Social connection strategies

09/13/2007 Complex Systems Software No Comments
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…

The starfish and the spider: book review

08/22/2007 Complex Systems No Comments
It is certainly a great book (this is the Amazon link), however, in my opinion, there’s still an important difference between two main kinds of decentralised organisations that should be defined in a more accurate way: structures like Wikipedia have a clear, well defined and global goal (for example, creating…

Web 2.0: A “Sociological” Point of View

08/22/2007 Complex Systems No Comments
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…

Small Worlds… A little bit larger

08/10/2007 Complex Systems No Comments
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 points of views. I think that the main problem of “Small Worlds” theory is brought about the huge amount of information needed in…

Are there isles inside LinkedIn?

08/04/2007 Complex Systems No Comments
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…