[dundee] U.K. Government to monitor social networking sites

[Dan Bolser]

2009/3/25 gordon dunlop <astrozubenel at googlemail.com>:
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> 2009/3/25 Dan Bolser <dan.bolser at gmail.com>
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>> My friend worked on algorithms for discovering 'pathways' in abstract
>> protein-protein interaction networks. I suggested that he patent this
>> for intelligence gathering purposes, but he didn't see the point. I'm
>> really thinking to start a business to apply biologically motivated
>> analysis (PPI networks) to sites like Facebook.
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>> Now that's interesting, 3-D maps have been generated of genetic
>> polymorphic populations using principal co-ordinate vectors produced from a
>> Nei & Li similarity matrix representing genetic distance.
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>> http://jxb.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/51/353/2075?ck=nck
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>   By substituting genetic polymorphism with social polymorphism a social
> connection map could be produced. The only drawback
>   is to accurately define a social trait and class it accordingly like what
> can be done with genetic traits.

Some people on Facebook choose to fill in their hobbies... the hobbies
of others can be inferred by link association.

Lets draw the graph and sell out.


>   Gordon
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