The Power of Social Networking in Finding Jobs
In the world today, especially with college students and graduating seniors, the pursuit of a job or internship is on many people’s mind. Everyone goes through the same thing: the never-ending critiques of resumes and cover letters and the non-stop preparing for interviews. However, the world has changed a lot, and those things may not […]
Decision making as a group
About a year and a half ago, a live stream began of someone playing Pokemon Red, the original game. However, this live stream also contained a comment section, through which anyone watching could control the player in the game. A comment like “left” would move the player left, and “a” would press the a-button. Normally, […]
Anti-trust Laws and theComcast/Time Warner Merger
Earlier this year the FCC shot down a proposal of a merger between the two cable companies, Comcast and Time Warner Cable. Citing antitrust laws, they believed that this merger would put too much control of the industry in the hands of one company. Specifically, they argued that this could make Comcast more powerful than […]
The Ugly Side of Page Rank
In a recent lecture, we discussed the topic of Page Rank and how google used the Network of internet to perform its Google Search. PageRank is the initial algorithm developed by the Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin. Initially, the Google ranked the webpages according to the relevancy and each page was given a […]
Networks in the study of history
http://mpe.dimacs.rutgers.edu/2013/06/21/networks-in-the-study-of-culture-and-society/ http://orbis.stanford.edu/ With the rapid growth of the Internet and the Web, the connection between people and region becomes closer and more frequent, the ability of news and information spread around the world with surprising speed and intensity. In this situation, the study of networks is developed. We can say that the study of networks […]
Why America is Hungry According to John Oliver
http://www.rollingstone.com/tv/news/watch-john-olivers-sobering-look-at-american-food-waste-20150720 America seems to have a food crisis with 49 million Americans living in food-insecure households as of 2013. The crisis however isn’t a shortage of food production but an unprecedented amount of food waste. 40% of food produced in America never makes it to the dinner table, that’s over 165 billion dollars of food […]
How does Google know what I’m looking for?
In our technologically innovative world, being able to get what you want as quickly as possible has become the mission statement of multi-billion dollar companies. Search on the internet has evolved into a new science of information retrieval. One of the leaders of this pioneering science is Google. For over a decade, Google has been […]
Global Connectivity in the Age of the Internet
Despite the common perception that the entire global population is currently connected through the internet, a majority of people, 4.7 billion people, are still offline on a regular basis. The majority of people who are actively online exist in the Americas and the Asia-Pacific regions. This disparity results from economic, gender, and language barriers. Future […]
How Search Engine Optimization Has Changed
Article referenced here. In the past, it was simple to game the system and increase your site’s pagerank. All one had to do was identify a keyword and place it in the target site with high density in the URL, body, heading, etc. The next step was to use that site site to direct traffic […]
Markets & Strategic Interaction: Eliminating Tips at NYC Restaurants
Reference Article: http://ny.eater.com/2015/10/14/9517747/danny-meyer-no-tipping-restaurants#_intro This article discusses Union Square Hospitality Group’s new “Hospitality Included” plan to raise its cooks’, managers’ and servers’ starting salaries – as well as the price of food by 20-25% – while banning tips at 13 of their New York City restaurants and cafes. The discussion is based around the idea that […]
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