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augusti 04, 2003
Six degrees of exploitation?
I dagens Wall Street Journal ska det finnas en artikel Six degrees of exploitation? som handlar om följande (summering från Corante.
Discusses new software programs being developed to help companies mine, analyze and use the professional relationships of their employees. "The programs scan workers' contacts from their computerized address books, instant-message buddy lists, electronic calendars and e-mail correspondence [and] then make maps of all the relationships they find among the employees and all their contacts," says the Wall Street Journal. The goal: "to identify people within the company who have potentially useful contacts elsewhere and could make a personal introduction, say, linking a salesperson with a potential customer, an attorney with a prospective client or a fund-raiser with likely donors." Two companies selling such services: Visible Path and Spoke Software.
Man länkar till Wall Street Journal-artikeln här, men det är endast för prenumeranter, och en sådan är jag inte.
Är det någon som läst artikeln och kan referera mer?
Länkar till de två företagen som nämns sist i summeringen: Visible Path, Spoke Software.
Efter lite letande hittade jag en annan artikel om dessa två företag New breed of software maps our interconnections .
Förutom en hel del hype finns det kritiska röster:
Consultants like Krebs also wonder whether such software is truly able to detect nuances in people's relationships or prompt them to share valuable resources with someone they don't know well.
"Like crooks keep two sets of books, I think people are going to keep two sets of Outlook files," Krebs said of the popular e-mai.
Valdis Krebs forskar själv inom social network analysis och finns att beläsa på www.orgnet.com. Även Bernardo A. Huberman (hp information dynamics) nämns i artikeln.
Posted by hakank at augusti 4, 2003 07:35 EM Posted to Social Network Analysis/Complex Networks