Cody Taylor

What’s Facebook really worth? The fast-growing social network is adding to its 150 million users effortlessly. But revenues aren’t growing as easily. And that has Mark Zuckerberg’s company tied up in legal and financial knots. Last summer, the company settled a dispute with a rival social network, ConnectU, that dates back to the founding of…

rememberclifford writes “A survey of about 3,000 people who were tagged in a “25 Random Things About Me” note on Facebook found that memes spread through social networks in a remarkably similar way as diseases do. A biologist who looked at the data says that “’25 Things’ authors can be seen as ‘contagious’ under what’s known as a ‘susceptible-infected-recovered’ model for the spread of disease,” with a propagation factor of 0.27 in this case. But like an infection, the whole thing died out as quickly as it exploded once the number of ‘victims’ — people who were willing to write 25 things about themselves — was depleted.” The ’25 Things’ meme was at least as annoying as a light flu.

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