Yet another nail in privacy's coffin. Who ELSE do you know ? http://www.consciousape.com/news/google-bankrolled-by-the-cia/ http://english.pravda.ru/world/asia/14-01-2010/111657-google_china-0/
On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 2:26 AM, Jochen Fromm <j...@cas-group.net> wrote: > Is anyone on Google+ already? I think it is definitely a step in the right > direction. > The circle concept is interesting. Apparently people are indeed members in > multiple groups, for example you might > be in the FRIAM group, but also in other > groups, like the Stanford Alumni Association > or the parrot breeder group of Valley Springs in South Dakota, for example. > > The basic element in a social network > is a link from one node to another, such as friendship, relationship, > membership, kinship or following. The "circle of friends" or "circle of > trust" seems to be the place where a link from an individual intersects with > a group. > Similar to a coupling constant in QFT: > if someone has many acquaintances in a group and a large circle of friends, > he has a "strong coupling" with it, if he knows only a few and his circle of > friends is small, the coupling is weak, too. > > -J. > >
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