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Social Network Analysis for Startups

Social Network Analysis for Startups, 1st Edition

By Maksim Tsvetovat, Alexander Kouznetsov

Does your startup rely on social network analysis? This concise guide provides a statistical framework to help you identify social processes hidden among the tons of data now available. Social network analysis (SNA) is a discipline that predates Fac...

Format: Print, Ebook, Safari Books Online

Publish Date: September 2011

Generating Dynamic Social Networks from Large Scale Unstructured Data - ...

Generating Dynamic Social Networks from Large Scale Unstructured Data - ..., 1st Edition

By Tim Estes

Developing a social network map is fundamental to comprehensively understanding a person. Social networks are dynamic and better derived from real-world data than static configurations. However, the vast majority of this real world data is unstructu...

Format: Safari Books Online

Publish Date: March 10, 2011

Find a Job Through Social Networking

Find a Job Through Social Networking, 2nd Edition

By Ellen Sautter, Diane Crompton

Job seekers discover how to launch their social networking efforts and will gain advice for maximizing LinkedIn, Twitter, blogs and other sites....

Format: Ebook

Publish Date: September 2010

Social Network Analysis Isn't Just For People: Strata 2012 - O'Reilly ...

By Matt Biddulph

The tools of social network analysis are based on mathematical network theory. There is very little in these techniques that actually requires that the data represents social activity. We'll show how these techniques can be applied to data from areas such as geo, linguistics and the Wikipedia link graph. We'll visualise and explore the data using Gephi, the "Photoshop for graphs".

Publish Date: February 28, 2012

How "Future Tense" Social Networking will transform the way we live, shop, ...

By Rene Pinnell

Mobile has done more than any trend to drag social networking into the real world, but even industry leaders like Foursquare fall short. A check-in just isn't very good at connecting you with your friends. But what happens when you push the time horizon of the check-in into the future? What happens when you shift the paradigm from "I'm here now" to "I'll be there later?"

Publish Date: April 02, 2012

Social network analysis isn't just for social networks - O'Reilly Radar

By Howard Wen

The scientific methodology of social network analysis (SNA) helps explain not just how people connect, but why they come together as well. Here,

Publish Date: November 09, 2011

Mapping social media networks (with no coding) using NodeXL: Strata 2012 - ...

By Marc Smith

Maps of the complex connections that form when people link, like, reply, rate, review, favorite, friend, follow, edit, and mention one another can reveal important trends. It is possible to create network maps with free and open tools that identify key people and sub-groups in any social media population with just a few key clicks. Can you make a pie chart? You can now make a network chart.

Publish Date: February 28, 2012

Mining the Social Web

Mining the Social Web, 1st Edition

By Matthew A. Russell

Popular social networks such as Facebook and Twitter generate a tremendous amount of valuable data on topics and use patterns. Who’s talking to whom? What are they talking about? How often are they talking? This concise and practical book shows...

Format: Print, Ebook, Safari Books Online

Publish Date: January 2011

Programming Social Applications

Programming Social Applications, 1st Edition

By Jonathan LeBlanc

Social networking has made one thing clear: websites and applications need to provide users with experiences tailored to their preferences. This in-depth guide shows you how to build rich social frameworks, using open source technologies and specific...

Format: Print, Ebook, Safari Books Online

Publish Date: August 2011

RSS never blocks you or goes down: why social networks need to be ...

By Andy Oram

Recurring outages on major networking sites such as Twitter and LinkedIn, along with incidents where Twitter members were mysteriously dropped for days at a time, have led many people to challenge the centralized control exerted by companies running social networks. We may have been willing to build our virtual houses on shaky foundations when they were temporary beach huts; but now we need to examine the ground on which many are proposing to build our virtual shopping malls and even our virtual federal offices. Instead of the constant churning among the commercial sites du jour (Friendster, MySpace, Facebook, Twitter), the next generation of social networking increasingly appears to require a decentralized, peer-to-peer infrastructure. This article looks at efforts in that space and suggests principles to guide development.

Publish Date: September 14, 2009

OpenSocial Network Programming

OpenSocial Network Programming, 1st Edition

By Lynne Grewe

OpenSocial is a set of common application programming interfaces for Web-based social network applications. As the first book on OpenSocial, this valuable resource discusses the unique area of social networking and the needs and different attribut...

