Dan Zarrella: Social media science and Twitter linguistic analysis

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This UML diagram describes the domain of LinkedIn social networking system. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Dan is an interesting guy with a strong web and social networking background. He is a social media scientist and has designed a number of linguistic tools to analyze online behavior.

My Bio | Dan Zarrella.

Selectminds: Social Recruiting and Community Management Software

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Social Recruiting and Community Management Software.

Online Community Software | Leverage Software

Online Community Software |

Market Research, Facebook-style
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 Software.

Another instant social networking market research

Intronetworks.com: Social Networking Platform for Private Online Communities

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Social Networking Platform for Private Online Communities.

Another instant social network product market research community tool

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Bob Servant: the spammer’s nightmare

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English: Diagram of sending spam e-mails. Polski: Schemat wysy?ania mailowego spamu. Italiano: Operazioni a catena per l’invio di spam via e-mail. Español: Diagrama de envio de e-mails con Spam. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Bob Servant – Official Website.

This guy is hilarious. He has decided to write back to spammers and harass them into submission with bizarre ploys.

CBI Social Media Pharma Conference Videos now available from Pixels and Pills

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English: Infographic on how Social Media are being used, and how everything is changed by them. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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More videos and tweets from the CBI social media conference by Pixels and Pills are now posted on their site. The importance of trust and authenticity in patient/professional/industry interaction thru new online channels is emphasized.

CBI Social Media Tools Conference Agenda

HowAboutWe: accidental anthropologists capitalize on the principle of homophily in online dating

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Recently social data science has found fertile new ground in the booming field of online dating. By tweaking algorithms to increase the likelihood of a match, many online dating sites are becoming defacto behavioral science labs, constantly analyzing what makes people want to hang out, or start a relationship. Now along comes another company that is capitalizing on the principle of homophily: the fact that in general people like lemmings  like to do what they see others doing. One month is it is taco joints, the next month fondue.

HowAboutWe | Online Dating 

The politics of the internet: orkutificação or becoming “orkutised”

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In contrast to utopian ideals of some, the Internet like most other domains of social conduct is rapidly being divided into closed networks, haves and have nots. MySpace has been branded “lower class” and in Brazil wealthier citizens are migrating to Facebook from Orkut (Google’s social network) and branding those who still use the older network  as orkutificação, or becoming “orkutised”. The word in fact has been expanded into other areas of social life: A place undergoing orkutificação is full of strangers, open to anyone.

E-communication and society: A cyber-house divided | The Economist.

You are not a gadget: Considering the social side of new technologies

Jaron Lanier
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A good critique of some of the risks and issues of today’s exploding use of online social media. Jaron Lanier argues it is creating a wealth of fake, fragmented social relationships, endlessly rehashed content and demeaning true human talents. And this is coming from a hardcore techie who developed VR. However his parents relocated to New Mexico from NYC to live in tents for much of his childhood so I suppose he has seen both sides of the coin…

Brain scan: The virtual curmudgeon | The Economist

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