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Here is an interesting article that relates to chapter 3.

http://technology.inc.com/networking/articles/200809/contacts.html

With chapter 3 focusing on data, databases, data mining, and data storage I thought this article was appropriate although not exactly in the formal spirit of the text. The article focused on personal contact databases and posed some interesting questions and observations. The article focused on the number of personal contacts that one should have, stating that you can only manage about 150 friends or contacts according to Dunbar's law, named after Robin Dunbar who posed the hypothesis, although there were exceptions mentioned. The article then talked about how contacts can be an efficient tool for job hunting and or sales leads if properly maintained. Mention was made as to how expanding personal contacts digitally could give feedback information about who was looking at your profile while at the same time promoting your qualities and talents. The article ended with a story of how one web contact led to a job with the then startup company YouTube where he was worth 6 million plus within six months joining that startup.