Tag: social networks

Computers Can't Answer Everything

By Erica Naone | 11/19/2009 | 8 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.

The Evolution of Retweeting

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

Formalizing the retweet may change people's behavior.

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.

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.

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.

Smart Badges Track Human Behavior

By Kate Greene | 01/30/2008 | 2 Comments

MIT researchers used conference badges to collect data on people's interactions and visualize the social network.

Mapping Professional Networks

By Erica Naone | 12/28/2007 | 1 Comment

IBM's Atlas tool aims to help businesses visualize connections between colleagues.

Circumventing Censorship

By Erica Naone | 12/19/2007 | 0 Comments

The Psiphon network frustrates censors by using trusted friends.

Twitter and Ambient Intimacy

By Jason Pontin | 11/15/2007 | 2 Comments

How Evan Williams helped create the new social medium of microblogging.

Searching for Humans

By Erica Naone | 08/20/2007 | 1 Comment

Various websites are trying to make it easier to find friends and colleagues online.

Social Networking for Dogs

By Clark Boyd | 05/03/2007 | 2 Comments

Now, owners can meet each other by swapping information between chips mounted on Fido's collar.

Is Twitter Here to Stay?

By Wade Roush | 04/06/2007 | 3 Comments

A new online messaging tool is hot, but it may be too banal to last.

Build Your Own Social Network

By Wade Roush | 03/09/2007 | 4 Comments

Ning, a new Web service, lets users become the CEOs of their own mini-MySpaces.