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"Despite its hapahazard growth, the Web hides powerful underlying regularities - from the organization of its links to the patterns found in its use by millions of users. Many of these regularities have been predicted on the basis of theroretical models based on a field of physics- - statistical mechanics - that few would have thought applicable to the World Wide Web. In this book the author explains in accessible language the laws of the web, that...
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The second edition of this book combines updated chapters from the first edition with completely new chapters on the latest developments and controversies in cyberspace. Readers will find suggestions for ways in which the Web can be used to further their own research, as well as lists of useful websites.
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The Information Revolution presents the complete history of the World Wide Web - from its original design and engineering as an information management system at CERN to its introduction onto the Internet and its rapid acceptance as a de facto standard for publishing information on the Internet to its role in transforming the Internet into a resource that virtually anyone can use. The Web's history is followed by a detailed explanation of how the Web's...
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Explores how people are using new methods of social computing to simplify the ways they locate others who share their interests and kindle face-to-face communication. Through a series of case studies and interviews with leading thinkers and doers in this rapidly evolving field, Christian Crumlish illustrates how we use peer-to-peer technologies--web services, blogs, mobile phone SMS, and more--to accomplish widespread goals.
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"Over the past decade there has been a growing public fascination with the complex connectedness of modern society. This connectedness is found in many incarnations: in the rapid growth of the Internet, in the ease with which global communication takes place, and in the ability of news and information as well as epidemics and financial crises to spread with surprising speed and intensity. These are phenomena that involve networks, incentives, and...
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