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You may find some of Sheen Levine's work particularly relevant:
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I also suggest visit the website for our forthcoming book at
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http://thevirtualhandshake.com/online-social-networks-guide/ .





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> From: Social Networks Discussion Forum
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Jennifer Kurkoski
> Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2005 17:58
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> Subject: Re: Orkut, LinkedIn, ...
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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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> : Dear all,
> : I assume some of you have done studied Orkut, LinkedIn, and
> : similar social network utilization/exploitation tools. Could
> : you please point us to relevant papers? Pointers to open
> : source community studies are also welcome.
> :
> : We are particularly interested to analyze and visualize the
> : structure and evolution of growing social networks and to
> : study the interplay of social network structure and social
> : network usage.
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> : Thanks and regards,
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