all beautiful things - essential to a healthy intellectual, psychological and social life. We argue, though, that the opposite of all those things - online social media noise, is also a great opportunity that deserves to have its worth recognized at a time in history when many of us are struggling to deal with it.
  • Serendipitous search in the offline world is believed to be one of the ways our understanding of the world expands.
  • it's an interesting understanding of the way that swimming through noise helps us become who we are.
    • Roger Chen
      Roger Chen on 18 Oct 08
       
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  • Erdelez argues that when prompted about a particular incident of accidental discovery our memories are better than we might think.
  • I think what makes noise unbearable is the guilty feeling we have to not read everything. But if we takes some times to dive in the noise, without feeling guilty of what we have missed, it is just a positive habit.
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What Are Friends For? - TIME - 0 views

www.time.com/...9171,1101040906-689474,00.html social network
shared by Roger Chen on 27 Apr 08 - Cached
  • Roger Chen on 27 Apr 08
     
    An old article explaning what friends are for on social network. Published by Time Magazine.
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QWERTY: When is it just too much? - 0 views

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shared by Roger Chen on 22 Apr 08 - Cached
  • Roger Chen on 22 Apr 08
     
    There seems to be several stages of social media:
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The Future Of Social Networks - 0 views

www.slideshare.net/...the-future-of-social-networks internetwatch social network
shared by Roger Chen on 08 Jul 08 - Cached
  • Roger Chen on 08 Jul 08
     
    The presentation give by Charlene Li.
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SocialMedia to unveil 'friendship ranks' | Tech news blog - CNET News.com - 0 views

news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9974220-7.html internetwatch social media
shared by Roger Chen on 24 Jun 08 - Cached
  • Goldstein is expected to announce "social banners," or display ads that turn you or your friends into the hook of a marketing message. In tandem, SocialMedia will announce that it's developed a patent-pending algorithm called FriendRank to power those social banners. It's like Google's PageRank, but instead of ranking pages for their popularity, it ranks friendships.
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Social Network Evolution - Sean Percival's Blog - 0 views

www.seanpercival.com/...social-network-evolution internetwatch social network
shared by Roger Chen on 30 Jun 08 - Cached
  • Some of us run to each new service, play around for a bit and then quickly abandon it.
    • Roger Chen
      Roger Chen on 30 Jun 08
       
      This aplles to many applications. LOL.
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