http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Mobile-and-Wireless/Microsofts-Windows-Phone-Apps-Maybe-Benefitting-From-HP-Google-634091/ In this article, Microsoft can be seen to be in either a balanced triangle with HP and Google or as three nodes in a web of technology companies. Microsoft would have a (-) relation with both HP and Google because it benefits from the weaknesses of the other two companies; this antagonistic connection would […]
Tumblr: a directed social network
http://technolog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/09/09/7690677-tumblr-marks-its-10-billionth-post Tumblr, a blogging platform founded in 2007 by David Karp, recently marked its 10 billionth post. The platform allows users to post pictures, text, videos, links, quotes, and audio to their blog, which they can choose to keep open to the public or private. The rise in popularity of this blog could be accounted […]
Social Networks – A Superorganism
Nicholas Christakis investigates the role of social networks and their effects in our lives. In his 2010 TED Talk in Long Beach, California, he discusses how we are all embedded in vast social networks, and how one’s location in the network may have a strong, unknown influence on one’s life. A decade and a half […]