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Social Networks Affecting Your Health
January 5, 2011 – 8:00 am | 6 Comments
Social Networks Affecting Your Health

My friend, Mark Hawker, hipped me to this amazing Nicholas Christakis TED talk called: The hidden influence of social networks that will be 18 minutes of your life well spent. I get that anybody who looks at Facebook’s latest valuation knows that social networks are “powerful.” But Nicholas Christakis dives into the individual’s network architecture [...]

On Facebook: Is health different?
April 26, 2010 – 11:04 am | 7 Comments
On Facebook: Is health different?

When Facebook announced its new Open Graph functionality at the F8 conference last week, the first thing we did at our office, obviously, was rush to Pandora to see what kind of music our coworkers were listening to that we could make fun of them for. (By now, most have heard of or experienced Facebook’s [...]