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A New Post to Global Guerrillas
A New Post to Global Guerrillas
08/29/2004 11:01 AMA Defense Against Cascades. Cascades of failure
provide global guerrillas leverage. Here are two innovative
methods of preventing cascades within scale-free networks with dynamic
flows (electrical and information).
Another New Post to Global Guerrillas
Another New Post to Global Guerrillas
05/06/2004 01:15 PMAttacking Scale-free Networks. Scale-free
networks are everywhere, from power systems to weblogs to terrorist
organizations. How can we defend our scale-free networks against
attack? How do we disrupt the scale-free networks of non-state
terrorists? This post provides some answers.
New Post to Global Guerrillas
New Post to Global Guerrillas
04/09/2004 06:33 PMMercenaries Unbound. The huge military
services industry is largely without a regulatory or legal
framework. Here is a post on what is currently going on and what
will likely happen.
New Post: Global Guerrillas
New Post: Global Guerrillas
04/21/2004 10:18 AMThe Terrorist Web. How are terrorists
using the Web today? How effective are these sites? Do
these sites provide clues on the future direction of terrorism?
Note to readers. I don't have an editor on my staff
(LOL). You are my editor. If you see errors or potential
for improvement, please post a comment or send me an e-mail.
New Post on Global Guerrillas
New Post on Global Guerrillas
05/07/2004 12:02 PMAl Qaeda's Grand Strategy: Superpower
Baiting. This dives into one view of al Qaeda's grand
strategy. Is the US acting as al Qaeda's PR firm? Are we
acting in a reckless fashion that will result in our eventual
failure? You decide.
New Post to Global Guerrillas: Iraq's
Electricity Disruption
New Post to Global Guerrillas: Iraq's
Electricity Disruption
06/29/2004 01:38 PMGlobal guerrillas have been able to hold
electricity production in Iraq to less than prewar levels. This
has had a major impact on the country's economics,
security, and governmental legitimacy. If this continues, it may
spell the end of the current interm government.
New Posts to Global Guerrillas
New Posts to Global Guerrillas
06/14/2004 05:09 AMThree
reports on how global guerrillas are using Iraq as a laboratory of
strategy development.
Journal Posts to Global Guerrillas
Journal Posts to Global Guerrillas
04/22/2004 05:35 PMI have posted multiple entries to the weekly journal on
Global
Guerrillas. Arab Big Brother (counter-cyberterrorism in
Egypt), CyberTerror? (terrorist attacks on the Internet), Flight
Delays (power infrastructure fragility), and The Weaker Player (is the
US the stronger player in the GWOT?).
Global Guerrillas on the March: The New
Front is Pakistan
Global Guerrillas on the March: The New
Front is Pakistan
02/05/2005 09:06 PMWT. Pakistan is quick to blame Iran for the growing global
guerrilla insurgency within Balochistan (see for more). This reflexive action
hides the real problem: al Qaeda (substantial remnants of which are
being sheltered in the province). The al Qaeda network has
clearly begun to help the Balochs apply global guerrilla methods
(learned from Iraq) in their fight with Pakistan.
Global Guerrillas: Dynamic Network
Analysis
Global Guerrillas: Dynamic Network
Analysis
04/25/2004 01:59 PMHow to analyze covert networks in the face of incomplete information.
How Many Social Networks Is Too Many?
How Many Social Networks Is Too Many?
11/14/2003 02:29 AMI keep reading about all these "social networking software" plays, and
the amazing thing to me is that, unlike during the last bubble,
everyone except people working for these companies
or
venture capitalists seem to know it's a bubble. Yet, they keep on
coming. The latest is that
Evite has launched their own version of Friendster
tied to their event organizing system, and eMode (known for their fun
tests and dating system) has changed their name to Tickle, which is
what their Friendster wannabe is called. They also bought another
social networking service, to take one of about 100 off the market.
Who the hell signs up for all of these systems?
Paten
ts aside, there is
nothing complicated in creating such a
site (there's even one Friendster rip off
called Yet Another Friendster Rip Off). The
complication comes in actually making money from such a site. The odd
thing, though, is the rampant skepticism about these sites. In the
90s bubble years, it was never like this. Sure, there was some
skepticism, but not the near universal skepticism that is focused on
social software space right now. What's funny is that you would think
so much skepticism would make the VCs stay away, but the reverse is
happening.
Social networks and my big a-ha
Social networks and my big a-ha
06/14/2004 07:45 PMWisconsin Technology Network,WI-54 minutes agoReaders of DEMOletter
know that I've written regularly about so- called social networks,
services such as LinkedIn, Spoke, and Google's Orkut. ...
Post-social at foo
Post-social at foo
09/11/2004 12:34 PMI'm at Friends of O'Reilly, the geeks-in-tents get-together that's
just too much fun. Since I'm on east coast time, I was up at 4:30 and
came to the largish room where people go for focused computing time.
