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Larry Page: Google should be like a family – Fortune Tech I don’t think it’s any of those individual things. It’s important that the company be a family, that people feel that they’re part of the company, and that the company is like a family to them. When you treat people that way, you get better productivity. Rather than really ...

(1) Rethinking Information Diversity in Networks People are more likely to share information from their strong ties, but because of their abundance, weak ties are primarily responsible for the majority of information spread on Facebook. The figure above illustrates how a majority of influence (orange) can be generated by weak ties, even if strong ties are individually more influential. tags: ...

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This was the original test from the now revised “Why Our Software Needs Social Context” An Idea for Filtering and Signaling Social Context Imagine your phone had a simple slider bar that allowed you to filter your incoming stream of information in real time. Slide the control up to the top to maximum “relationship-mode,” and you get the full spectrum ...

Tracking 18th-century “social network” through letters – YouTube Researchers map thousands of letters exchanged in the 18th century’s “Republic of Letters” and learn at a glance what it once took a lifetime of study to comprehend. tags: networks Articles AOC Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

Corporation 20/20 – Designing for Social Purpose What is the core purpose of the corporation? How should it be designed to seamlessly blend sustainability  into its design, ownership, governance, strategy and practices? Corporation 20/20 is an international, multi-stakeholder initiative that seeks to answer these questions. Its goal is to develop and disseminate a vision, pathway for the 21st century corporation in which social purpose ...

What is HTML5, and why it will save the web from itself HTML5 is designed to fix all those problems in one grand transition to a massively overhauled version of the web’s most popular language: HTML. The new version makes media — especially video — into a first class citizen, allowing it to be streamed natively without fiddling with plug-ins or rifling ...

The Zombie map of the world | News | guardian.co.uk What happens when you ask Google Maps for the location of zombies around the world? I’ve always seen our fascination with zombies as a kind of metaphor for feelings of alienation – you know the kind that tend to come with the trappings of modern life. That’s why I found ...

Small-Town Gossip Moves to the Web, Anonymous and Vicious – NYTimes.com The same Web sites created as places for candid talk about local news and politics are also hubs of unsubstantiated gossip, stirring widespread resentment in communities where ties run deep, memories run long and anonymity is something of a novel concept. A generation ago, even after technology had advanced, ...

Science in a Complex World: In touch with our inner hero – The Santa Fe New Mexican In addition, we modeled mathematically what happens to groups over many generations. Our results lined up remarkably well with the data we gathered. Groups exhibiting two co-existing traits seemed to prevail and persist throughout history: cooperation within groups and a willingness to collaborate ...