The Social Networking Weblog

Dictatorships are not the only ties being dissolved by social networking sites: Facebook is increasingly being blamed for undermining American marriages. Four out of five lawyers reported an increasin…

If you are like most people who attend to their Facebook and Twitter everyday, you might find yourself a little too addicted to the site. It might seem a little pointless apart from connecting and gos…

ResearchGATE, which has been one of the most popular social networking sites for scientists and researchers all over the world has made a huge announcement that will help encourage future funding for …

A poll done in the U.K. found that around 31% of people who use social networking sites in the U.K. enter false information about themselves into their profile. This is because twice as many social ne…

Wallop was recently spun out on its own. If I was a blog search engine or social networking site, I'd be concerned with what they have up their sleeves.

Matthew Hurst of Intelliseek is paying at…

The map to the left is a graph of a social network of mayors:

We are seeing more and more interest in "regional economies" all over the world. One of the key players in regional economics …

Noah Kagan has an interesting post about a new Linkedin feature. Linkedin has implemented a rating system which gives each user a rating based on how complete their profile is. My profile is 45% compl…

Want to learn how to analyze the structures of social networks? If yo do, here's some seminars. From Patti Anklam:
Given all the interest in SNA lately, it seems like a good time to provide more …

Matthew Hurst has some data debunking the concept that the A-list of bloggers uncover the newest things first:
I do believe, however, that there is steadily increasing delay in ideas getting picked …

Matthew Hurst, Director of Research at Intelliskeek, shares a bit of the extremely powerful relationship analysis tools that Intelliseek has developed:
Upon examining the clusters, one can observe cl…