SIGSNA is a research project partially funded by Telecom Italia. TI is running a project called Working Capital aimed at findings and supporting new and interesting idea not only directly linked to business opportunity. This is an interesting opportunity in Italian scenario where research funds from private companies are quite rare.
Yesterday Telecom Italia’s blog about the Working Capital project posted the first part of a long interview with Matteo. The next part will be published on Monday.
If you are going crazy with the “who is who” game: Matteo is Popper and Luca is Hegel :).
Mese: aprile 2010
Visualizing information spread
We are currently working on information spreading in FriendFeed context. One of the best things about SIGSNA data is that by being a comprehensive set of data of two weeks is possible to track how specific information – identifiable by a set of keywords – spreads through the network of users. This is what we are doing tracking down the path of the news about the death of the Italian TV host Mike Bongiorno (died in Sept. 2009). The picture that you can see above shows all the Exposed users (users that directly commented AND users that saw the news but decided not to comment).
Isn’t it beautiful? We can’t say more at the moment, but in few days we are submitting a paper about that and hopefully you’ll be able to read it soon in our Data & Papers Section.
Back at work
After SBP10 Conference (the pic is there to prove that we’ve been really there) we are back at work. SPB10 has been an exiting and interesting experience for many reason. First the conference was very well organized, many interesting presentation, good time management, good food and an extraordinary cross fertilization session at the end of the conference. We’ve got a good idea of where the research on many relevant topics is going and we’ve met many interesting people. We’ve got the opportunity (thanks again for the fruitful cross-fertilization session!) to get in touch with many interesting researchers and now we just have to see if anything will came out of that.