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Barry Wellman
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S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology, FRSC NetLab Director
Department of Sociology University of Toronto
725 Spadina Avenue, Room 388 Toronto Canada M5S 2J4
http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman fax:+1-416-978-3963
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European Community Backs Business Use Of Social Networks , vnunet.com
Excerpts: Information Society and Media Commissioner Viviane Reding (...)
that social networking sites can have a positive impact on European
industry by boosting productivity and internal communications. "The result
is that clients are for the first time truly engaged in a company's
product innovation and development services, which should eventually lead
to an increased client loyalty and more purchases," she said. "Other
companies have opened specific networking sites for their own employees,
giving them the possibility to operate as a community no matter where they
physically are. "This gives employees the chance to feel involved in
company decisions which helps engagement and increases productivity."
(...)
* [7] EC Backs Business Use Of Social Networks: Vivane Reding Promotes
Benefits Of Facebook Et Al, P. Muncaster, 2008/09/26, vnunet.com *
Contributed by [8] Atin Das
[7] http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2227056/ec-backs-business-social
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Emergent Community Structure In Social Tagging Systems , Adv. Complex Sys.
Excerpt: A distributed classification paradigm known as collaborative
tagging has been widely adopted in new Web applications designed to manage
and share online resources. Users of these applications organize resources
(Web pages, digital photographs, academic papers) by associating with them
freely chosen text labels, or tags. Here we leverage the social aspects of
collaborative tagging and introduce a notion of resource distance based on
the collective tagging activity of users. We collect data from a popular
system and perform experiments showing that our definition of distance can
be used to build a weighted network of resources with a detectable
community structure. (...)
* [9] Emergent Community Structure In Social Tagging Systems, [10] C.
Cattuto, A. Baldassarri , V. D. P. Servedio , V. Loreto, Aug. 2008,
Contributed by Pritha Das, DOI: 10.1142/S0219525908001817, Advances in
Complex Systems
http://www.worldscinet.com/cgi-bin/details.cgi?id=jsname:acs&type=current
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Helping Behaviour And Regard For Others In Capuchin Monkeys , Biol.
Lett.
Excerpts: Altruism is an evolutionary puzzle. To date, much debate has
focused on whether helping others without regard to oneself is a uniquely
human behaviour, with a variety of empirical studies demonstrating a lack
of altruistic behaviour in chimpanzees even when the demands of behaving
altruistically seem minimal. By contrast, a recent experiment has
demonstrated that chimpanzees will help a human experimenter to obtain an
out-of-reach object, (...). Here, we examine the cognitive demands of
other-regarding behaviour (...). (...) capuchin monkeys helped human
experimenters even in the absence of a reward, but capuchins
systematically failed to take into account the perspective of others
(...).
* [23] Helping Behaviour And Regard For Others In Capuchin Monkeys (Cebus
Apella), J. L. Barnes , T. Hill , M. Langer , M. Martinez , L. R.
Santos, 2008/09/23, DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2008.0410, Biological Letters *
Contributed by [24] Atin Das
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http://journals.royalsociety.org/content/3n00335456l7464n/?p=5227178c9d7042fa8646a0c
ae7212728&pi=3
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