http://www.wired.com/news/technology/wireless/0,70826-0.html?tw=wn_index_1
http://money.cnn.com/2006/06/27/autos/parking_auction/index.htm
http://www.spotscout.com
BTW, I’m being totally honest when I say I typed this before the previous post was posted. Hopefully, it’s not completely the same in terms of content.
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When it comes to buying or selling stock, a trader acts as a middleman for the transaction. In the near future, it may be possible and common for […]

    Wired News copy chief Tony Long recently posted an interesting article entitled Parking Goes to  Highest Bidder.  The article deals with a startup company in Cambridge, Mass.  named SpotScout.  SpotScout aims to hire a group of “spot scouts” to keep a sort of inventory of local parking garages.  Price and availability information on participating […]

Using the Web to Get Your Boss to Pay More

Information is power. Employees now have the convenience of comparing their current salary to other people’s salaries who have similar job titles by using sites such as PayScale.com and/or Salary.com. These web sites aim to level the playing field by allowing people to […]

http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0409609
(click on the PDF link at the bottom for full text)
Having played soccer for a majority of my life, I’d like to think I know everything there is to know about the sport. Though this may be true about the rules and strategies of the game, after the reading the Palacios-Huerta paper I found a […]

The particular part of Shannon Applecline’s “Social Gaming Interactions, Part Two: Competition” which pertains most to the material in this class is what she describes as “the most exciting competition,” the economic competition involving auctions. Especially of interest is the variations on common auction types
which these games display, and how auctions traditionally held in reality […]

http://swicki.eurekster.com/ 
Swicki is a search engine which strives to provide customized results that are more relevant than a general search on a regular search engine.  This is done by creating a Swicki, a customized directory with preferences that are specified by the creator.  A directory is initialized by filling out a survey of preferences, thereafter, search […]

Over the past decade, the number of blogs on the internet, and the connections between those blogs, have been growing at an enormous rate. There are blogs that discuss technology, blogs that discuss personal lives, and numerous blogs that discuss politics and news. In Issue Publics on the Web: Applying Network Theory to the War […]

“Tag everything!” It’s the rallying cry of Web 2.0. Bookmarks (Del.icio.us), pictures (Flickr) or videos (YouTube), it can all be tagged.

Social Networking’s Next Phase
This article discusses the idea of using social networking for customers of a business.  Cisco Systems and other companies are exploring the idea of setting up a social networking service similar to Facebook or MySpace for companies to allow their clients to interact with one another.  This presents an interesting idea since […]

http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/selfdefense.html
In his paper Self-Defense: Balance Theory, Dissonance Theory, and Transactional Analysis, Dr. C. George Boeree (professor in the psychology dept at Shippensburg U.) takes the concept of structural balance theory that we discussed in class, and places it in its larger social psychological context.  Boeree argues that Heider’s Structural Balance Theory, Festinger’s Dissonance Theory, and Eric Berne’s Transactional Analysis […]