"Do you use Facebook for social networking? With more than 800 million active users, chances are your friends and family do. It's the way that many people today communicate and share with others. If you're just getting started with Facebook, it may seem a bit daunting or confusing--but it doesn't have to be. All you need to know is how to navigate the site, how to make Facebook friends, and how to keep in touch with those friends. In other words,...

"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...

"Learn all the basics of Instagram as well as hidden tips and tricks to produce better photos and videos to share with your friends, family and followers! Exploring Instagram's Hidden Secrets video shows you how to use an established mobile app and shoot and share digital photographs and short videos with friends, family and followers. Impress people with your ability to apply filters and special effects to your photos! Share your photos and videos...

"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.

When Saturday detention started at Shermer High School, they were simply the Jock, the Princess, the Brain, the Criminal and the Basket Case, but by that afternoon they had become closer than any of them could have imagined.

"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...

A uniquely funny and moving story about Greg, a high school senior who avoids deep human relationships as a way to safely navigate the social mine field that is teenage life. In fact, he describes his best friend Earl, with whom he makes short-film parodies of classic movies, as being 'more like a co-worker'. But when Greg's mom insists he spends time with Rachel, a girl in his class who has just been diagnosed with cancer, Greg discovers just how...

A primer for social network analysis using Python's NetworkX graph analysis library.

A Beirut beauty salon becomes a treasured meeting place for several generations of women who meet there daily. The women come from various walks of life, to talk, seek advice and confide in one another. Each has their own quirks and problems that they must deal with.