Tag Archives: social network sites

On why people ask questions on social networks

24 Apr 2010 – 19:05

Social search behavior is now generally agreed to be common enough that companies like Google are buying up companies like Aardvark, and academic researchers are asking good questions about the value of networks for question-answering (Q-A). I have done a bit of research in this area myself, and so I was quite pleased to read [...]

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How big is your social network?

1 Aug 2008 – 16:08

I released a survey on social network size yesterday. We’re interested in seeing what correlation (if any) exists between people’s online social network (size) and real life, actual social connections. The survey asks a few short questions for people to answer, trying to stay as specific as possible to reduce speculation and estimating on network/connection [...]

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Rapleaf data on social network size

30 Jul 2008 – 23:00

How very timely that I discovered this article today about a group called Rapleaf, who purport to understand how people use the social web by following their “internet footprint.” As a quick aside: I was pretty disappointed after signing up for an account to see what info they had on me—it was hardly complete. A [...]

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Top “social network” sites according to my “friends”

30 Jul 2008 – 11:51

As part of a larger study I’m working on, I need a way to validate social network measures like size and diversity. For example, if Johnny has 1000 friends on Facebook, you would say that his online social network is much larger than Suzy’s of 100 friends. But “in real life,” does Johnny really have [...]

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