http://www.mediaweek.com/mw/news/recent_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003552272
 
Popular auction site eBay is attempting to expand into the world of media by auctioning off television ad time.  With this new service, advertisers will be able to detail the target demographic, preferred time of day, and funding available.  Conversely, television networks will be able to make time available for willing bidders.  eBay is providing […]

I thought that I would supplement the game theory portion of this class with some ideas that I learned in Econ 367. In this class, we have had a brief introduction to game theory. We have covered Nash equilibria in pure and mixed strategies in various games, such as the Prisoner’s Dilemma, Battle […]

As any employer who gives his employees medical benefits can tell you, the price for prescription drugs can increased astronomically over the last 20 years. The number of filled prescriptions grew at an alarming rate; going form 13m prescriptions filled in 2002 to 22m filled in 2004 (What goes into the costs of Prescription Drugs?, […]

http://www.siliconvalleywatcher.com/mt/archives/2006/10/cisco_telepresc.php
 
Cisco has recently started to move away from their main business of routers and switches and more into facilitating the building of human networks. One of their newest technologies is Teleprescence. This is a $300,000 system that comes with three 65in high definition TVs. What this allows is next generation video conferencing. The fault with […]

A group of researchers have developed a system to make accurate predictions on the network performance between two arbitrary computers on the Internet. In the paper (Google HTML version), they define iPlane, a system that, in addition to doing simple tests on round-trip latency and throughput, accounts for the actual network topology. Such […]

Most people who use any of the mainstream search engines have at one point or another probably come across a search that returns rather strange, often comedic results. Examples of these are searches such as ‘miserable failure’ which, for quite some time, returned as the top result, a link to the white house biography of […]

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060119-6016.html

In the past few years the world saw the advent of numerous sites devoted solely to promote social networks. Among them, the facebook phenomenon has helped this category of websites to propel from simple, frivolous websites for friends to keep in contact with one another, to means for advertisement and for companies, colleges and future […]

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117959179.html?categoryid=2450&cs=1
The article “Technology hasn’t killed the collective viewing just yet” by Susanne Ault is about the social network Second Life (http://secondlife.com). Second Life is a free online community program created by Linden Lab that currently has 4.2 million registered users. In October of 2005, they had 600,000 members. This social network differs from the likes […]

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/02/business/02inside.1.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1595967,00.html
In the first week of March, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
accused 14 people of taking part in a huge inside trading ring, allegedly
making illicit profits totaling $15 million. The 14 defendants supposedly
used information stolen from UBS Securities LLC and Morgan Stanley & Co.,
Inc. Both links are about the same ordeal, but there are some […]

Some of the links in this post are very cool graphs. Definitely worth checking out!
Summary: Given a graph, finding an important node can sometimes be very intuitive. For example, finding a ‘bridge’ between two separate social groups might be very obvious if the graph is drawn properly. However, converting a set of […]