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The Voice App

This Monday, NBC’s The Voice had it’s live show premier for its seventh season. As part of the premier, the show unveiled the new “Voice App.” With this new app, users can vote for their favorite singers during the show. At the end of the show, the results of in-app votes are displayed for all […]

The Republican Majority and its Rise

When Obama won the election in 2008, he was seen as a hero of the youth. Obama had a huge presence on Youtube (remember his Obama Girl), was the first president to do an “AMA” (Ask Me Anything) on Reddit, and on college campuses. He campaigned for “hope”. Obama based his campaign off the idea […]

The Information Cascade Driving the GamerGate Controversy

Gamergate is an ongoing controversy in the video gaming community, involving ethics of game developers and journalists, as well as how misogyny is perpetuated in video game culture. The controversy started when the ex-boyfriend of a game developer named Zoe Quinn wrote a blog post accusing her of having an intimate relationship with a journalist […]

Messenger and Popularity

http://www.theverge.com/2014/11/10/7187495/facebook-messenger-500-million-monthly-users                 How do the effects of Information-cascades and Direct Benefits come into play when the conversation of forced integration is on the table? This is going to be a discussion about how Facebook has forced it’s users on their mobile devices to download their Messenger application and separated its original service. The article is […]

Making Bitcoin Mainstream by Information Cascading

Link: https://www.coindesk.com/can-make-bitcoin-mainstream/ Bitcoin is a recently developed virtual currency system, established by a loyal community and mined through computational  methods.  Its usages and effectiveness are not the key point of this article, as much as its popularity and number of users.  Since February, there are only 1.2 million bitcoin addresses in the world. Publicity efforts have […]

Information Cascades and the recent Congressional Elections

Information Cascades and the recent Congressional Elections Information cascades occur when people join the crowd regardless of their own private information.  Recently, the Congressional elections took place, where there were 471 seats total up for election. The Republicans gained a vast majority of the seats in both the House and the Senate. This is pretty […]

Quantum Bayesianism

Physics is often used to describe modern-day, macroscopic phenomena, or at least that is the way it is often taught. However, with the last century came an understanding of quantum phenomena, basically a fundamental set of rules and laws that apply across a wider set of systems. Namely, quantum can accurately describe both subatomic and […]

Crowdsourcing and Network Effect

Crowdsourcing, or using large groups of people (often via the internet) to produce services, content, or knowledge in a given context. Say for example, I’m the maker of Tile, a little brick which attaches to your things and tells you where they are. Part of Tile’s functionality relies on many users being able to pick […]

Income Distribution in the United States

  Network effects have a tremendous presence in the growth of the income gap and wealth concentration in the United States. The distribution of resources in the United States is unmatched by any other developed country and is direct result of the “rich get richer” process. The growing gap in the last few decades is […]

TrackR and the Network Effect

A recent marketing campaign has been going viral on Facebook. The technology is called TrackR, and it does just what its name implies. However, there’s a twist: this tracker uses GPS technology to crowdsource the finding of one’s lost items. TrackR advertises: “If an item goes missing, TrackR’s Crowd GPS network will help you find […]

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