Format: Ebook

Publish Date: April 2009

Social Networking is the Means to Achieve Workplace Collaboration - O'Reilly ...

By Mark Drapeau

Yesterday I live-blogged a bit from the terrific Government 2.0 event produced by FedScoop.com at the Newseum in Washington, DC. I wrote a post about how collaboration was not the means, but rather an end made possible by the means of social networking tools. You can read my original writing and some initial comments here. Here on O'Reilly Radar, I expand on these ideas.

Publish Date: October 16, 2009

Being online: Group identities and social network identities - O'Reilly Radar

By Andy Oram

Groups take on their own identities online, and social networks threaten to subsume individual identities into groups. This section of the identity article explores grouping in all its online facets.

Publish Date: December 28, 2009

The Social Media Marketing Book

The Social Media Marketing Book, 1st Edition

By Dan Zarrella

Take advantage of the phenomenon that is quickly becoming the most effective way to market brands, products, and services -- social media. This easy-to-understand book introduces you to social networks, blogging, and several other websites, and helps...

Format: Print, Ebook, Safari Books Online

Publish Date: November 2009

The Sustainable Network

The Sustainable Network, 1st Edition

By Sarah Sorensen

The Sustainable Network demonstrates how we can tackle challenges, ranging from energy conservation to economic and social innovation, using the global network -- of which the public Internet is just one piece. To help solve a myriad of problems toda...

Format: Print, Ebook, Safari Books Online

Publish Date: October 2009

Lulu Adding WeRead's Social Networking Tools - O'Reilly Radar

By Mac Slocum

Lulu is teaming up with weRead, a book-centric social network. From The Bookseller: The agreement would combine Lulu.com's free self-publishing tools and distributions capabilities with weRead's independent ratings and reviews and readership communities on social networks. (Via Jose Afonso Furtado's Twitter stream) Related Stories: Free Ebooks with Embedded Ads Via Scribd-Lulu Partnership POD Opens Door to Magazine Experiments and Customization...

Publish Date: August 06, 2008

 
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OST Student

"...it is obvious that all O'Reilly School of Technology teachers are pros. Besides that, the courses are done perfectly. They emphasize the important concepts and contain 'no fluff'."
– Kent Elchuk

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Social Network Analysis for Startups

Social Network Analysis for Startups, 1st Edition

By Maksim Tsvetovat, Alexander Kouznetsov

Does your startup rely on social network analysis? This concise guide provides a statistical framework to help you identify social processes hidden among the tons of data now available. Social network analysis (SNA) is a discipline that predates Fac...

Format: Print, Ebook, Safari Books Online

Publish Date: September 2011

Generating Dynamic Social Networks from Large Scale Unstructured Data - ...

Generating Dynamic Social Networks from Large Scale Unstructured Data - ..., 1st Edition

By Tim Estes

Developing a social network map is fundamental to comprehensively understanding a person. Social networks are dynamic and better derived from real-world data than static configurations. However, the vast majority of this real world data is unstructu...

Format: Safari Books Online

Publish Date: March 10, 2011

Find a Job Through Social Networking

Find a Job Through Social Networking, 2nd Edition

By Ellen Sautter, Diane Crompton

Job seekers discover how to launch their social networking efforts and will gain advice for maximizing LinkedIn, Twitter, blogs and other sites....

Format: Ebook

Publish Date: September 2010

Social Network Analysis Isn't Just For People: Strata 2012 - O'Reilly ...

By Matt Biddulph

The tools of social network analysis are based on mathematical network theory. There is very little in these techniques that actually requires that the data represents social activity. We'll show how these techniques can be applied to data from areas such as geo, linguistics and the Wikipedia link graph. We'll visualise and explore the data using Gephi, the "Photoshop for graphs".

Publish Date: February 28, 2012

How "Future Tense" Social Networking will transform the way we live, shop, ...

By Rene Pinnell

Mobile has done more than any trend to drag social networking into the real world, but even industry leaders like Foursquare fall short. A check-in just isn't very good at connecting you with your friends. But what happens when you push the time horizon of the check-in into the future? What happens when you shift the paradigm from "I'm here now" to "I'll be there later?"

