-----Original Message----- From: masmith@microsoft.com [mailto:masmith@microsoft.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2001 2:13 PM To: Netscan Mailing list Subject: [netscan] 2.0 Release Netscan Netscan Community Research at Microsoft Research Data Mining Social Cyberspaces since 1997 Netscan Beta 2.0 Now Available! Netscan social accounting services for Usenet What is Netscan? Netscan is a social accounting reporting service for the Usenet. Netscan provides reports on the activity of newsgroups and the histories of authors in those newsgroups. The Microsoft Community Research Group created Netscan as a service to the research community and a test-bed for enhanced community services. Research Sociologist Marc Smith leads a small group of developers creating next generation community interfaces. How can I use Netscan? Netscan is publicly available at http://netscan.research.microsoft.com. New Data Keeping up with Usenet is a big challenge. Growing rapidly, the Usenet feed is larger than 60GB a day. Netscan now provides data for all the newsgroups we get in our feed from January 1, 2000 through the end of August, 2001. Coming soon is data for September 2001. Look for quicker data updates coming in the near future. Our new interfaces are now available! Netscan offers reports on all Usenet newsgroups that we receive in our news feed, currently 130,000 newsgroups. Through Netscan you can access newsgroup reports for any day, week, or month starting from the first of January, 2000. Use Netscan to track the activity of your favorite newsgroups and read the most active threads in any newsgroup. Newsgroup report cards Get a focused report on any individual newsgroup we track. Thread reports for newsgroups Sorting threads by size should be a common news browser feature, but it isn't. Netscan now provides reports on the biggest threads in every newsgroup for every day, week, and month in the data set. Crosspost network visualization See the patterns of interlinked newsgroups starting from any set of anchor newsgroups you select. Author Tracker Identifying the most valuable authors in each newsgroup can be an effective vector for finding the most valuable content. To explore this approach, Netscan now offers an Author to Thread report that lists the most frequently active participants in each newsgroup and the threads they contributed to most often. This can be a great way to highlight the most valuable content in each newsgroup. Tree Map of Usenet Get an overview of the entire Usenet in one glance! Tree Maps are an interesting way to visualize large hierarchical structures -- like Usenet! Our Tree Map service allows you to zoom into just the neighborhood of newsgroups you are interested in and generate maps for any month in the data set. Try it here. Join our Netscan Mailing List Join the Netscan mailing list and get updates about Usenet, Online Communities, and new services. Your E-mail: Subject: Message: Recent Articles The Netscan Project: Mapping the Social Geography of Usenet News April, 2001 Is Microsoft Smart- or Just Successful? May 15, 2001 Calendar January 7-10, 2002 - Hawaii International Conference on Systems Science, HICSS 2002, See in particular the Persistent Conversation minitrack and the HICSS Digital Library. April 20-25, 2002 - ACM Computer Human Interaction Conference CHI 2002, Minneapolis, Minnesota Related Links Tree Maps for space-constrained visualization of hierarchies Cyber Geography Atlas MIT Media Lab Sociable Media Group Conversation Maps Microsoft Research Social Computing Group Microsoft Research Collaboration and Multimedia Group Communities in Cyberspace is in second printing Edited by: Marc Smith and Peter Kollock Communities in Cyberspaceis devoted to exploring new forms of social organization and the changing concepts of community as social groups develop within computer networks. Contributors examine changes in the nature of personal identity, social organization and the connections between real-world communities and their extensions in cyberspace. Communities in Cyberspace is published by Routledge and is now available In association with Amazon.com, Barnes and Noble.com and other booksellers. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Thank you for your continued interest in the Netscan Project. We sent this message because you subscribed to our mailing list. If you'd rather not receive future e-mails about news, developments, or updates, please reply to this message with the word 'UNSUBSCRIBE' in the SUBJECT line. Please see the Netscan privacy policy Copyright 2001, Microsoft Corporation --- You are currently subscribed to netscan as: godard@virginia.edu To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-netscan-3636D@list.research.microsoft.com