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Nice to see people drinking the web 2.0 collaboration kool-aid in a good way.

The editors of Complexity and Social Networkers, a blog from the Institute for Quantiative Social Science and the Program on Netwoked Governance at Harvard, had begun a comprehensive search for social network analysis tools and libraries. Not having found a single wellspring, they posted their findings on Wikipedia, and called for others to help fill it in. As they explain,

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In 2005, Howard Rheingold gave a talk at the inimitable TED. Over the first 20 minutes, he reviewed the cycle of the evolution of the interrelation of biology and humanity — no mean feat, but largely review if you’ve been paying attention. Along the way, the interwoven thread of markets, communication and human evolution get highlighted, starting with the Gutenberg metaphor. “Markets are ancient, but capitalism and socialism are relatively new, and still changing,” he states.

This is where it gets good: He quickly reviews the highlights in new forms of wealth creation resulting from the most socially disruptive of technologies, the Internet, which he reminds us is still in the early days. Continue reading