In the mid-90s, when Larry Page was still a graduate student at Stanford University, he started pondering about the Internet and its structure. Before he ever dreamed of creating the world’s greatest search engine, Page was interested in the Web for its mathematical qualities, its network structure. With his deep roots in academia, […]

The success of the iPod is a result of information being passed through a network and some point, around the 3rd generation iPod the tipping point occurred and the iPod fad spread like wild fire. Other products with […]

As pointed out by beefcake [link], finding relevant content often limits users on the internet more than lack of content. Of course, companies like Google have profited greatly from search: utilizing the link structure of the internet to help users navigate. Indeed, web growth these days is very much dependent on the aggregation, […]

One of the most talked about new web applications today is a service called Twitter. A dead-simple social messaging application, Twitter has been the subject of recent controversy in the blogosphere. Some like it. Some don’t. Some just wonder how we will get anything done.
What is Twitter? From Medialoper:
If you’re not familiar with Twitter, it’s […]

The Odd Couple of Social Networking
In early March, a router giant, Cisco, purchased Utah Street Networks, the owners of a social networking site tribe.net. Cisco did not buy the actual social network community (which is comprised mainly of those involved in the Burning Man, but rather, the underlying technology so that they can focus […]

In our discussion of keyword-based advertising, we focused quite a bit on keyword auctions where search engines would sell ad slots to the highest bidding advertisers. In our model, the value of a slot to an advertiser was determined by the expected clickthrough rate multiplied by the value of each click to the advertiser. However, […]

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In Online Social Networks and the Profit Motive, Elizabeth Millard explains entrepreneurs’ wariness in investing in social networks. How exactly does one advertise in an online social network? While financial analysts do see online social networks as promising markets, the question remains how to tactfully and efficiently advertise on such venues. “[Advertising on […]

hypersearching, as discovered in class, is a powerful tool in attaining a fast and accurate result when searching for a query term. Although it is not implemented globally yet, it would prove to be a very powerful searching mechanism. While surfing the web for my own entertainment sakes, I have found several aspects of Korean web […]

BigChampagne Is Watching You

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In class we recently finished discussing the idea of an information cascade. One application for information cascades that came up was trend-setting. The idea is to jump start a trend (fashion, music, etc.) by targeting and attracting key individuals who have a lot of sway in the industry. […]

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Every year for lent, Catholics and other people who celebrate lent are adding new vices to their list of things to give up. Instead of the usual foods, drinks, or cigarettes, people are forfeiting their online social networks for the Lenten season. Online social networks such as MySpace and Facebook and Instant […]