[Air-l] social network/ing

[Ben Spigel]

There has been some work towards social network analysis built into
social networking software. With the new facebook API, there's a
plugin called 'Friend Wheel' that makes a circle graph of all of your
facebook friends. It's not the most detailed thing in the world, it
doesn't report any statistics, but it gives a good look at different
networks and cliques within your own friendship circles.

For example, my wheel can be found at
http://www.crashthatch.com/facebook/friendwheel/showwheelgif.php?userid=28120199.

Still a long way to go, though.

Ben Spigel
Graduate Student
Department of Geography
The Ohio State University

On 7/8/07, Barry Wellman <wellman at chass.utoronto.ca> wrote:
> Malene has done a useful service with her 35 types of social networkING
> SOFTWARE perspective.
>
> Not her fault, but I do think it is important to keep social networking
> software distinct from the pretty different (and older) tradition of
> social network analysis (and theory), etc. (See the first chapter in
> Wellman-Berkowitz __Social Structures_ and Linton Freeman's newish book
> for a history of SNA.
>
> Actually, I wish the social networking folks would build better tools that
> use social network analysis, but so far, there has been little action.
>
>  Barry Wellman
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