Now at 9:30 there are about 20 stellar geeks sitting around tables
arranged into a U, each staring into her/his laptop, now and then
snorting in laughter and drawing their neighbors' attention to yet
some new wonder on the Web. From the faces each two feet from the next
but focused on the glowing screens, it'd be easy to mistake this for
anti-social...
Looking for gold in social networks
Looking for gold in social networks
02/10/2004 02:36 AMBut those plans could be short-circuited by Internet giants like Yahoo
and Google, as well as by established players in the online jobs and
dating categories ...
Photos and Social Networks
Photos and Social Networks
03/14/2005 06:11 PMVery cool visualizations of relationships among photo-sharing users
at FlickrLand.
IFTF on Social Networks
IFTF on Social Networks
04/09/2004 04:02 PMNext week I'm attending an Institute for the Future event on their
technology forecast. Came across a sample report on Social Networks in
the World of Abundant Connectivity (.pdf) that had this great comment
on technology product design: Social networks...
Social Networks Visualiser 0.3
Social Networks Visualiser 0.3
04/29/2004 08:22 PMA social networks visualizer.
Social Networks Visualiser 0.33
Social Networks Visualiser 0.33
05/23/2004 10:28 PMA social networks visualizer for Linux.
Alumni social networks
Alumni social networks
06/01/2004 11:40 PMTh
efacebook, Bruinwalk, and Online Networking.
Thefacebook.com recently
included UCLA in its collection of universities—generating 3,500
new UCLA users in just one month. It appears that UCLA’s bruinwalk.com will also be adding
social networking functionality to its menu of services, according to
Phillip Lin for the Daily Bruin.
Bruinwalk.com plans to offer services both
‘comparable’ and additive to Thefacebook.com.
What
social networking services are currently lacking on Thefacebook.com?
Do any readers utilize this university service?
[The Social
Software Weblog]
Can't say anything about UCLA - but I know that Affinity Engines
has a system for USC, as well as
Stanford and an upcoming one
for U. of Mich.
Social Networks Visualiser 0.32
Social Networks Visualiser 0.32
05/12/2004 05:34 AMA social networks visualizer.
Social Networks Against Spam
Social Networks Against Spam
02/18/2004 02:56 PMWhile the various social networking services continue to push forward,
some researchers are using the same basic concept of linking people to
their friends to see if
social networks
can help fight spam. The idea is that most people get their email
from a limited social network of people, and that network can be
worked out by looking at the "to:" "from:" and "cc:" portions of your
email. The theory being that if I know two people, they're much more
likely to know each other as well, and the system can link them, and
assume that if they email each other it's unlikely to be spam. Spam
messages, however, have no such linkage, and are more easily picked
out from the crowd. Of course, it doesn't sound like this works all
that well. You don't get any false positives, but it seems to only
recognize a little over 50% of all spam. The folks behind this
research say it's still useful, if used in combination with other spam
filtering techniques.
Inferring and Visualizing Social
Networks on IRC
Inferring and Visualizing Social
Networks on IRC
01/22/2004 06:16 PMBy using an
IRC bot to
monitor the activity in an IRC channel, it is possible to infer a
social network that connects the users in the channel.
Visualizing these social
networks is not only interesting, but has a variety of potential
applications.
Competition in Social Networks of Agents
Competition in Social Networks of Agents
09/25/2004 07:43 PMA new TRN
article discusses a new quantitative model of agent competition. The
new model has potential uses in many fields including the optimization
of communication and control within robot collectives. Traditional
game
theory has limitations in describing complex interaction in
collectives
of intelligent agents. The new theory allows the agents to make
choices
based on incomplete information. Even though mistakes are made, each
agent has access to the knowledge and experiences of its neighbors
allowing the collective to evolve complex dynamics quickly. One of the
more interesting results is that the a scalable leadership system of
"hubs" within the collective evolves spontaneously. For a more
in-depth
look at the theory and research see the original research paper:
Competition in Social
Networks: Emergence of a Scale-free Leadership Structure and
Collective
Efficiency (PDF format). The research was done
by M. Anghel, Zoltan
Toroczkai, Kevin E.
Bassler, and Gyorgy
Korniss. It was funded by grants from the Department of Energy and
National Science Foundation.
Adding Fees To Social Networks
Adding Fees To Social Networks
01/27/2004 02:24 AMOkay, take an idea that's being done to death all over the internet
for free - with new (sometimes deep pocketed) players showing up every
day. Then, wait until the market is so saturated that most people are
already getting sick of the idea... and then try to charge for it.
