Social consensus through the influence of committed minorities: We show how the prevailing majority opinion in a population can be rapidly reversed by a small fraction
p of randomly distributed
committed agents who consistently proselytize the opposing opinion and are immune to influence. Specifically, we show that when the committed fraction grows beyond a critical value
pc ≈ 10%, there is a dramatic decrease in the time,
Tc, taken for the entire population to adopt the committed opinion.
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posted by troll
on Jul 26, 2011 -
56 comments
The best social network you've (probably) never heard of is one-five-hundredth the size of Facebook. It has no video chat feature, it doesn't let you check in to your favorite restaurant, and there are no games. The company that runs it has just four employees, one of whom is responsible for programming the entire operation. It has never taken any venture capital money and has no plans to go public. Despite these apparent shortcomings, the site's members absolutely adore it. They consider it a key part of their social lives, and they use it to forge deeper connections with strangers—and share more about themselves—than you're likely to see elsewhere online.
Why
Ravelry is such a great community and social network.
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posted by Foci for Analysis
on Jul 7, 2011 -
109 comments
"Can Facebook defeat terrorism?" wonders
Matt Armstrong. A
conference of both web and social entrepreneurs, policy wonks, and activists will convene to create a how-to guide for changing the world through social networking tools. Jared
"Children of Jihad" Cohen was a driving force behind the initiative. We've seen social networking
impact an election, while others are already trying
to change the world with it. This conference, while exciting and important, raises a few questions. Just look at the list who's convening it:
"Facebook, Google, YouTube, MTV, Howcast, Columbia Law School and the U.S. Department of State Convene the Alliance of Youth Movements Summit." [more inside]
posted by cal71
on Nov 20, 2008 -
27 comments
NoSo [embedded audio] is the next stop on the self-referential satire train of Web 2.0.* Going beyond
Useless Account, inspired (kinda) by Flash Mobs, Fight Club ("the first rule..."), and MeFi Meetups, it allows anonymous users the opportunity to organize "NOevents" where members can congregate in selected physical locations
without using their technological connectivity devices and
NOT engage in communication with each other. That's right, no talking allowed at a NOevent. Reading books is OK. You may go home and blog about it, but NO live blogging. Organized by
a San Franciso art group that
may just be using it to get people to show up at their installations (aha!), and who violate the Fight Club rule
in an interview with R.U. Sirius.
(viablame TechCrunch) *Plagiarized with attribution from bhouston.
posted by wendell
on Aug 27, 2007 -
11 comments
flickrgraph Dynamic visualization of flickr contact networks [java, flash, assorted technical jiggery-pokery]
posted by carter
on Feb 12, 2005 -
8 comments
Google (kinda) Offers Social Networking called Orkut Acording to this
CNET artice, Orkut is the outgrowth of a personal project by Google Engineers Orkut Buyukkokten. He created "Orkut.com in the past several months by working on it about one day a week--an amount that Google asks all of its engineers to devote to personal projects".
And oh, by the way:
"
Membership to orkut is by invitation only.
If you have a friend who's a member of orkut, have them invite you to join."
posted by Steve_at_Linnwood
on Jan 23, 2004 -
32 comments
Buddyzoo is an interesting new site that lets you see which buddies on your AIM buddy list your buddies share with you. Sort of like a six degrees of seperation kind of thing. Very neat. Go
check it out and sign up! And tell your friends!
posted by aznblader
on Apr 15, 2003 -
13 comments
