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Slides from 2008 - SGFOO Social Networks Workshop - Marc Smith - Ties that Blind.pdf talk that I'm in right now are available here:
http://www.instructables.com/file/FSR...
@debs: from your blog: "a bit of analytic magic to tell me which of my friends I connect to the most and share the most with" -- couldn't agree more! we have lots to talk about then... :)
I'm writing a book for O'Reilly on web community and social networks, I'll be interviewing over the weekend.
Recently, I was talking to someone from the Michigan Association of High School Principals who was raving about how much the entire organization relied on RSS. Anecdotal, but interesting to me.
A lot of the data portability standards have the potential to be hidden to the user with the right UI/UX. So maybe they'll get faster/wider adoption.
@Tony Stubblebine: The psychology behind these new technologies is interesting. RSS was the last new consumer facing web technology. The take up of RSS has not yet gone mainstream, certainly from experience in the science community.
@Tony Stubblebine: Hey Tony,
Yep, would be great to get some people together to discuss understanding real human relationships through the social graph.
@Ankur Shah: +1 on human relationships. I'd like to get some people together to talk about the human side of the social graph.
@Rob Dolin: Hi Rob, all the profile pages have hCard+XFN and also FOAF. Or you could check out this completely unsupported and barely thought out XML representation:
http://sgfoocamp08.crowdvine.com/profiles.xml
@Tony Stubblebine: Hey Tony, is there any way you could make an XML representation of the user profile available? I'd like to be able to mash together a participant list in an alternate format (like one long page for printing.) Thanks--
--Rob
@Tony Stubblebine: I am looking forward to the event!
Working with big data sets often leads to working with lots of little data sets. That is why we have been working on network analysis tools for Excel. Over at:
http://research.microsoft.com/research/downloads/Details/bd44899b-634e-4f1e-a69c-36546fa14529/Details.aspx
you can find early versions of C#UNG, a directed graph visualization tool ("C# Universal Network Graph") that plugs into Excel and provides some basic network analysis affordances.
Yes, we keep a record of the facebook user ID for everyone who adds the Facebook app. When we install the Facebook app in your profile, we use the API to ask for your Facebook friends, which are returned only as a list of IDs. We compare this internally to our record of others' IDs and present those to the user.
Most of our identity matching code is open sourced at http://identity-matcher.googlecode.com although I think the Facebook bit isn't in there as it's more intimately tied in to the rest of the Facebook code.
@Matt Biddulph: When Dopplr finds your friends on Facebook, how is it matching FB accounts with Dopplr accounts? Is it limited to people who also installed the Dopplr app? I suppose CrowdVine networks are small enough that we could match on name. Also, do you know of any open source reference implementations? If not, we'll release ours (too late for SG Foo though).
@Marc Smith: Marc, so glad you're coming. I saw you speak at Berkeley a year or so ago. Loved it. Would love to talk to you about social network analysis. You're probably doing stuff with massive data sets but if you want to play with highly connected niche networks I can probably share O'Reilly conference data (three Foo camps and Web 2.0 Berlin).
@Brian Ellin: I'd second a talk on vertical/niche social networks and definitely attend something on social competition for self-improvement. Shelly here could probably talk about Reality All Stars as part of that.
bummer, that is my profile from the BarCampBlock crowdvine. i can't access it anymore. david, if you are an admin will you please delete that account?
@Brian Ellin: You seem to already have a profile. http://sgfoocamp08.crowdvine.com/profiles/2861