That appears to be the plan of Tickle (formerly eMode) that is now
going to try
to
start charging for some aspects of their "social network"
Friendster-clone. Since they know they're the first, and they must
know they're going to face backlash, they're only charging if you want
to contact someone who is separated by more than four degrees from you
- at which point, I wonder what the point of social networking is? If
the idea is to meet friends of friends because they might have similar
interests, what's the value in using such a system to meet a friend of
a friend of a friend of a friend of a friend? Isn't that just a
stranger? There are lots of ways to meet strangers online that don't
cost money.
The Heisenberg uncertainty of social
networks
The Heisenberg uncertainty of social
networks
01/04/2004 05:54 PM
One of my New Year's resolutions is to open up this weblog to a wider
audience. So on first mention of something obscurely technical, I'll
try to define it. Today's obscurely technical topic: FOAF.
...MSNBC: Social Networks Go to Work
MSNBC: Social Networks Go to Work
07/29/2004 05:06 PMI just filed this story for MSNBC about the business value of social
networking services. Truth or hype: can some SNSes become helpful
professional tools for businesses -- in particular, independent
entrepreneurs and smaller companies, for whom each new personal
connection is a significant business building block? Includes
interviews with unrepentant compulsive digital networkers
danah boyd,
Frank Keeney of
SOCALWUG,
Noah Glass of
audblog, Scott Beale of
Laughing Squid,
Scott Rafer of
Feedster, Travis Kalanick of
RedSwoosh (and, once upon a time,
Scour.net), and human router
Joi Ito
-- who said this:
Their usefulness depends on your needs and networking style. LinkedIn,
for example allows you to search histories and CVs in your network --
it's great for finding people who work in a particular company, or who
have worked with someone you know. It's also an interesting way to
find references for people or companies you're getting to know.
I think email is broken in a serious way, and SNS is trying to address
some of the issues associated with that breakdown. These networks may
get it right and really change the way we do business, but we're still
at the beginning of the development and evolution curve.
LinkSocial networks by referrer, through
bl0grolls
Social networks by referrer, through
bl0grolls
06/12/2002 06:22 AMMark Pilgrim compiles blogrolls from his referrer stats, then from the
blogrolls of the people he links to in his blogroll, then one level
further.Update: Mark does it with the Google "related links" feature
too, and says it would make a nice web service. It's my opinion such
web services will most probably exist by next year, if not sooner.
Esther Dyson on Social Networks
Esther Dyson on Social Networks
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"Social networks: will users pay to get
friends?"
"Social networks: will users pay to get
friends?"
02/10/2004 09:18 AMIdentity Theft and Social Networks
Identity Theft and Social Networks
01/02/2004 06:09 PMscubacuda writes "This Security Focus article looks at the lack of
security social network sites have, particularly their lack of SSL
logins, which means a ...
The problems of visualising social
networks...
The problems of visualising social
networks...
03/06/2004 01:55 AMFrom a pithy and somehow true post by Stewart Butterfield on
the
problems of creating visualisations of social networks:
Artist/curator friend Mark Soo did a piece for one of the
Infest openings where he visualized the curators' social network using
balloons with people's names printed on them as the nodes and ribbons
tying them together as the edges (the data comes from "invites" he got
the curators to send to one another). This was a great, inviting,
tactile "graph manipulaton interface". But the reason I liked it so
much was that it really brought out the problems of social networks
visualizations as a way of learning about the networks being
visualized: too confusing!
He also cites a few examples of some of the attempts to visualise
them - the problems should become self-evident:
Two things immediately occur to me - firstly how do we as humans
make sense of this data in our everyday lives (because we're
incorporating at least some of it into our mental models, surely, and
understanding that would make it easier for us to enhance those models
rather than creating new ones that create nothing but cognitive
overload), and secondly What would Tufte
do?.
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Missing the Point of Social Networks
Missing the Point of Social Networks
01/03/2004 11:02 PMI thought I was done talking about this stuff, but I guess not. In
response to my FriendRank post, I noticed something on
StartupSkills.com that I've been hearing lots of recently: Like so
many people, I've used Friendster and found it an intriguing idea from
both a technical and business standpoint. It is a revolutionary
concept, although by no means is it original. Social networking is a
subject taught in business schools around the globe. The
'entrepreneurial model' of social...
Social Networks: Will Users Pay to Get
Friends?
Social Networks: Will Users Pay to Get
Friends?
02/10/2004 02:55 AMDespite impressive recent growth, social networking Web sites like
Friendster face a challenge: how to make money.
Detecting Patterns in Complex Social
Networks
Detecting Patterns in Complex Social
Networks
02/16/2004 01:14 PMBoingBoing reader
Roland
Piquepaille says:
So-called social networking is very popular these days, as
show the proliferation of services like Friendster, Orkut and dozens
of others. But do the companies behind these services have any idea
of what is hidden inside their complicated networks? When these
networks reach a size of millions of users, it's not an easy task. A
researcher at the University of Michigan is trying to help, with a new
method for uncovering patterns in complicated networks, from football
conferences to food webs. This
overview contains more details and references about this
non-traditional method. It also includes a spectacular representation
of the Internet and another image showing a food web at Little Rock
Lake.
