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Great video on the real potential of social networks, twitter, Google+, FB if used properly to acquire an audience, fans, followers, build community.
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“The same mathematics of networks that governs the interactions of molecules in a cell, neurons in a brain, and species in an ecosystem can be used to understand the complex interconnections between people, the emergence of group identity, and the paths along which information, norms, and behavior spread from person to person to person.”
— James Fowler answering the question “If you only had a single statement to pass on to others summarizing the most vital lesson to be drawn from your work, what would it be?” inStarting Over, SEED, Aprill 22, 2011.
Th e argument asserts that our acquaintances (weak ties) are less
likely to be socially involved with one another than are our close
friends (strong ties).Thus the set of people made u p of any individual and his or her acquaintances comprises a low-density network (one in which many of the possible relational lines are absent) whereas the set consisting of the same individual and his or her close friends will be densely knit (many of the possible lines are present).
The hidden influence of social networks: Nicholas Christakis on TED.com
Manuel Lima: The Power of Networks. Mapping an increasingly complex world | TED
The Power of Networks — Animated by RSA
And moreeee:
☞ Nicholas Christakis: How social networks predict epidemics, TED video, June 2010
☞ Minority rules: Scientists discover tipping point for the spread of ideas
☞ The ‘rich club’ that rules your brain
☞ Eshel Ben-Jacob, Learning from Bacteria about Social Networks, Google Tech Talk, Sept 30, 2011 Video
☞ Genes and social networks: new research links genes to friendship networks
☞ Manuel Castells, Network Theories of Power – video lecture, USCAnnenberg
☞ Networks tag on Lapidarium
Kevin Bacon has a Bacon number of 0
I read somewhere that everybody on this planet is separated by only six other people. Six degrees of separation. Between us and everybody else on this planet. The president of the United States. A gondolier in Venice. fill in the names. I find that A) tremendously comforting that we’re so close and B) like Chinese water torture that we’re so close. Because you have to find the right six people to make the connection. It’s not just big names. It’s anyone. A native in a rain forest. A Tierra del Fuegan. An Eskimo. I am bound to everyone on this planet by a trail of six people. It’s a profound thought. How Paul found us. How to find the man whose son he pretends to be. Or perhaps is his son, although I doubt it. How every person is a new door, opening up into other worlds. Six degrees of separation between me and everyone else on this planet. But to find the right six people.
The small-world experiment comprised several experiments conducted by Stanley Milgram and other researchers examining the average path length for social networks of people in the United States. The research was groundbreaking in that it suggested that human society is a small-world-type network characterized by short path-lengths. The experiments are often associated with the phrase “six degrees of separation“, although Milgram did not use this term himself.