Tag: social networks

Who's Talking About Me?

By Erica Naone | 11/18/2009 | 0 Comments

Web experts are designing technologies that can collect scattered bits of online conversation.

Fixing E-Mail

By Erica Naone | 11/13/2009 | 1 Comment

Experts at Defrag believe e-mail can benefit from lessons learned on the social Web.

How Facebook Copes with 300 Million Users

By Erica Naone | 09/22/2009 | 5 Comments

VP of Engineering Mike Schroepfer reveals the tricks that keep the world's biggest social network going.

The Evolution of Retweeting

By Kristina Grifantini | 08/26/2009 | 0 Comments

Formalizing the retweet may change people's behavior.

Social Networks Keep Privacy in the Closet

By Erica Naone | 06/11/2009 | 1 Comment

Economics may explain why it's so hard to find and configure privacy settings on many social networks.

Unmasking Social-Network Users

By Erica Naone | 05/06/2009 | 0 Comments

Researchers find a way to identify individuals in supposedly anonymous social-network data.

A Smarter Way to Dig Up Experts

By Erica Naone | 04/08/2009 | 0 Comments

Data-mining techniques could make it easier to locate expertise.

Turning Social Networks Against Users

By Erica Naone | 09/15/2008 | 1 Comment

Applications built on social networks may be the ideal way to distribute malicious code.

Social Networking Meets Personal Finance

By Kate Greene | 05/09/2008 | 1 Comment

Web-based startups offer social features that help people make better financial decisions.

Flocking Together on the Web

By Tim Barribeau | 05/07/2008 | 2 Comments

A new Web browser unifies access to multiple social networks.

One Avatar, Many Worlds

By Erica Naone | 04/08/2008 | 8 Comments

Companies want to let users carry their avatar identities online.

Social Search

By Erica Naone | 02/01/2008 | 4 Comments

A new website will offer personalized search results based on the user's social network.

Virtual Labor Lost

By Erica Naone | 12/05/2007 | 6 Comments

The failure of a highly anticipated, multiplayer game shows the limits of academic virtual worlds.

Power to the People

By Erica Naone | 10/12/2007 | 0 Comments

Eventful, a grassroots website that began by drawing musicians to small markets, has trained its sights on politicians.

A Letter to the Editor from Joshua Epstein

By Joshua Epstein | 06/27/2007 | 0 Comments

A clarification regarding the article "Artificial Societies and Virtual Violence."