Has Tinder Become the Newest Mobile Game?
In the past, people hoped to find their significant other through casual conversations at the grocery store or through a slow, yet romantic “friendship” with a coworker at work. As technology became more advanced and a part of everyone’s daily routine, it also transformed the dating world. Instead of face-to-face conversations, “sliding into the DM’s” […]
iPhone XR and 5C’s relation to matching market
https://www.fool.com/investing/2018/09/15/3-reasons-apples-iphone-xr-wont-suffer-the-iphone.aspx In 2013, after the success in iPhone 5, Apple announced it’s new product iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c. This is the first time iPhone announced two iPhones together in one keynote event. 5c is designed to aiming for a lower market, and it’s about 100$ cheaper than the cheapest 5s. We can understand that […]
Matching Markets applied to the Refugee issue in Europe
https://wol.iza.org/uploads/articles/244/pdfs/can-market-mechanisms-solve-refugee-crisis.pdf https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/27/eu-migration-crisis-what-are-the-issues The paper I read is essentially a proposed solution the overcrowding of Refugees coming from the middle east into Europe. For this issue, I decided to do more information seeking about the problem, so therefore I also included a Guardian article related to refugees. Clearly the main issue that is affecting Europe is […]
Matching Markets, the new iPhones, and iOS 12
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/23/technology/personaltech/apple-iphone-xr-review.html These articles discuss the latest products that Apple has come out with: the iPhone XS, the iPhone XR, and iOS 12. The iPhone XS, Apple’s latest, most premium phone, goes for $1,000 and up and comes with all the bells and whistles, such as a fancy screen and a double lens camera system. The […]
Page Rank for Baidu
Baidu, as the largest and most widely-used search engine in China, doesn’t have a Pagerank System like Google does. However, in 2016, the company temporarily released a tool for SEOs, named “intimacy checker” (“度娘亲密度” in Chinese). With the tool, you can check how strong your websites stand in Baidu’s search result. According to Baidu’s official […]
Information Cascades and Revolutions
Articles: https://voxeu.org/article/riots-and-revolutions-digital-age https://www.wired.com/2016/01/social-media-made-the-arab-spring-but-couldnt-save-it/ From the Arab Spring to the fall of the Soviet Union, revolutions can take the world by storm. A collective effort by a significant population, a revolution must have to start from somewhere. How can we get a group of people to stand up and rise up against unfair regimes? As it […]
The Role of Information Cascades in Video Games
One subtle and surprisingly effective marketing strategy is “word of mouth.” In a Forbes article, Kimberly Whitler argues that word of mouth is the most important form of ‘social media,’ claiming that consumers trust word of mouth marketing “above all others.” Whitler goes on to describe three significant word of mouth case studies to illustrate […]
How Google’s Ad Rank Works
Google Ads is an online platform where advertisers pay to display brief overviews of their businesses, services, and products. There’s no doubt that Google, being the premier search engine of the world, receives a large amount of offers from a multitude of advertisers worldwide. So how exactly does Google’s Ads auction work? To shed some […]
China’s Own Search Engine
https://www.npr.org/2018/08/02/634827587/google-testing-a-censored-search-engine-just-for-china China’s government has always been very cautious with the information that is readily accessible to its citizens. With this is mind, Google is testing a mobile version of its own search engine, named “Dragonfly”, specifically following China’s censorship ideals. In 2010, Google removed its search engine in China, reporting that Google “could no longer […]
Structural Balance in the Social Networks of Hyraxes.
Researchers studying animal behavior have noticed that structural balance properties appear in not just humans, but also animals like wild rock hyraxes (also known as rock rabbits). We tend to think that more cognitively developed animals like primates or dolphins would be socially complex enough to have structural balance behavior. However, even rodent-like mammals such […]
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