Wednesday, May 1, 2002

Visualizing Googlespace I've received a number of interesting responses to my current BYTE.com column on the Google API. Nelson Minar, former Popular Power CTO who's now with Google, wrote to point out that since HTML doctitles are of uncertain quality, the snippets (relevant text chunks) returned by the Google API might form an interesting search space. When I tried that, though, the results didn't seem to diverge enough. The name of the game, in this kind of surfing, is to chart a course through googlespace that diverges enough to turn up interesting new connections, but not so much as to end up off in the weeds. [Jon's Radio] 8:40:03 AM     Valdis Krebs on knowledge networks. Valdis Krebs wrote to point out that the industry map I linked to is just a demo, and that he provides more robust visualizations to his clients. In a fascinating paper called Managing the Connected Organization, he writes about the application of social network analysis to corporate culture. Elsewhere, he describes a method for identifying subject-matter experts based on email queries. Writes Krebs: [Jon's Radio] 7:20:05 AM

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