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3 unusual facts about social network


American Association of Family and Consumer Sciences

The association currently acts as a professional network primarily for professors and teachers of home economics and related courses, but also includes large numbers from government, business and non-profit organizations.

Social network

Randomly distributed networks: Exponential random graph models of social networks became state-of-the-art methods of social network analysis in the 1980s.

Thewittyshit.com

Thewittyshit.com is an India-based creative networking venture and crowdsourcing portal that caters to networking people based on their creativity.


BART Police

Eyewitnesses gathered direct evidence of the shooting with cellular video cameras which were later submitted to social networks such as YouTube in addition to media outlets.

Children Beyond Our Borders

E-mentors form relationships with students and assist in their career development, self-esteem building, character development, and financial independence via a social network, with which they will communicate weekly.

Chris Gulker

Gulker, anticipating the work of Jorn Barger, was the first to propose a network of bloggers and pioneered two of the most effective means through which blogging emerged as a social medium, the blogroll and link attribution.

Game Connect

Game Connect: Asia Pacific (GCAP) is Australia’s annual game development conference and networking event for the Asia Pacific Games Industry and is administered by the Game Developers’ Association of Australia.

Joline Blais

With Jon Ippolito in 2002, she co-founded Still Water, a new media lab she continues to co-direct that is devoted to studying and building creative networks.

Ma3bar

#Capacity building by providing the necessary training and assistance in developing the necessary skills and competences in the public and the private sectors, as well as in non-government organizations, and encouraging the inclusion of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) courses as part of the standard course offerings in universities as well as networking the various FOSS communities that exist in the Arab Region.

Names Database

The Names Database is a partially defunct social network, owned and operated by Classmates.com, a wholly owned subsidiary of United Online.

Nintendo Network

Miiverse (portmanteau of "Mii" and "Universe") is a communication system or social network for Wii U and Nintendo 3DS created by Nintendo Network Business & Development (NBD) and Hatena and powered by the Nintendo Network, which allows players to interact and share their experiences through their own Miis.

OrSiSo

The OrSiSo application runs on Adobe AIR, and connects to several social networks including Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Bebo and Flickr as well as Yahoo!, AIM, ICQ and MSN chats.

Riviera Partners

Riviera Partners' clientele includes, among others, ServiceNow, Xoom, One Kings Lane, Uber, Path, Okta, Pure Storage, Twitter, LinkedIn, Dropbox, Pinterest, and Zappos.

Trueanthem

Leveraging the viral nature of information distribution on the Internet, music and video content is released for download via the company’s proprietary trueWidget, which fans can grab and post to social network platforms or other websites.

Virtual community

Indeed, in his revised version of Virtual Community, Rheingold goes so far to say that had he read Barry Wellman's work earlier, he would have called his book "online social networks".

Vladimir Batagelj

Wouter de Nooy, Andrej Mrvar, Vladimir Batagelj, Mark Granovetter (Series Editor), Exploratory Social Network Analysis with Pajek (Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences), Cambridge University Press 2005 (ISBN 0-521-60262-9).


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Dan Serfaty

He is best known as the co-founder and CEO of the professional social network Viadeo.

Dave Hanley

Dave was the second employee at book social network Shelfari, where he oversaw its marketing and sales functions.

Eisteddfod

The 2011 West Coast Eisteddfod: Welsh Festival of Arts in Los Angeles was sponsored by the Meriwether Lewis Memorial Eisteddfod Foundation in association with AmeriCymru, Welsh American social network, and A Raven Above Press, Welsh-American owned and operated small press.

Filip Maertens

After leaving Ernst & Young, he lived abroad as a contractor in the security and intelligence community, where he further specialised in cryptography, social network analysis, A5/1/OTA and mobile security.

Gernatt Family of Companies

The Gernatt Family of Companies can also be found on the worldwide, professional social network, LinkedIn, under Gernatt Asphalt Products, Inc.

Legends of Future Past

Jon Radoff, the developer of the game, created a gaming social network called GamerDNA and has started a social gaming company Disruptor Beam which holds the license to Game of Thrones.

Marshall Herskovitz

In 2007 Herskovitz ventured into the world of broadband production with the original series Quarterlife, which debuted on MySpace and a dedicated social network also called "quarterlife".

National Film Festival for Talented Youth

Once again Nike sponsored a 48-hour student filmmaking competition, and the keynote panel, moderated by Nicholas de Wolff, featured "Social Network" Producer Dana Brunetti, Web series pioneer Hayden Black, Studio marketing leader Valerie van Galder, Microsoft head of Global Community Affairs Tim Dubel, and documentary filmmaker Stan Emert.

Online identity

Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google, has stated that the Google+ social network is intended to be exactly such an identity system.

RockLive

RockLive is the venture-funded mobile development lab behind the social network, Shots of Me.

Seapunk

The popular Sega Genesis character Ecco the Dolphin is viewed as one of the many '90s pop culture influences on the style based movement as seen in its re-aggregation on popular social network sites like Tumblr or Facebook.

Social network analysis

Scholars such as Ronald Burt, Kathleen Carley, Mark Granovetter, David Krackhardt, Edward Laumann, Anatol Rapoport, Barry Wellman, Douglas R. White, and Harrison White expanded the use of systematic social network analysis.

Social network analysis software

Christakis, Nicholas and James H. Fowler "The Spread of Obesity in a Large Social Network Over 32 Years," New England Journal of Medicine 357 (4): 370-379 (26 July 2007)

The D'oh-cial Network

Actor Armie Hammer portrayed the twins in both The Social Network and "The D'oh-cial Network".

Total Music

Total Music was then conceived as a streaming service to be incorporated into social networking sites—particularly Facebook—in a model similar to what was already in place through agreements between the record companies and MySpace: in exchange for user data and advertising revenue, Total Music would grant the social network a license to use the participating labels' music.

Wii U system software

The Wii U Menu may also be used to launch applications entirely beyond just gaming: the Miiverse social network which is integrated with all games and applications; the Internet Browser for the World Wide Web; play media through Netflix, Hulu, YouTube, Nintendo TVii, and more; download Wii U software and content through the Nintendo eShop; and receive official notifications from Nintendo.

William Blackmore

William Henry Blackmore (1827–1878), English lawyer who gained a fortune by exploiting a large social network as an investment promoter

Yoshikazu Tanaka

Tanaka was able to set his social network apart from the well established Japanese brands Mixi and DeNA by concentrating on mobile games and making partnerships with major Internet Service Providers.