"This talk demonstrates how an eclectic blend of storage, analysis, and visualization techniques can be used to gain a lot of serious insight from Twitter data, but also to answer fun questions such as "What does Justin Bieber and the Tea Party have (and not have) in common?"--Resource description page.

"Developing a social network map is fundamental to comprehensively understanding a person. Social networks are dynamic and better derived from real-world data than static configurations. However, the vast majority of this real world data is unstructured. This presentation will show how Synthesys uses very large scale unstructured data to create social network maps for reporting and further analysis."--Resource description page.

"LinkedIn is the largest professional social network in the world and is used by millions of job seekers, employers, recruiters, and other professionals. How can we mine this data to gain deeper insights into our professional networks? Based on content from Matthew Russell's book "Mining the Social Web" (O'Reilly), this course shows you how to access and download LinkedIn data; as well as how to perform clustering analysis and geographic analysis,...

"Ruby on Rails has emerged as today's most powerful, useful Web development framework. RailsSpace Ruby on Rails Tutorial makes real-world Rails development easier than ever before. In fifteen targeted video sessions, Rails expert Aurelius Prochazka walks you through every step of building RailsSpace, a full-fledged social networking site. You'll learn at your own pace, as you move from a static page to a robust, highly dynamic site. You'll walk step-by-step...

"Using Facebook is more than just a book: It's the fastest, easiest way to make the most of Facebook! You won't just "read" about it: You'll see it, hear it, live it, with step-by-step video tutorials and valuable audio sidebars. Get comfortable with Facebook! It's all here, including finding and communicating with friends (old and new) ... controlling your privacy and visibility ... posting new messages, photos, video, and links ... using Chat and...

"Facebook is the world's largest social network, with over 750 million users, who install 20 million applications every day. If you want to interact with a large audience, Facebook is the place to be, and applications are one of the most engaging ways to interact with that audience. This workshop focuses on creating Facebook applications using HTML, JavaScript, PHP, and Flash. The workshop starts with basic applications and progresses to more complex...

"Most analytics systems rely on large offline computations, which means results take hours or days. Twitter is all about realtime, but with over 160 million users producing over 90 million tweets per day, we need realtime analytics that scale horizontally. This talk discusses the development of that infrastructure, as well as the products we are beginning to build on top of it."--Resource description page.

Reveals the complicated effects the web is having on our society as seen through the eyes of artist, futurist, and visionary, Josh Harris. Director Ondi Timoner documented more than a decade of Harris' increasingly tumultuous life and experiments, including one that involved living under 24-hour electronic surveillance, which led to his mental collapse.

When Mae is hired to work for the world's largest and most powerful tech and social media company, she sees it as an opportunity. As she rises through the ranks, she is encouraged by the company's founder, Eamon Bailey, to engage in a groundbreaking experiment that pushes the boundaries of privacy, ethics and ultimately her personal freedom. Her participation in the experiment, and every decision she makes begin to affect the lives and future of her...