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Social Networks - Market Research
Web-based Social and Business
Networks is a growing trend
in Internet. To understand this phenomenom, the use of
market research methologies and tools is very useful.
Social Network Sites (SNS)
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SOCIAL NETWORKS
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 Social and People Networks
Websites
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A social network
is in its simplest form a mapping of who knows whom.
Each of us has a web of personal and professional relationships, and
these relationships vary in degree of strength and familiarity.
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BEBO
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Bebo is the next
generation social networking site where members can stay in touch
with their College friends, connect with friends, share photos, discover
new interests and just hang out.
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BLOGGER
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Blogger is owned by
Google and focuses on helping people have their own voice on the web,
from their personal perspective, for free.
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FACEBOOK
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Facebook is a social
utility that facilitates the spread of information through social
networks allowing people to share online the same way they do in
the real world.
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FRIENDSTER
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Friendster is an
online community that connects people through networks of friends
for dating or making new friends.
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MI GENTE
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The
Latino population in the US has exploded. MiGente.com offers Latinos
who share a similar bi-cultural experience a space in which they can express
themselves and meet one another.
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ASIAN AVENUE
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Asian Avenue is the
largest Asian-American media property ever published. Members can
express themselves and form meaningful personal and professional
relationships with people in their community.
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MY SPACE
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MySpace is an
online community that lets you meet your friends friends, where
you can you can share photos, journals and interests with your
growing network of mutual friends.
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NETWORKS THEORY
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Network Research and
Academia Concepts
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SOCIAL
NETWORKS (Wikipedia)
According to the Wikipedia, a social network is a
social structure made of nodes
which are generally individuals or organizations. It indicates
the ways in which they
are connected through various social familiarities ranging from
casual acquaintance
to close familial bonds. The maximum size of social networks
tends to be around
150 people (Dunbar's number) and the average size around
124.
SOCIAL NETWORK
THEORY
Social network theory
views social relationships in terms of nodes and ties. Nodes
are the individual actors within the networks, and ties are the relationships between
the actors. There can be many kinds of ties between the nodes. In its most simple form,
a social network is a map of all of the relevant ties between the nodes being studied.
INTERNET NETWORKS
STATISTICS
The value of any network is
correlated to the number of direct users it has.
A network of only two is nearly useless, whereas a network of many thousands
or millions can be very powerful. Through tracking of the number of IP addresses
any particular network controls, we get an idea of relative percentages of Internet
traffic that a given network probably handles. IP address control is one factor in
the calculation of the KNODES index.
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CONTENT NETWORKS
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Articles, Photos, Videos and other Content
Networks
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DIGG
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Digg is all about
user powered content. Every article on digg is submitted and voted
on by the digg community. Share, discover, bookmark, and promote the
news that is important to you.
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FLICKR
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Flickr is an
online photo management and sharing application with two main
goals: 1 - to help people make their photos available to the
people who matter to them, and 2 - to enable new ways of
organizing photos.
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YOU TUBE
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Everyone can watch
videos on YouTube. People can see first-hand accounts of current events,
find videos about their hobbies and interests, and discover the quirky and
unusual. YouTube empowers people to become Internet broadcasters.
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VIDDLER
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Viddler is an easy to use website
for uploading videos. Viddler also offers a host of tools to improve your
material once it's up there. It runs at high resolution in a user-friendly
player, that just looks better, and you can add chapters to videos too.
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SOCIAL NETWORKS RESEARCH
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Research on Social Networks, Sociology and Anthropology
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Social Software
Symposium
The University
of North Carolina School of Information and Library Science
hosted this two day event. The symposium explored two significant areas:
folksonomy/social tagging, and social network websites.
Market Research Online Coaching
Library
Articles with
free usage information and statistics about Internet
social and business networks.
Mashable - Social Networking
News
Selected links to
Internet social sites.
INSNA - The Study of Social
Networks
Network analysis is based on the intuitive notion that these patterns are
important features of the lives of the individuals who display them. Network
analysts believe that how an individual lives depends in large part on how that
individual is tied into the larger web of social connections. Many believe, moreover,
that the success or failure of societies and organizations often depends on the
patterning of their internal structure.
Social Networking
News
Social networking
tools and technologies allow like-minded people to find each
other. Issues of trust, reputation and privacy in digital social networks.
Social networking resources, tools and applications.
Theories Used in Information Systems
Research
This site provides researchers with summarized information on theories widely
used in IS research. Click on a linked theory name to find details about the
theory, some examples of IS papers using the theory, and links to related sites.
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BUSINESS NETWORKS
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Local and Global Business
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A business network can be defined as a group of people that have
some kind of commercial relationship. It could be a boss-employee,
buyer-supplier,
colleague-colleague, etc. According to experts,
business networking functions best when individuals offer to help others
to find connections, rather than "cold-calling" on prospects themselves.
For more on this topic, read
Business Networking
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OPEN BC
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The openBC networking
platform provides its members with innovative networking and communication
technologies for professional and secure contact management on the internet.
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iStockphoto
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The Stock Photography network,
features large collection of member-generated royalty-free images, at the
world's best prices. Find the best Stock Photography, Vector illustrations,
and Flash files online, at prices for everyone.
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XING
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Xing enables you
to discover professional people, opportunities and privileges, and
to manage and deepen your relationships – both online and live.
Xing features multilingualism, discovery capability and advanced
contact management tools.
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RYZE
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Ryze helps people
make connections and grow their networks. You can network to grow
your business, build your career and life, find a job and make sales.
Or just keep in touch with friends. Members get a free networking-oriented
home page and can send messages to other members.
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SOCIAL NETWORKS NEWS
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Blogs and News
Websites
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Mashable
Mashable is the world's largest blog focused
exclusively on Web 2.0 and Social Networking news, featuring new Web sites reviews,
publishing breaking news on what's new on the web. Mashable is popular with bloggers
and members of social networking sites — an increasingly influential demographic.
Sociable
Blog
SociableBlog is a Social Networking and Social
Media Blog that presents the latest news, articles, videos on social networking,
social media, social community and social software from all the world. If you are
launching a new social network or community, or a web tool and want people to know
about that, SociableBlog wants to know and will be happy to review and share.
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