It is an interesting challenge to map social networks. It is used in crime fighting, to track terror cells, also advertising track social media trends for opportunities to advertise. Personally it could also be interesting to know how you are linked. I have researched some open source tools and these are the hottest topics in the area at the moment. Firstly the wikipedia link on the topic reveals heaps of software available.
Social network analysis software is used to identify, represent, analyze, visualize, or simulate nodes (e.g. agents, organizations, or knowledge) and edges (relationships) from various types of input data (relational and non-relational), including mathematical models of social networks. The output data can be saved in external files. Various input and output file formats exist.
A fascinating application is social network analysys in fighting organized crime as seen in this post.
Social Network Analysis [SNA] is a mathematical method for ‘connecting the dots’. SNA allows us to map and measure complex, and sometimes covert, human groups and organizations.
For those that are interested in developing social networks of their own, have a look at the list below for some great open source social networking tools.
Top 40 Free Downloadable Open Source Social Networking SoftwareVivalogo ResourcesThis is Vivalogo’s list of best free, downloadable, open source social networking software (kinda hard to say all these words 
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Happy social networking and i hope these tools make it a productive experience.
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It is an interesting challenge to map social networks. It is used in crime fighting, to track terror cells, also advertising track social media trends for opportunities to advertise. Personally it could also be interesting to know how you are linked. I have researched some open source tools and these are the hottest topics in the area at the moment. Firstly the wikipedia link on the topic reveals heaps of software available.
A fascinating application is social network analysys in fighting organized crime as seen in this post.
For those that are interested in developing social networks of their own, have a look at the list below for some great open source social networking tools.
Happy social networking and i hope these tools make it a productive experience.
Tags: Socialnetworking, social network analysis, social network tools applications, facebook. myspace,