Modified PageRank Helps Preserve Ecosystems
Ecosystems are huge networks of interconnecting parts, and it’s not always clear where efforts should be focused in order to preserve them. However, one researcher has come up with a plan: modify the powerful PageRank algorithm to find out which prey species are critical to the ecosystem’s success. Conservational biologists have traditionally used an intensive […]
Nokia’s Smartphone Success Depends on Microsoft Windows Phone OS’s Network Effect Capabilities
In the third quarter of 2011, world smartphone sales totaled 115 million, which is up 42 percent from the third quarter of 2010. Nokia, the world’s second biggest smartphone vendor, has seen sales fall 37 percent to 16.8 million phones from 26.5 million a year ago. In that same period, Samsung has tacitly risen to […]
Cascading Eurozone Crisis (Page Rank Style)
The current crisis in the eurozone is putting the economic world in a state of anxiety as the world watches markets in the European Union’s economic bubble begin falling apart. Due to poor policy on many nation’s part, increasing wages and borrowing without adequate revenue and tax collection, many nations are now unable to repay […]
Ugh, not another Ugg-ly fashion trend!
http://www.cato.org/pubs/regulation/regv26n4/v26n4-2.pdf Love them or hate them, they are absolutely everywhere. The first time I saw a pair of Uggs years ago, they were on my sister’s feet, and I thought, “Ugg, it’s a name play on ugly, right?” My initial repulse aside, I knew right then that I would be seeing much, much more of […]
Kindle Fire vs. Nook Tablet
http://poway.patch.com/articles/kindle-fire-vs-nook-tablet-the-choice-depends-on-how-you-use-it-16fd1854 November 15 2011 is the important date for the Tablet market because Amazon’s Kindle Fire Tablet has been released today. Many people are predicting that there will be a breakthrough in the iPad 2 dominated Tablet Market because Amazon’s Kindle Fire, which has worse, but similar hardware, software, and functions as the iPad 2, is […]
Information cascades and the filter bubble
Much has been written about the “filter bubble” (a term coined by Eli Pariser in his latest book/TED Talk of the same name). Pariser makes the argument that the filter bubble essentially arises from information cascades that occur in the world. This is particularly interesting when looking at viral trends (video and news especially) that […]
Apple Urged to Cut iPad Prices to Maintain Sales Growth
Apple has sold 40 million iPads since the 2010 launch, however, one pundit suggests that this trend is something that will slow. Because of the tremendous growth of the iPad in the first 20 months of it’s release, it dominates 97% of web traffic through tablet devices. This bar is so high, that there are […]
Peer Pressure: The Effects of Information Cascade on Clothes, Trends, and Drug Usage
Peer pressure is one of the most relevant examples of information cascade for high school and college students. As youth still searching for their place in society, teenagers try new things to fit in, find themselves, and make others like or accept them. Many of the decisions made are not because of the individual but […]
The Market’s Response to Rick Perry’s Poor Debate Performance
During the Republican presidential debate last week, Governor Rick Perry of Texas could not remember the third national government agency he wanted to eliminate. “The third one, I can’t,” he finally said, a sad look on his face, after 53 seconds had gone by. “Sorry. Oops.” [3] During the few seconds of this verbal gaffe, […]
Ethics of the Search Engine Advertising
Have your tried to search “Internet carrier” or “air cleaner” at Google to find some information about what to buy? By searching some terms, most search engine will display some sponsored links on the side of the window. However, there are ethics issues involving the advertising. For example, fraud links could happen to show […]
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