Layer 8 Signals - Characterising Social / Expertise Networks
Check out Jon Udell's article on Valdis Krebs. The visualization and analysis of social/expertise networks - fascinating stuff
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/webservices/2002/06/04/udell.html
I wonder what all these peer-to-peer people interactions in Groove are telling us? If we could afford a Groove management server maybe we could get the raw data to do some serious data mining. The human layer - OSI Layer 8 as we heard it called last week in a JXTA-context - is inscribing itself deeply into the network ...
When us Mysterians formed the core engine of the then-excellent ISP Madasafish, we used to wonder about the massive amount of data furnished by our knowledge of both ends of the vast river of tcp connections generated by our users. In Web site logs a user's traversal through a single site (say Amazon) is known to Amazon in deep detail. But they don't know much else about what where else you've been that day ... true they have some scanty info about referrers ...
The access service providers on the other hand know *everything*. Not many of them mine the information which I always found wierd ... I guess too many other things to do, plus all the privacy issues too daunting. Now in the peer-to-peer and email world not only are our interactions with content accessible and recorded, so are our interactions with each other ... I knew these Sendmail logs were full of meaning!! And now Groove logs too.
I just got to figure out how I actually get the 'social network' analysis software from the fascinating Valdis Krebs
2:40:05 PM 
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