Dynamic Social Network Modeling and Analysis: Workshop Summary and Papers

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Summary: apply these ideas in social networking companies?
Review: Social networking analysis has become quite hot in recent years. Driven by the Internet, and how the increasing pervasiveness of electronic communication can be used. This compendium of workshop papers gives a good flavour of current academic work in this field.

Potential readers should not be restricted to those in academia. Several social networking companies have started up recently, like Friendster, Ryze and Tribe.net. If you are in such a company and are involved in trying to add more value to your company's abilities, you should slowly and carefully go over this book. There may be germane ideas that you can implement. Though one cautionary note is that in this field there is very little patent protection. Any ideas described in the book have now been made public, precluding any patents on them. Unless you can find some unique twist to make it so.