All Annotations of apophenia: Attention Networks vs. Social Networks[Preview]

saved by4 people, first byKevin on 2006-07-31, last byCherice Montgomery on 2008-03-26

• Good thing Yahoo! 360 now supports both kinds of connections (directed and undirected.) :-)

  
  
  

  Undirected graphs are good for providing access to private data. Directed graphs are good for sharing public data.

• Hi Danah, interesting insight. I'm trying to connect your concept with how computer network works. Here, I consider Social Network as TCP which offers reliability (at the expense of speed) and Attention Network as UDP which offers speed at the expense of reliability (from the lack of acknowledgement/reciprocity). As a result, I think that Attention Network model is suitable for dynamic social software(like delicious) and Social Network model for more 'static' social software (like Friendster and LinkedIn).