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Social Networks and Power

in Duncan Watts, Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison

Here’s an interesting article about the social-network modeling of Duncan Watts, a researcher for Yahoo! who contests the popular marketing idea that influencing so-called Influentials is the key to making your idea or product go viral. I first heard about him at a CSN conference last year; he had just published research suggesting that the […]

Social Networks and Power

in Duncan Watts, Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison

Here’s an interesting article about the social-network modeling of Duncan Watts, a researcher for Yahoo! who contests the popular marketing idea that influencing so-called Influentials is the key to making your idea or product go viral. I first heard about him at a CSN conference last year; he had just published research suggesting that the […]