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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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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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"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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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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London Mayoral Elections and Internet Data
I am following the London Mayoral Race somewhat (Yup, I am bored with the Hillary - Obama race here in US :-). Hitwise had a nice blog enty on what is happening with internet and London Voters. Some interesting facts:
- Wikipedia is bigger than...
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"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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Berkeley student 'Twitters' his way out of Egyptian jail
This is not extremely relevant to our course -- but it is interesting and in some senses, close to home. Think of the reaction if Andreas twittered: "Arrested!"
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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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Interesting article on Amazon's Web Services (cloud computing)
AWS has been the recipient of much hype over the last couple months, but if you are still not familiar with it, or want an insider's look into its positioning, read this new Wired article:
http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/magazine/16-05/mf_amazon
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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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Slashdot Review of Toby Segeran's Newest Book!
Dr. Weigend mentioned Toby and his book in class on Monday. I also think he said he will be visiting class?
Coincidentally, Slashdot had a review of his latest book today. They scored it a 9/10. Here is the link:
http://books.slashdot.org/bo...
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Prediction Markets
Professor Weigend briefly described prediction markets in class today. Specifically, he mentioned that if proper incentives are employed, people do an excellent job at predicting future events. Here is a recent article from Scientific American tha...
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