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Some potentially relevant papers can be found here:
http://www.ischool.washington.edu/mcdonald/cscw04/

In particular, you might want to look at Akella, P., Interrante, M., &
Granovetter, M. "Selling the Spoke way" (.pdf available at the above
site) which examines spoke.com's network. Akella was an employee (a
founder?) of the firm and, from what I understand, a key architect of
the system.

 - Jennifer

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