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This article discusses how Digg is similar to something called the “Urn Game”. This “game” quite simply shows the ideas of information cascades. In short, there are two identical urns, W (filled with mostly x-colored balls and some y-colored balls) and Z (filled with mostly y-colored balls and some x-colored). Everyone takes […]

Recently we’ve been talking about information cascades, and lately network effects, mostly in the context of tangible consumer goods and services. A more intangible example of both of these phenomena is going on right now, across the country. Although the first primary is more than eight months away, fund-raising has already started. This article in […]

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http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/media/article1604806.ece
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/apr2007/tc20070404_033516.htm?chan=technology_technology+index+page
In class we talked about Google’s methods of selling their ads. Google sells ads based on the keywords users use to find content they’re interested in using their search engine. Using this method, Google is able to provide the most pertinent ads to the correct group of audience, hence facilitating a larger percent in click […]

Is Microsoft a Monopolist?
This article concerning the late ’90’s Antitrust suit filed against Microsoft is essentially a summary of the various arguments that were made.  A portion of the article discusses the issue that some of Microsoft’s early adoption practices were percieved as monopolistic, especially pertaining to the inclusion of the Internet explorer web browser […]

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, […]

Why are a handful of social networking sites so successful while most attract far fewer users? Right now, MySpace and Facebook are strongly in control of the online social networking market, while all other networking sites attract less total traffic combined. According to Hitwise, MySpace has about 81% of the social network traffic […]

Digg.com
“Digg is a community-based popularity website with an emphasis on technology and science articles, recently expanding to a broader range of categories such as politics and entertainment. It combines social bookmarking, blogging, and syndication with a form of non-hierarchical, democratic editorial control.
News stories and websites are submitted by users, and then promoted to the front […]

NY Times Article
DoubleClick plans to announce they will set up a NASDAQ-like exchange for the buying and selling of digital ads.  Currently this company serves both buyers and sellers of digital ads, monitoring things such as number of clicks on a particular ad and working out marketing strategies.  This new type of exchange for buyers […]

Web advertising today is a vast network of pop-up ads, ads that play music and sound tracks, ads that swim across the screen, and infinitely other in your face advertising techniques used by advertisers. This article studies the different forms of Web advertising in use today, as well as the economics that are driving […]

SEO Tips
With the growing popularity of online search engines, especially Google, more and more web developers have grown to realize the importance of Search Engine Optimization (SEO).  More and more people become aware of what kind of procedures search engines rank pages, and this motivates these people to optimize their web page in terms of […]