From the category archives:

Social Networks

Hockey and Social Networks: The Importance of Team Members as Social Networks Assets in the NHL

by Jean-Francois Belisle on September 23, 2009

in Entertainment, Personal Branding, Social Networks

For the last few days, I worked hard on the modeling of networking interactions in viral contests and with the start of the National Hockey league (NHL) season on October 1st, I thought it would be a nice idea to share my vision of how a sport, in this case hockey, is importantly influenced by [...]

Tagged as: assets, Brian Burke, Brian Gionta, connections, Francois Allaire, Hockey, Jonas Gustavsson, NHL, Rickard Wallin, Scott Gomez, season, Social Networks

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Fighting for the Web Supremacy: How Will Google Wave Suffer From Switching Costs and Lock-in Against Facebook?

by Jean-Francois Belisle on August 14, 2009

in E-Marketing Trends, Social Media, Social Networks, Technology and Society

Facebook and Google are probably the two hottest companies that come to anyone’s mind when chit-chatting about the Internet. Thus, according to Quantcast statistics, Google is the website that is the most visited by Americans while Facebook comes fourth. However, when it comes to social networking (SNs) websites, anyone will tell you that Facebook is [...]

Tagged as: Facebook, features, First mover advantage, Google, Google Caffeine, Google Wave, Hal Varian, lock in, microblogging, Social Network, switching costs

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A Reply to Mashable – 5 Reasons Why the Cost of Education Will Not Be Zero in the Future

by Jean-Francois Belisle on July 30, 2009

in Academics, Social Networks, Technology and Society

A recent debate concerning the impact of technology on the cost of education took place on the Mashable blog (a blog I place in my Top 5 when it comes to social media information). In this intriguing article, the author argued that technology was driving the cost of education to zero, citing as examples the [...]

Tagged as: cost, debate, Education, free, information, mashable, Michael Spence, MIT open courseware, tuition fees, university of the people

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