Zylstra: “Marc Smith, whom I have the pleasure of knowing for some years now, is a sociologist who used to be with Microsoft Research. There he, amongst other things, helped data mine use-net for behavioral patterns (‘answer-persons’, ‘hobby horse riders’, ‘trolls’, ‘noobs’ etc), and helped develop things such as an e-mail triage tool based on how important the sender seems to be to you considering your past e-mailing behavior. – Working independently now at Connected Action he brings us NodeXL, which he is pushing into the direction of providing free and open tools that support the analysis of social media usage. In other words to help us analyze the global networks we weave and see how we use them to navigate the world. Part of that analysis is seeing who is in your network (not everybody might be visible to you, we see most of our network relations as ‘spokes’ in a wheel with us as center, and only for a limited part do we see the connections of our connections), and another is helping us see how your connections are connected between eachother.”
Gerrit Eicker 15:26 on 16. November 2009 Permalink |
Zylstra: “Marc Smith, whom I have the pleasure of knowing for some years now, is a sociologist who used to be with Microsoft Research. There he, amongst other things, helped data mine use-net for behavioral patterns (‘answer-persons’, ‘hobby horse riders’, ‘trolls’, ‘noobs’ etc), and helped develop things such as an e-mail triage tool based on how important the sender seems to be to you considering your past e-mailing behavior. – Working independently now at Connected Action he brings us NodeXL, which he is pushing into the direction of providing free and open tools that support the analysis of social media usage. In other words to help us analyze the global networks we weave and see how we use them to navigate the world. Part of that analysis is seeing who is in your network (not everybody might be visible to you, we see most of our network relations as ‘spokes’ in a wheel with us as center, and only for a limited part do we see the connections of our connections), and another is helping us see how your connections are connected between eachother.”