Publish Date: April 02, 2012

Social network analysis isn't just for social networks - O'Reilly Radar

By Howard Wen

The scientific methodology of social network analysis (SNA) helps explain not just how people connect, but why they come together as well. Here,

Publish Date: November 09, 2011

Mapping social media networks (with no coding) using NodeXL: Strata 2012 - ...

By Marc Smith

Maps of the complex connections that form when people link, like, reply, rate, review, favorite, friend, follow, edit, and mention one another can reveal important trends. It is possible to create network maps with free and open tools that identify key people and sub-groups in any social media population with just a few key clicks. Can you make a pie chart? You can now make a network chart.

Publish Date: February 28, 2012

Mining the Social Web

Mining the Social Web, 1st Edition

By Matthew A. Russell

Popular social networks such as Facebook and Twitter generate a tremendous amount of valuable data on topics and use patterns. Who’s talking to whom? What are they talking about? How often are they talking? This concise and practical book shows...

Format: Print, Ebook, Safari Books Online

Publish Date: January 2011

Programming Social Applications

Programming Social Applications, 1st Edition

By Jonathan LeBlanc

Social networking has made one thing clear: websites and applications need to provide users with experiences tailored to their preferences. This in-depth guide shows you how to build rich social frameworks, using open source technologies and specific...

Format: Print, Ebook, Safari Books Online

Publish Date: August 2011

RSS never blocks you or goes down: why social networks need to be ...

By Andy Oram

Recurring outages on major networking sites such as Twitter and LinkedIn, along with incidents where Twitter members were mysteriously dropped for days at a time, have led many people to challenge the centralized control exerted by companies running social networks. We may have been willing to build our virtual houses on shaky foundations when they were temporary beach huts; but now we need to examine the ground on which many are proposing to build our virtual shopping malls and even our virtual federal offices. Instead of the constant churning among the commercial sites du jour (Friendster, MySpace, Facebook, Twitter), the next generation of social networking increasingly appears to require a decentralized, peer-to-peer infrastructure. This article looks at efforts in that space and suggests principles to guide development.

Publish Date: September 14, 2009

OpenSocial Network Programming

OpenSocial Network Programming, 1st Edition

By Lynne Grewe

OpenSocial is a set of common application programming interfaces for Web-based social network applications. As the first book on OpenSocial, this valuable resource discusses the unique area of social networking and the needs and different attribut...

Format: Ebook

Publish Date: April 2009

Social Networking is the Means to Achieve Workplace Collaboration - O'Reilly ...

By Mark Drapeau

Yesterday I live-blogged a bit from the terrific Government 2.0 event produced by FedScoop.com at the Newseum in Washington, DC. I wrote a post about how collaboration was not the means, but rather an end made possible by the means of social networking tools. You can read my original writing and some initial comments here. Here on O'Reilly Radar, I expand on these ideas.

Publish Date: October 16, 2009

Being online: Group identities and social network identities - O'Reilly Radar

By Andy Oram

Groups take on their own identities online, and social networks threaten to subsume individual identities into groups. This section of the identity article explores grouping in all its online facets.

Publish Date: December 28, 2009

The Social Media Marketing Book

The Social Media Marketing Book, 1st Edition

By Dan Zarrella

Take advantage of the phenomenon that is quickly becoming the most effective way to market brands, products, and services -- social media. This easy-to-understand book introduces you to social networks, blogging, and several other websites, and helps...

Format: Print, Ebook, Safari Books Online

Publish Date: November 2009

The Sustainable Network

The Sustainable Network, 1st Edition

By Sarah Sorensen

The Sustainable Network demonstrates how we can tackle challenges, ranging from energy conservation to economic and social innovation, using the global network -- of which the public Internet is just one piece. To help solve a myriad of problems toda...

Format: Print, Ebook, Safari Books Online

Publish Date: October 2009

Lulu Adding WeRead's Social Networking Tools - O'Reilly Radar

By Mac Slocum

Lulu is teaming up with weRead, a book-centric social network. From The Bookseller: The agreement would combine Lulu.com's free self-publishing tools and distributions capabilities with weRead's independent ratings and reviews and readership communities on social networks. (Via Jose Afonso Furtado's Twitter stream) Related Stories: Free Ebooks with Embedded Ads Via Scribd-Lulu Partnership POD Opens Door to Magazine Experiments and Customization...

Publish Date: August 06, 2008