Networks in the News

“OKComrade , a new dating platform which launched on May 4, bills itself as a leftist alternative to “bourgeois” dating sites like OKCupid — a way for socialists, communists and anarchists to connect with like-minded revolution...

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Scarborough consumer data suggests that the way you use the Internet reflects your political preference and likelihood of voting. Their chart shows some interesting patterns: people tracking sports and financial information are more likely to vote Republican; people listening to music or looking for a job are more likely to [...]

On Thursday, the FCC approved the proposal with a 3-2 vote, opening a period of 120 days of public comments in which anyone, from stakeholders like broadband providers and net neutrality advocates to the average netizen, can weigh in and propose changes to the document. After this period, the FCC [...]

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http://www.psfk.com/2014/05/applebees-private-chat-app.html#!M99ND A new app was released that allows anyone inside an Applebee’s restaurant to anonymously chat with one another. “The app itself may seem a little ridiculous, but it points to the very real possibility of restaurants – or any establishment, for that matter – creating their own location-based social networks, [...]

The robust defenses that yeast cells have evolved to protect themselves from environmental threats hold lessons that can be used to design computer networks and analyze how secure they are, say computer scientists at Carnegie Mellon University. Read Mo...

General Stanley McChrystal makes a case for sharing knowledge beyond the traditional need-to-know model and talks about the benefits of information dissemination. In his explanation of the significant culture shift from “who needs to know” to “who doesn’t know, and we need to tell, and tell them as quickly as [...]

In the wake of the Arab Spring, the US sponsers social media to secure democratic change. http://thinkprogress.org/world/2014/04/28/3431430/foreign-social-networks/

http://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/social-networking-technology-unlocks-mystery-chimp-civil-war-n103206 Notes of the Chimpanzees were taken over a four year period. The alpha male had died and some of the chimps followed a male named Humphrey, in the North. Others followed two brothers, Hugh and Charlie, in the South. One of the software pieces that helped figure out the [...]