Online Reputation Management
With the ever-increasing importance of the internet in our daily lives and the ubiquity of search engines to deal with it, the results, particularly the top results, of searches are more important than ever. Fortunately, or unfortunately, people are able to manipulate these results using techniques like adding links to and from specific websites, and […]
Not Playing Games
Recently, I came across an XKCD cartoon titled ‘Game Theory.’ It depicted the game of love as a valid game and claimed the winning move was not to play. Those this is a bit of humor, it occurs to me that most games modeled do not have this option of ‘not playing’. I believe one […]
Bitcoin Exists
Bitcoin Exists http://techcrunch.com/2011/10/24/the-business-of-bitcoin-entrepreneurs-see-opportunities-in-alternative-currencies/ Over the past few months, the electronic currency known as Bitcoin has gained a surprising amount of attention. The idea of Bitcoins is to create an anonymous “crypto-currency,” with payments theoretically untrackable and therefore difficult to tax, among other claimed advantages. Currencies such as this are interesting from a networking perspective, lacking […]
Web Advertisers: They Know Where I Am?!
The pressure is on for companies who advertise online; pressure from user-end receivers of ads, and pressure from the mega web companies from which slots are bought. What kind of pressure? Users are clicking on ads significantly less often, and a sort of “numbing” effect is taking place; the colorful banners wallpapering the tops of […]
Survival of The Stupidest
http://www.science20.com/hammock_physicist/survival_stupidest-77846 This article discusses why making “stupid” decisions in the world continues to flourish. Johannes Koelman, the author, uses the definition of stupidity as Carlo Cipolla defined it: “A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person or to a group of persons while himself deriving no gain and even possibly incurring […]
Twitter Advertising
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-31749_162-57319886-10391698/celebrities-paid-thousands-for-endorsement-tweets/ In a time when people and companies are trying to keep up with our ever growing and changing world, social networks are at the center of all this change. More and more, people are trying to figure out the most effective ways to take advantage of the large memberships of social networks like Facebook […]
Foreclosures in Phoenix
http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/Articles/2011/10/13/The-New-Land-Grab-Profiting-from-Foreclosures.aspx#page1 The area around Phoenix, Arizona has been hard hit by the recession, especially in regards to its housing market. Prior to 2009, there were always some foreclosed houses offered at auction, and there were a few people in the market to buy them. Excellent deals could be had in buying these homes. Over the […]
Information Cascade: Television Service Providers
http://www.twice.com/article/476171-DirecTV_Reports_Q3_Revenue_Subscriber_Growth.php Surely you have heard of the ongoing competition between the various major television service providers in the United States. This intense competition usually boils down to three major providers: DirecTV, Dish Network, and cable service providers. People’s decisions in choosing which provider or switching between providers can be explained by information cascade. The article […]
Google Plus Attempts To Reach Tipping Point By Selectively Rolling Out Ability To Make Business Pages
Google is beginning to open up its Google Plus service to businesses. It is starting out this transition by opening up the services only to select businesses, such as Pepsi and Toyota. It will even include features such as when you search “+Pepsi” It will link you right to Pepsi’s Google Plus page. Allowing businesses […]
Electricity and its Affects on Social Networks and Markets
http://news.yahoo.com/northeast-power-outages-hit-many-businesses-hard-230532966.html On October 29-30 a record-setting snowstorm passed through Northeast and damaged many utility lines as an estimated three million homes and businesses lost power. Connecticut was hit the hardest as there were more than 830,000 power outages and another 37,000 people remained out of power on Monday, about a week and a half after […]
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