Posted in analysis of behavior, data mining, decision theory, economics, grid computing, information theory, social networks, tagged collective behavior, yahoo research, evolutionary biology, animal behavior, ant colony on March 22, 2008 | 1 Comment »
There’s a remarkable feature on Edge.org. I point it out because it’s robust dialogue about collective behavior. In particular, the discussion is decidedly not casual agentish, mind-body dualist nor monocasual. Dr. Couzin is refreshing! His approach ties very well to analysis of media (collective behavior!) (Read his other stuff like this essay, too!)
how can a [...]
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How convenient! Slashdot had a lead post about Google ad patents and these patents are all about behavioral targeting.
19. The computer-implemented method of claim 18 wherein actions of the user monitored are selected from a group of user actions consisting of (a) cursor positioning, (b) cursor dwell time, (c) document item selection, (d) user eye [...]
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Today a little bit of a spat broke out about Federated Media and Glam.
John Battelle wanted to make a general statement when specific ones can easily be made. Most of these vertical ad networks and vertical ad plays stink. They aren’t good (or any better than anything else). They aren’t special for the user, the [...]
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