Comments on: Movie Marketing Strategy http://nsdl.library.cornell.edu/websites/expertvoices/info2040/archives/2110 This is a supplemental blog for a course which will cover how the social, technological, and natural worlds are connected, and how the study of networks sheds light on these connections. Fri, 08 Mar 2013 14:27:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Cornell Info 204 Digest » Blog Archive » YAIC (Yet Another Information Cascade) http://nsdl.library.cornell.edu/websites/expertvoices/info2040/archives/2110#comment-1352 Cornell Info 204 Digest » Blog Archive » YAIC (Yet Another Information Cascade) Mon, 16 Apr 2007 07:14:49 +0000 http://nsdl.library.cornell.edu/websites/expertvoices/info2040/archives/2110#comment-1352 [...] There are obvious problems caused by information cascade especially on voting systems. As we seen in the websites ranking video clips, early voter can cause information cascade and manipulate the ranking system. A company called CrowdRules’ solution to the information cascade problem for online polls brought up by the blogger stl2006 seemed simple yet very effective. The mechanism is form a crowd, keep all ratings private, compile the results, and release the cumulative ranking. However, the situation might not be that simple in the Movie industry. Three postings each by ajg43, outtatime, and jae37 talk about the motion picture industry and information cascade, and it is worthwhile to read them consecutively. [...] […] There are obvious problems caused by information cascade especially on voting systems. As we seen in the websites ranking video clips, early voter can cause information cascade and manipulate the ranking system. A company called CrowdRules’ solution to the information cascade problem for online polls brought up by the blogger stl2006 seemed simple yet very effective. The mechanism is form a crowd, keep all ratings private, compile the results, and release the cumulative ranking. However, the situation might not be that simple in the Movie industry. Three postings each by ajg43, outtatime, and jae37 talk about the motion picture industry and information cascade, and it is worthwhile to read them consecutively. […]

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