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Discussion post:

Value of Networking Data

Interesting blog post: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AndrewChensBlog/~3/302758870/data-portabillity-is-the-social-network-data-youre-hoarding-treasure-or-trash.html
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Comment to: Bo Cowgill

Bo,
Did you get my email


Comment to: Andreas Weigend

Just wanted to confirm the due date for hw6. Is it 1st June?


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Did anyone else make a live web recommender for links? If so, post it here. I am intersted to see what other people did.

Here is mine:

http://www.billwhiteley.com/test.php5


Comment to: Bo Cowgill

In case you didn't already know, your article on google's prediction markets was eluded to in the latest Wired!

Here is a link to the article: http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/magaz...


Discussion post:

Media discovery through Twitter

In the last class while we were discussing the problem of music recommendations and discovery, someone suggested that Twitter could be used as a tool for this. I came across this article while going through my feeds a few days afterwards and thou...
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Discussion post:

"Ten Ways to Change the World Through Social Media"

from 'sustainabog.org' interesting list of ideas / companies. Social responsibility meets social networking. http://sustainablog.org/2008/05/12/ten-ways-to-change-the-world-through-social-media/
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If you get a 503 message, it is because you are being too aggressive with the del.icio.us servers and got throttled. Here is the link that explains it:

http://del.icio.us/help/api/


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Is anyone else having problems with the del.icio.us assignment. Everything was working fine and then suddenly I started getting this error. Is any one else experiencing the same thing. Looks like the server crashed.

File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/pydelicious.py", line 783, in get_urlposts
return getrss(url = url)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/pydelicious.py", line 774, in getrss
return dlcs_rss_request(tag=tag, popular=popular, user=user, url=url)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/pydelicious.py", line 414, in dlcs_rss_request
rss = http_request(url).read()
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/pydelicious.py", line 261, in http_request
raise PyDeliciousException, "%s" % e
pydelicious.PyDeliciousException: HTTP Error 503: Service Temporarily Unavailable


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This site reminded me of the very last presentation in class the other day. You can view and purchase what celebrities are wearing:

http://coolspotters.com/


Discussion post:

Question: transaction costs and the environment

i was thinking in today's lecture about transaction costs and how we keep hearing that transaction costs are virtually zero in the new economy. (I use 'transaction' loosely to refer to most, if not all interactions, such as information sharing) ...
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Job Post for a Data Mining position at eBay

Quite accidentally stumbled upon this posting on Craigslist, while looking through the output of a Yahoo Pipe http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sby/sci/662495024.html Interesting to read what a data miner does for living in the real world.
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Response to the discussion post:

London Mayoral Elections and Internet Data

Very interesting data. Thanks for sharing.

Also, is the voting restricted to residents of London? If so, I don't see how you can compare % of UK traffic to % of US traffic. One is a local election -- the other is national.

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Discussion post:

"The Twittering Class and the Primaries"

quick mention of Twitter / microblogging intersecting with primaries. http://www.npr.org/blogs/sundaysoapbox/2008/04/the_twittering_class_and_the_p.html
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Intrade - The Prediction Market

In reading "The Promise of Prediction Markets: A Roundtable" by The McKinsey Quarterly, I wanted to share this link with you, http://www.intrade.com/ Pretty much, these are stock options on real events where people bet by buying and selling ...
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Slashdot Review of Toby Segeran's Newest Book!

Hi, did you pull the link ? I was looking for it.

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Berkeley student 'Twitters' his way out of Egyptian jail

This is cool indeed. Just having finished teaching 9 hours at Haas (UC Berkeley's GSB) today, I for a moment thought it was one of my students there :)

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Hey, all:

TechCrunch mentioned Friends For Sale. Especially interesting is the mention of competitors:

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/04/25/...


Discussion post:

Facebook Poll

I am part of a group in MS&E271. Our final project is to promote the use of the Your2Cents application on Facebook. If you get a chance, please read further at, http://www.facebook.com/business/?polls We will be collecting data and analyzi...
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You can check my work in progress at,

http://www.stanford.edu/~ctct955/

Many thanks!


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Please go to http://www.stanford.edu/~kryberg/
to help me get data for homework 2.


Comment to: Ashlee Miller

Hi Ashlee,
I've gotten more explanations for some speakers but not all. The poll's at http://www.polldaddy.com/p/516585/ if you want to check it out. Hopefully it should be ready soon. I'm just waiting for the green light on it now.
-Quinn


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Also see http://www.google.com/support/googlea... if you are using the newer tracking code.


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I have learned you can track individual links to pdfs and other non-html content with Google Analytics, but it appears to require moving the tracking code (see http://www.google.com/support/googlea...).


Comment to: Quinn Slack

Quinn - Are you getting the level of detail you need on the Guest Speakers to create the poll? Please let us know.


Comment to: Andreas Weigend

I am unsure of the due date of HW2. I know that you talked about the assignments for the first part of the class on Monday, but I don't recall the exact due date for HW2 nor is it on the wiki that I can see.


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I added a section to the bottom of HW2 on the wiki for people to place links to their homepage. Seemed like an efficient way to visit everyone's site quickly and generate a lot of good data.

http://stanford2008.wikispaces.com/HW2


Discussion post:

Cry for help...

I posted a cry for help on our class Facebook page. It is certainly indirectly related to this course (it's a data mining project I am working on), but not directly relevant to the current homework. Would surely appreciate if anyone can take a lo...
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Please go to my website at: http://www.stanford.edu/~skmenon

I am collecting data for HW1. Thanks! I will do the same for you - send me an email with your website link.


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Prediction Markets

There is a company called predictify in San Francisco Bay Area. They came to the spring career fair last week. I thought their business model is pretty interesting. Hopefully, professor will invite them to give use a talk.
Collective intelligience is great, don't you think so?

Here is a link to their company's site:
http://www.predictify.com/

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