Social Media Content Epidemic
Social networks are generally structured in a way that allows users to build their own networks, whether of friends, acquaintances, followers, or a similar concept. A Lithuanian startup called Plag aims to redefine the way we spread and receive content online. When a user chooses to share a post on this app, which they call […]
ISIS vs. CySIS
ISIS, an infamous terrorist group, is unusual in that the period of it’s ideology and the period of it’s methods lie on the opposite ends of time. It is more or less understood that their goal is to push an extreme, “medieval-style” ideology on the Islamic State, but their recruitment strategy is very modern — […]
How Facebook beat Myspace
Myspace is long gone and is nowhere near as popular as Facebook is today. But at one point, myspace was popular, valued highly, and considered to be the social media site. Why did Facebook change that? In addition to some clever advertising of their product to college students, the network effects played an important role. […]
Space Debris Clean Up and the Tragedy of the Commons
Space debris over 10cm in size have the potential to disintegrate entire space crafts, and more than 29,000 of these objects are currently in low Earth orbit. These objects pose a threat to the satellites within this orbit, essential for daily earth life, as well as spacecrafts traveling within range. While both national and private […]
Viral Marketing: Six Strategies for Success
http://webmarketingtoday.com/articles/viral-principles/ In this article the author describes “The Six Simple Principles of Viral Marketing.” The author defines viral marketing as a strategy that encourages individuals to pass on a marketing message to others. In turn, this creates the potential for exponential growth in the message’s exposure and ability to influence others. The author of this […]
Free to Play and the Tragedy of the Commons
Many new online multiplayer games are electing to use a free-to-play business model, where anyone can download and play the game for free. There are a variety of incentives for developers to do this; free games can more easily attract a larger user base (especially at launch) since there is low risk, they can be […]
Financial Crisis Model More Complex Than Information Cascades
The Financial Crisis of 2008 was one of the largest economic occurrences in history. During the Recession and for years after, scientists have closely studied and theorized the reasons behind the cause of this particular financial crisis, and of general crashing of financial markets everywhere. A very popular model that has been widely accepted based […]
MERS-CoV, South Korea, and the Tragedy of the Commons
During the summer of 2015, the Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome (or “MERS-CoV”) corona-virus spread to South Korea when an infected man traveled back to the country after visiting Saudi Arabia. Due to a myriad of circumstances, the disease had spread to a large majority of hospitals and ultimately led to approximately 17,000 citizens quarantined, 187 […]
Rich Get Richer as Google and Facebook Dominate Web Ads
The article speaks about online advertising now being run mainly by two big ad sellers, Facebook and Google. Smaller ad sellers such as YELP are suffering strongly as Facebook rises in stock by 18% and Google is up by about 24%. According to a recent report, online advertising will account for 35% of all advertising […]
“Smart” Nitrogen-Fixing Plants and Evolutionary Game Theory
This article discusses a new theory based on evolutionary game theory that aims to explain a long-standing mystery of why nitrogen-fixing plants grow where they do. Researchers have pondered the question of why nitrogen-fixing plants seem to struggle in ideal conditions while thriving in those that seem disadvantageous. Ecologists would assume that nitrogen-fixing plants would out-compete other plants […]
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