Linkboyd's social networks talk from ETCON
boyd's social networks talk from ETCON
02/11/2004 06:56 PMdanah boyd has posted the text of her ETCON talk,
Re
venge of the User: Lessons from Creator/User Battles.
Asking favors is fundamentally different than offering them. People
gain by being bridges. Thus, to be able to tell you about a job gives
me whuffie in our relationship. Feeling pressured to connect you to an
open job makes me uncomfortable. In all of the networks described
above, the bridge got to control the information flow. In Milgram's
"Small Worlds," if you didn't know that i knew the target person, you
may not have tried to pass it on to me. If you don't know that i am
dating someone who has something that you want, you won't try to
pressure me into giving you access to it. Thus, i can choose when to
reveal my connections in a situation where i can come across as being
helpful, rather than being put in a position to feel cornered.
Revealing the network shifts the power.
LinkMissing the Point of Social
Networks...and other things
Missing the Point of Social
Networks...and other things
01/04/2004 12:18 AMJeremy
Zawodny: "If you really think that Friendster, Tribe, LinkedIn, or
any of those other sites are going to survive doing what they're doing
today, you're really smoking something. However, if you think that
also means the technology isn't worthwhile--that the notion of
modeling social networks in software is a pointless exercise, well
then you're
really smoking something good. You
couldn't be more wrong."
True. This reminds me of a tendency I notice constantly and have been
meaning to articulate: The inability to see others evolving
(companies, products, people), even though one's own vision is all
about oneself (or company, or product) evolving.
Come to think of it, this is a corollary to one of my favoriate
truisms: We judge ourselves by our intensions and others by their
actions.
New Search Engine Taps Into Social
Networks
New Search Engine Taps Into Social
Networks
01/22/2004 07:26 PMGoogle, the most popular Internet search engine, ranks results by
polling all of cyberspace to find the most relevant information. ...
Namespaces and Social Networks in a
Tagged World
Namespaces and Social Networks in a
Tagged World
02/05/2005 09:12 PM
David Weinberger has
a brilliant
quick statement about how BOTH namespaces and social networks will
be used to disambiguate tags'.
I sure as hell hope so. I'd hate it if there was nothing to
disambiguate tags.
Namespaces and Social Networks in a Tagged World
As the interest in tagging and folksonomies grows, we are going to be
faced with a choice: Namespaces or social networks.
The problem is that tags are too simple and ambiguous. (That's also
their strength, but we'll let that go for the moment.) As tens of
millions of people start tagging Web resources, many tags will include
too many disparate items: When you're searching for pages about
London, do you really want to get pages about Jack London? And, no one
really wants information about London; we always want information
about some aspect of a topic. So, the "London"-tagged pages about
London's club scene are noise to someone looking for information about
London's form of government.
Namespaces, or domains of discourse if you prefer, are one way
around this. For example, the Global Voices group that encourages
inter-national blogging, suggests tagging relevant pages with the
prefix "gv" as in "gv:ghana" or "gv:thailand." We will undoubtedly see
a proliferation of such prefixes, and if tagging really takes off, we
may end up with an unregulated version of the domain system in which
multiple organizations squabble over who gets to use a particular
prefix.
Social networks provide an alternative. If I knew who the people
associated with Global Voices were, and if I knew who was the author
of particular tags, I could search for the "ghana" tag and find only
the ones created by GV members. That wouldn't be perfect because it
would get pages tagged by GV members for personal use, but it might be
good enough, especially with further refinement.
This is not an either/or. I'm confident we're going to see both
namespaces and social networks used to disambiguate tags. And there
are undoubtedly brilliant ideas waiting to be had. But it seems highly
likely to me that social networks are going to become more important
than ever in a world gone made with tagging.
[Operating
Manual for Social Tools]
I love this piece.
It's especially heartening for me to listen to David talk about
social networks - as I know he's against the 'Friendster/Tribe' school
of thought - but seems to have accepted a more generalized notion of
what social networks are - and will be.
Anyway - I never said I liked those explicit social networks - it's
just that it was so much dam fun gaming them (apparently Joi had fun
-too!) But it's up to folks like David - who keep us honest -
especially when it comes to the difference between something explcit
liek calling someone "your friend" - versus truth and honesty.
MSNBC - Online social networks go to
work
MSNBC - Online social networks go to
work
07/30/2004 05:07 AMOnline social networks go to work - Where personal connections lead to
professional allies .. it's now online on
MSNBC
msnbc.msn.com/id/5488683
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