Clustered Networks Spread Behavior Change Faster
Unlike infectious diseases and news, behavior change spreads faster through online networks that have many close connections instead of many distant…
3 dimensions for individuals in the networked age
The networked information economy improves the practical capacities of individuals along three dimensions: (1) it improves their capacity to do more…
This startup says it can find the algorithm that defines your data
A startup called Emerald Logic claims it uses an evolutionary process to discover the best algorithm for predicting outcomes from any dataset. It…
The Emerging Science of Superspreaders (And How to Tell If You're One Of Them)
Nobody has figured out how to spot the most influential spreaders of information in a real-world network. Now that looks set to change with important…
Distributed Innovation and Creativity, Peer Production, and Commons in Networked Economy
Imagine that in late 1995 someone told you that two groups of engineers were developing a critical piece of web infrastructure—the web server…
Forget the social graph: pay attention to the work graph
A work graph consists of the units of work (tasks, ideas, clients, goals, agenda items); information about that work (relevant conversations, files,…