Comments on: 3DSN: Summary http://jaxn.org/article/2007/08/20/3dsn-summary/ the philosophy of technology Sat, 30 Aug 2008 05:32:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: fishwreck http://jaxn.org/article/2007/08/20/3dsn-summary/#comment-30750 fishwreck Thu, 27 Sep 2007 19:52:15 +0000 http://jaxn.org/article/2007/08/20/3dsn-summary/#comment-30750 I meant to comment on this after Bar Camp and apparently never got around to it. Pretend I said something about how interesting I found your presentation and how I would enjoy the opportunity to discuss 3DSN further with you someday. Flash forward to the present: Today, I stumbled upon this article in InformationWeek (where by "stumbled upon" I mean "it said Facebook on the cover and I had to read it") and found this interesting tidbit: "Not all social network tools follow the approach of Facebook and LinkedIn, with communities at their core. Using statistical techniques developed two decades ago, Visible Path's software can separate strong and weak relationships by peering into information sources, collecting and dissecting records of in-person appointments recorded in calendars, call records, e-mails, the ratios of incoming to outgoing messages, and the length of time spent communicating with individuals." http://www.informationweek.com/internet/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=201808149 (sixth paragraph from the end) Looks like someone has been working on this already, just waiting for social networks to be invented. Are you familiar at all with Visible Path? I meant to comment on this after Bar Camp and apparently never got around to it. Pretend I said something about how interesting I found your presentation and how I would enjoy the opportunity to discuss 3DSN further with you someday. Flash forward to the present: Today, I stumbled upon this article in InformationWeek (where by “stumbled upon” I mean “it said Facebook on the cover and I had to read it”) and found this interesting tidbit:

“Not all social network tools follow the approach of Facebook and LinkedIn, with communities at their core. Using statistical techniques developed two decades ago, Visible Path’s software can separate strong and weak relationships by peering into information sources, collecting and dissecting records of in-person appointments recorded in calendars, call records, e-mails, the ratios of incoming to outgoing messages, and the length of time spent communicating with individuals.”

http://www.informationweek.com/internet/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=201808149 (sixth paragraph from the end)

Looks like someone has been working on this already, just waiting for social networks to be invented. Are you familiar at all with Visible Path?

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