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What Makes a Strong Social Network in 2015?

Source article: http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2014/01/06/when-network-effects-are-overvalued.aspx Dan Newman, writing for The Motley Fool, explains that some of the best social networks currently are ones that involve the consumer sacrificing more to join said network. There are currently lots of startups whose business is based entirely on their mobile applications that are being valued at billions of dollars (like Snapchat). […]

The Rapid Growth of eSports

Over the past couple of years, eSports has increased in popularity very quickly. The two articles linked both talk about the status of eSports, but one of them is from 2013 and the other is from 2015. One of the statistics given is about The International, a major tournament for Dota 2, a free-to-play multiplayer […]

Video Games and Pandemics

LINK: http://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/life/cellular-microscopic/spam-hiv1.htm While many parents gripe and complain about how video games are useless pastimes, video games can actually tell us a lot about social networks – including how they change during a pandemic. This blog will specifically focus on World of Warcraft, a massive multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) where people connected to a […]

Harm Posed By Fake Reviews

This article discusses how Amazon has seen an influx of fake reviews for several products on their website in the past several months and is expanding its campaign to eliminate these fake reviews. Amazon has currently launched a lawsuit against over 1,000 of these fake product reviewers because these reviews violate their terms of use. […]

Global Epidemic and Mobility Model

Originating from Northeastern University, the Global Epidemic and Mobility Model, otherwise known as GLEAM, maps outs the paths through which a disease such as the H1N1 Flu virus can take to spread from one place to another. It is used by epidemiologists to predict certain paths epidemics may take in their spread so that these […]

Using Social Media To Stop The New Spread Of HIV/AIDS

This article discusses the importance of continuing to use social media to spread the awareness of HIV/Aids since the problem is still increasingly growing at a steady rate. Monday Dec. 1 was HIV/AIDS awareness day and social media did its best to connect others as it always has done. There was hashtags that were started […]

Famous epidemics diseases and causes

In US history there were lots of diseases that wiping out quickly in US such as Small Epidemic in New England, Yellow Fever outbreak in Philadelphia and Asian Flu Pandemic. Those were long time ago in the history. AIDS, what we called HIV, is the new epidemic began to appear as a rare lung infection […]

IP Laws Need to Change in the Digital Age

We live in a digital age, characterized by rapidly spawning technologies and innovations. With all the new technology comes the ability to do things that we were unable to do before. Now if for some reason you are wondering about copyright and patent legislation, you may ask yourself, how could IP laws possibly cover situations involving […]

Tinder’s Growth

In reference to this study. This lengthy article attempts to describe Tinder’s dramatic growth. The article walks through several topics that the author believes contributed to the adoption of Tinder, but I will focus on the network effects. The article describes how Tinder took advantage of dense networks such as Greek fraternities and sororities to […]

Why did Ebola epidemic die out so quickly?

Last year, all the world was alarmed by a sudden attack of Ebola epidemic. With its extremely high mortality rate, this uncontrollable virus spread throughout the West Africa, resulting in a few thousand mortality within a few months. WHO declared a war against Ebola, expecting some possibility that this virus might end up threatening the […]

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