Tag: social networks

Computers Can't Answer Everything

By Erica Naone | 11/19/2009 | 7 Comments

A startup says natural language processing works best with human intelligence.

Who's Talking About Me?

By Erica Naone | 11/18/2009 | 0 Comments

Web experts are designing technologies that can collect scattered bits of online conversation.

Fixing E-Mail

By Erica Naone | 11/13/2009 | 1 Comment

Experts at Defrag believe e-mail can benefit from lessons learned on the social Web.

How Facebook Copes with 300 Million Users

By Erica Naone | 09/22/2009 | 5 Comments

VP of Engineering Mike Schroepfer reveals the tricks that keep the world's biggest social network going.

The Evolution of Retweeting

By Kristina Grifantini | 08/26/2009 | 0 Comments

Formalizing the retweet may change people's behavior.

Mining Social Networks for Clues

By Erica Naone | 07/31/2009 | 0 Comments

A researcher shows how programming tools can be used to track users' real-life movements and behavior.

Social Networks Keep Privacy in the Closet

By Erica Naone | 06/11/2009 | 1 Comment

Economics may explain why it's so hard to find and configure privacy settings on many social networks.

Unmasking Social-Network Users

By Erica Naone | 05/06/2009 | 0 Comments

Researchers find a way to identify individuals in supposedly anonymous social-network data.

A Smarter Way to Dig Up Experts

By Erica Naone | 04/08/2009 | 0 Comments

Data-mining techniques could make it easier to locate expertise.

Can Video Games be the New MTV?

By Erica Naone | 04/03/2009 | 0 Comments

Selling songs via console games, the Web, and phones may help the ailing music industry.

Popularity Poll Ranks Startups

By Kristina Grifantini | 02/19/2009 | 0 Comments

Measuring online buzz could help investors, a company claims.

Can't We All Just Get Along?

By Erica Naone | 12/18/2008 | 1 Comment

Competing attempts to unite people's online social networks may end up sowing more division.

Making Money from Social Ties

By Erica Naone | 09/18/2008 | 1 Comment

Advertisers are building complex applications to try to engage users on social networks.

Turning Social Networks Against Users

By Erica Naone | 09/15/2008 | 1 Comment

Applications built on social networks may be the ideal way to distribute malicious code.

Social Networking Meets Personal Finance

By Kate Greene | 05/09/2008 | 1 Comment

Web-based startups offer social features that help people make better financial decisions.