Social Networks


It's what you know about what who you know knows.

Overviews
We use people to find content. We use content to find people.
Social Network Analysis - by Peter Morville
Introduction to Social Network Analysis - by Valdis Krebs
International Network for Social Network Analysis
Many 2 Many - blog hosted by Corante

Social Software
Software that supports group communication and cooperation.
Are You Ready for Social Software - article in Darwin
Social Software and the Politics of Groups - article by Clay Shirky
Enterprise Social Software - blog by Socialtext
Babble - by IBM Social Computing
The Augmented Social Network - article by Ken Jordan, Jan Hauser, Steven Foster
The Future Of Social Networking Sites Like Orkut, Ryze, Friendster - by Dana Greenlee

Reputation & Trust
Respect. Credibility. It's all about the Whuffie.
The Web of Trust - from Epinions
Top Reviewers List FAQ - from Amazon
What is Karma - on Slashdot
About Feedback - on eBay
Trust by Design - article by Peter Morville
Userati - cocitation network by Chris McEvoy
Trust or Bust - article by Jakob Nielsen
Web Credibility Project - at the Stanford Persuasive Technology Lab

Social Networks - Examples
Online communities that help people find people.
Orkut
Ryze
Friendster
LinkedIn
ZeroDegrees
Meetup
Tickle
Tribe

"But for me, the real rough life is right here, on-world. The little enclaves, each one is like an alternate history of humanity - what if we'd taken the Free Energy, but not deadheading? What if we'd taken deadheading, but only for the critically ill, not for people who didn't want to be bored on long bus-rides? Or no hyperlinks, no ad-hocracy, no Whuffie? Each one is different and wonderful."
- Cory Doctorow in Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom

"Organization charts prescribe that work and information flow in a hierarchy, but network mapping reveals they actually flow through a vast web of informal channels."
- Valdis Krebs

"In a collective manner, we somehow create hubs, websites to which everyone links. They are easy to find. Compared to these hubs, the rest of the Web is invisible. For all practical purposes, pages linked by only one or two other documents do not exist. It is almost impossible to find them."
- Albert-Laszlo Barabasi in Linked