Facebook’s New Auction Style Changes Existing Advertising Techniques
Similar to traditional auctions, other auction variations have been used by many websites to determine which advertisements to put on their sites. Google uses AdWords, which is based on the formatting of second price auctions, where the winning advertiser gets an advertising spot by paying the second highest price. However, Facebook, with the help of […]
Hacking for Profit
The Internet is both a blessing and a curse in the modern era. The endless resources that have emerged from its existence have made people’s lives simpler and more efficient; with the click of a button, you can transfer from web page to web page and find endless information that can be useful in everyday […]
Google’s Penguin Algorithm
We’ve looked at PageRank in class as well as Authority and Hub rankings, but how can a search engine combat shady optimization and unscrupulous link spamming? In a connected world where search results can mean success or failure in your business, how can one ensure that everybody has a fair opportunity to rise through the […]
Google Shifts Search Engine Algorithms from Keywords and Links to Content Quality
This article highlights some of the changes Google has made to its Search Engine algorithms in recent years, including the diminshing importance of links and keywords. The first evidence of this change came on September 23, 2013, when Google disabled the ability of website owners to view the keywords (via Google Analytics) that visitors had […]
Fantasy Basketball Auction Drafts
While everyone’s mind may be on football at the moment, I have one thought on my mind. How many days until the NBA season starts? As we near tip-off many people will be taking part in fantasy basketball leagues. In order to divide teams, each person must select who they’d like in the draft. Now […]
Power
Many relationships between individuals in a network have some sort of power struggle, whether that relationship is a boss and an employee or a wife and a husband. This is because not everything can be separated equally, which was demonstrated in network exchange experiments, in which people were forced to […]
Sports..Sports Utility Vehicles?
There’s been a bit of a shake up as of late within the high end luxury and sports car markets. In 2003, Porsche launched the Cayenne, a Sports Utility Vehicle that, at the time, went against the very essence of Porsche’s DNA: well-engineered, high performance sports cars, period. To brand purists, Porsche’s decision to develop […]
Fantasy Football Auction Strategy
In Fantasy Football, the aim of the game is to build a team of players who will perform the best in the upcoming NFL season. This becomes competitive when one plays in a league as multiple people want the same “good” players. The process of allocating players to teams is facilitated through an auction where […]
LinkedIn’s sorry for making you seem like you really want to connect with someone
Linkedin is an online social network designed for business professionals. Its mission is “to connect the world’s professions to make them more productive and successful.” Basically, it is a form of networking online, and you grow your network by adding people you know, or “connections.” In class, we learned how having many edges, or connections, […]
Six degrees of FRANCIS BACON: Interactive relationship maps shows ‘friends of friends’ for historical figures
Link to article: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3276520/Six-degrees-FRANCIS-BACON-Interactive-relationship-maps-shows-friends-friends-historical-figures.html On the 9th of October, the Professors spoke about 6 degrees of separation, and then I looked online to find an interesting correlation about this topic. I came across an article that wold have created a social network (interactive map) between historic figures from the 1500 – 1700s. This study highlighted 13,000 […]
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