Posted in analysis of behavior, economics, product development, software, tagged n-brain, collaboration, hydra, dragon, nbrain, code swarm, coding contest, open source on June 16, 2008 | No Comments »
This is a nice post today on visualizing the participation of users in popular open source projects.
Good lead in for the study I’m going to do on the upcoming N-Brain competition.
Posted in analysis of behavior, data mining, information theory, social networks, tagged collaboration, social network, lattice network, small world, problems on February 5, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Here’s a terse little paper and experiment showing some clean (easy to understand and rework) results.
DISCUSSION
Past research on the benefits of network structure on the flow of information has often focused on the positive properties of small-world networks [2, 3]. The results of our research cast this view in the wider perspective of fit between [...]
Posted in analysis of behavior, business strategy, jobs, social networks, tagged cipher, collaboration, decode, google groups, mystery job, n-brain, notpron, slashdot on December 24, 2007 | 6 Comments »
Summary (PDF of Draft Analysis)
What started for me as a typical “read Slashdot” for a minute has turned into a full blown research project into collaboration. The participation in solving the N-BRAIN Master Software Developer challenge delivered huge amounts of experiential as well as quantitative information regarding social collaboration on software projects.
This is a [...]
Posted in analysis of behavior, business strategy, data mining, jobs, tagged cipher, collaboration, decode, google groups, mystery job, n-brain, notpron, slashdot on December 23, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Man, whew! had a great last 18 hours DORKING OUT. i’ll admit it. i just participated in one of the biggest dorkouts ever. It’s relevant to business, behavior and media because it represents EXACTLY what is so crazy and different about doing business in a connected world.
Sometime around 10am PST this story hits slashdot.org:
http://developers.slashdot.org/developers/07/12/22/1746220.shtml
In this [...]
