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Sociology and the Internet, Social Media, and Mobile Social Software

Maintained Relationships on Facebook

March 10th, 2009 · 1 Comment

This past week the Economist published a piece entitled Primates On Facebook that described some research done by the Facebook Data Team. Unfortunately, the article did not include any of the data visualizations, so we thought we would take the opportunity to describe our approach, the data, and our analysis in more detail. For more [...]

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Tags: Facebook · Research · Social network

Social Sorting for Email

April 30th, 2008 · No Comments

In a recent Guardian column, Cory Doctorow discusses his tips and tricks for email. He highlights his favorite piece of “email ninjitsu” – sorting by subject – in this boingboing post. But what caught my attention was this bit from the full article text: Colour-code messages from known senders Somewhere in the guts of your [...]

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Tags: Shameless self-promotion · email