Comments on: Social network analysis in Facebook http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/06/27/social-network-analysis-in-facebook/ Strategies for Internet citizens Sun, 12 Feb 2012 18:22:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: raghavsethi http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/06/27/social-network-analysis-in-facebook/#comment-132138 Tue, 16 Feb 2010 07:29:07 +0000 http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/06/27/social-network-analysis-in-facebook/#comment-132138 Hi,

I’m a student of IIIT Delhi and I’m doing research on how geographic distance affects communication on Facebook.

I’m writing an app to automate data collection and I would be extremely grateful if you could let me have a look at your code so I can figure out how to make it work for me.
Regards,
Raghav Sethi

]]> By: osman http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/06/27/social-network-analysis-in-facebook/#comment-130556 Sun, 25 Oct 2009 09:00:40 +0000 http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/06/27/social-network-analysis-in-facebook/#comment-130556 Hi,

I am wondering about one thing on Facebook. From time to time, it comes to my attention that a friend of mine and another friend of mine know each other, which i didn’t know before. Then i go and ask to one of them, how do you know the other guy?

Is there a way or application to find things like this?

]]> By: Valdis Krebs http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/06/27/social-network-analysis-in-facebook/#comment-125647 Mon, 20 Oct 2008 19:27:51 +0000 http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/06/27/social-network-analysis-in-facebook/#comment-125647 Does Facebook allow you to do “snowball sampling” — i.e start with your node and then get friends, FOAFs, etc.? LinkedIn allows you to get all of your friends, but not FOAFs. Without knowing how your friends are connected, and who your FOAFs are and how they are connected, it is hard to read much into your social graph.

Here is a quick social graph I did from my RYZE data [remember them???] when they allowed access to FOAFs…

http://orgnet.com/PersonalNetwork.gif

]]> By: Nodalities » Blog Archive » Some follow-up Platform thoughts http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/06/27/social-network-analysis-in-facebook/#comment-123134 Thu, 17 Apr 2008 17:03:40 +0000 http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/06/27/social-network-analysis-in-facebook/#comment-123134 [...] also has some valuable links out to relevant commentary from Marc Andreesen, Jon Udell (did I mention that he’s accepted my invitation to join our new Advisory Group?) and [...]

]]> By: jim collins http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/06/27/social-network-analysis-in-facebook/#comment-41223 Wed, 18 Jul 2007 18:59:18 +0000 http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/06/27/social-network-analysis-in-facebook/#comment-41223 “And especially for an application like this one, which intentionally crosses cultural boundaries, you’d have to be prepared to run on any client OS.”
Adobe AIR (http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/air/) would do nicely. Works great with Pownce.

]]> By: paul walk’s weblog » Blog Archive » Playing in the sandpit, while the novelty lasts http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/06/27/social-network-analysis-in-facebook/#comment-36130 Tue, 03 Jul 2007 15:55:12 +0000 http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/06/27/social-network-analysis-in-facebook/#comment-36130 [...] were exposed to the web, ‘mine-able’ and mashable – now that would be exciting. But as Jon Udell points out, that would be risky and with “no obvious benefit to [...]

]]> By: Facebook News - Week of 6/29/2007 | NathenGrass.com http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/06/27/social-network-analysis-in-facebook/#comment-34890 Fri, 29 Jun 2007 22:47:12 +0000 http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/06/27/social-network-analysis-in-facebook/#comment-34890 [...] Social network analysis in Facebook [...]

]]> By: Jon Udell http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/06/27/social-network-analysis-in-facebook/#comment-34610 Thu, 28 Jun 2007 19:48:04 +0000 http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/06/27/social-network-analysis-in-facebook/#comment-34610 “looking at the documentation if there aren’t multiple affiliation elements under the affiliations element, it’s a bug. Check your code?”

Turns out to be a PyFacebook problem. The JSON rendering works properly, but the XML rendering truncates. I reported it.

]]> By: Jon Udell http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/06/27/social-network-analysis-in-facebook/#comment-34585 Thu, 28 Jun 2007 16:27:50 +0000 http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/06/27/social-network-analysis-in-facebook/#comment-34585 > http://www.danah.org/papers/essays/ClassDivisions.html

Yes, I saw that. It’s one of the things that’s got me thinking (again) about pulling data directly out of these networks in order to see what’s going on.

]]> By: Eoin http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/06/27/social-network-analysis-in-facebook/#comment-34574 Thu, 28 Jun 2007 15:17:50 +0000 http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/06/27/social-network-analysis-in-facebook/#comment-34574 As a bit of background to some of the trends being seen in Facebook on an even broader term of reference (and from more of a sociological rather than programatical viewpoint) you may be interested to read…
“Viewing American class divisions through Facebook and MySpace” an essay written by Danah Boyd.
http://www.danah.org/papers/essays/ClassDivisions.html

]]> By: michael greene http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/06/27/social-network-analysis-in-facebook/#comment-34547 Thu, 28 Jun 2007 13:06:39 +0000 http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/06/27/social-network-analysis-in-facebook/#comment-34547 I have long wanted to do this, and have written an application that could technically do it. However, it would be against the terms of the Facebook API:

facebook.friends.get
Returns the identifiers of the current user’s Facebook friends. The current user is determined from the session_key parameter. **The values returned from this call are not storable.** (emphasis added)

I haven’t done any work with affiliations, but looking at the documentation if there aren’t multiple affiliation elements under the affiliations element, it’s a bug. Check your code?

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