Wired News: Social Nets Not Making Friends
Perhaps it was inevitable. A backlash is under way against social networking services like Friendster, as more and more companies crowd to join the latest hot Internet trend.
Sick of invitations to join networking services, and the constant nagging to validate friends or acquaintances, some people are turning against the ever-growing social networking services.
Why do we share with each other? Is it some biological imperative that underlies culture? According to the work of Jeffrey Stevens, it's so we don't have to deal with our peers hassling us to get a slice of the pie
Grim - en interaktiv lärmiljö med fokus på det svenska språket, Nada, KTH
Vetenskapsradion: Språket 13/1 Språkmanipulation och språkkontroll
Steven Johnson: Amazon.com: Books: Mind Wide Open : Your Brain and the Neuroscience of Everyday Life
JungleScan.com is a free service that
* Scans products on Amazon.com to record their sales ranking over time
* Allows you to start or participate in discussions about any website or Amazon.com item
ABCNEWS.com : Finding the 'Buy Button':
Is Neuromarketing Research Giving Advertisers the Keys to Your Decision-Making?
Nature:
An equation for attraction: People rate shapeliness based on a girl's ratio of volume to height.:
Some people say it's long legs that count, others say it's the bits on top.
But according to a Hong Kong study, the best way to judge a woman's attractiveness is to take her volume in cubic metres and divide it by the square of her height. The researchers call the figure her volume-height index, or VHI.
PC Magazine: Make Contact :
The sites we review here are similar in concept but different in implementation. LinkedIn and Ryze focus on building professional relationships as well as helping you find a new job, hire new employees, hunt down new business partners, or seek professional advice. Others, like Friendster and Friendzy, are more geared toward after-hours relationships. They're great for finding a date or a new group of friends. Tribe.net has a feature that lets members come together in discussion groups, or Tribes.
O'Reilly Network: NetLogo 2.0: Graphs, and Nodes, and Edges Oh My!.
Se även Agentbaserad modellering.
Amazon.com: Books: Why Not? How to Use Everyday Ingenuity to Solve Problems Big and Small
Via E M E R G I C.org.
locative media lab blog: MAP MONGERS:
The map mongers are a group of people dedicated to the encouragement of all things map-like in the Netherlands, organising informal gatherings of those interested in maps and mapping, urban space, GPS, locative media, [social] networks, psychogeography and what have you.
StudyGroup (Wiki) for the moment consists of the book Conceptual Mathematics: A first introduction to categories by F. William Lawvere and Stephen Hoel Schanuel
Via Lambda the Ultimate.
Woody Allen: When the universe is expanding it can make you late for work.
Via nasty scholar.
Chance 12.06: Dec. 1 to Jan. 5 2004 (PDF)
Welcome to the Smalltalk Free Books
Amazon.com Recommendations: Item-to-Item Collaborative Filtering
SSRN-Gore, Gibson, and Goldsmith: The Evolution of Internet Metaphors in Law and Commentary by I. Glenn Cohen, Jonathan Blavin.
(via Kairosnews - A Weblog for Discussing Rhetoric, Technology and Pedagogy)