Tuesday, 19 August 2003
Online Communities, Microsoft Research and NetScan
CNet News.com interviews Microsoft Research's Marc Smith:
In Microsoft's research and development labs, Smith has spent the past several years slicing and dicing data about messages and message authors in an ambitious effort to help people make sense of the newsgroup manifold--the hordes of know-it-alls, flame warriors, spammers and neophytes who, by Smith's estimate, last year numbered more than 100 million in the Usenet network of e-mail threads, or newsgroups. [more, CNet News.com]
Related:
- Microsft Netscan (amazing, wanted to do something like this for the prototype I worked on)
- About Netscan
- Microsoft Research
- Marc Smith
- MSR Collaborative and Multimedia Systems Group
- Microsoft Watch: Redmond's Scanning the Net
- SiliconValley.internet.com: Microsoft Tools Separate Friends and Flamers
- Infoworld: Microsoft Research preps Usenet analysis tool
- Communities in Cyberspace: Kollock and [Marc] Smith
- Communities in Cyberspace [Amazon]
- MSR Aura: [the study of] emergent individual and group behaviors associated with the ability to digital tag objects and places.
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