Individual people are the connective tissue that connects organizations to their surroundings. So what happens when those people leave an organization, along with the social network connections they built while at the company?

(1) Rethinking Information Diversity in Networks People are more likely to share information from their strong ties, but because of their abundance, weak ties are primarily responsible for the majority of information spread on Facebook. The figure above illustrates how a majority of influence (orange) can be generated by weak ties, even if strong ties are individually more influential. tags: ...

By connecting Google+ to search, Google is tiering web search into three, very useful, layers: global search, social search and personal search.

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Twitter is mad at Google for connecting Google+ with search - and for commoditizing their service in the process. How this might not be such a bad thing.

This was the original test from the now revised “Why Our Software Needs Social Context” An Idea for Filtering and Signaling Social Context Imagine your phone had a simple slider bar that allowed you to filter your incoming stream of information in real time. Slide the control up to the top to maximum “relationship-mode,” and you get the full spectrum ...

Tracking 18th-century “social network” through letters – YouTube Researchers map thousands of letters exchanged in the 18th century’s “Republic of Letters” and learn at a glance what it once took a lifetime of study to comprehend. tags: networks Articles AOC Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

Watch the TEDxRainier talk on "The Soulful Company" -- a new generation of firms that won't just tap the soul, but feed it too.

Get ready for the geo-tag - and a revolution in the way you use your phone to search the places around you!

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