I recently stumbled upon news article, which is about a new “web based marketplace where investors and entrepreneurs can make serious investment connections.” I thought this was interesting because it shows the real world applications encompassing many of the things we have been learning about in the past few weeks. Mainly, it shows […]

http://www.last.fm
Last.fm is considered to be the first of its kind, and has been the most successful in its area of service. Essentially, it is a networking service based upon music. Last.fm essentially learns the users preferences in music in a variety of ways, and then creates a radio station based off of the […]

In the Wired article “A New Type of Game Turns Web Surfing Into All-Out Information Warfare,” Mary Jane Irwin describes an online game that adds new and exciting dimensions to browsing the Web. In “passively multiplayer online games” (PMOGs), Web users add an application that follows their online activity. The object of the game is […]

While the subprime mortgage lending crisis has yet to be explained fully, as only time can tell the true causes and effects, a few simple models and an few intuitive observations can lend some valuable insight into why the crisis happened and how it cascaded. As reported here A guide to the subprime mortgage […]

In class today, we started the discussion of the information network. It was mentioned that the world wide web is getting arbitrarily large. An important point to notice is the ways in which it is growing. One way that has become especially popular during recent years is the use of the web for personal services […]

Facebook has become one of the largest and most popular social networks among high school and college students. Currently, Facebook has many third party applications. This article talks about an online investment site, Cake Financial, launching a Facebook application that enable to share their portfolios of their actual brokerage accounts. This application allows users to share the […]

http://www.voanews.com/english/2008-02-27-voa64.cfm
I never knew much about the federal interest rate until I took Econ 102 my sophomore year. My professor would often talk of Alan Greenspan, the chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve at the time, meeting to discuss changing the federal interest rate. I believe at the time, the […]

What do zebras fleeing a lion and emailing patterns after the Enron scandal was exposed have in common? Networks! Network theory can be used to identify exactly when a lion comes into the vicinity if a herd of zebras. Their pattern of reaction can be predicted from the specific way that the zebras interact with […]

http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/2005/03/66813?currentPage=1
In this Wired article, Terdiman discusses MoSoSos or mobile social software which could potentially make a huge cultural impact on our lifestyles. Mobile social software is the technological confluence of social networking tools and either Wi-Fi connection location or global-positioning software. MoSoSos facilitate social encounters by identifying the real-world geographic location of a mobile device […]

In class, we briefly discussed how road networks play into game theory. We kept our model of real-world road networks relatively simple, limiting our congestion-reducing strategies to road construction and toll and subsidy implementation. We never delved into other traffic control innovations, such as the traffic signal, to which the following article pertains:
http://www.trafficpd.com/Publication/Signal1.pdf
The article is […]