Posted in analysis of behavior, social networks, tagged Alda, behvior, christakis, conditioning, facebook, integration, learning, metaphors, myspace, parsimony, Rushkoff, social networks, value based on April 9, 2008 | No Comments »
Edge.com
Douglas Rushkoff
“Social Networks Are Like the Eye”
A Talk with Nicholas Christakis
I read with great interest – as usual – the Edge article by DOUGLAS RUSHKOFF: “Social Networks are like the Eye” – A Talk with Nicholas Christakis.
Certainly no shortage of the point and counterpoint logic on anyone’s part. Rushkoff and Alda both working [...]
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Posted in analysis of behavior, data mining, online advertising, social networks, tagged facebook, behavioral targeting, collective behavior, social networks, blink, influencers on March 23, 2008 | No Comments »
I received the following from a director of ad operations, Jeremy Jones, in response to yesterday’s post on collective behavior and the other day’s post on vertical media. His remarks focus on the confusion over social networking advertising (both selling and buying). I include the full remark here and an annotated remark below.
[Social networks/social [...]
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Posted in analysis of behavior, data mining, economics, health care, information theory, social networks, tagged christakis, edge.org, facebook, goldstein, myspace, obesity, social network on March 2, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Dr. Nicholas A. Christakis has an interesting piece on Edge.org right now. He’s also done some cool research on a variety of subjects with social networks as the focus.
Here I present a critique of his dialog on Edge.org. I eagerly await the actual publication of his Facebook.com-based research papers http://christakis.med.harvard.edu/pages/pubs/pub-sn_ihe.html. In the meantime I’ve researched [...]
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37,000 participants on Facebook during the live debates last night.
live polling
live blogging
email direct to campaign advisors
immediate reactions
raw videos from the event
videos from the location
The debates were lively and alive. Interactive and immersive. Ok, ok, so some of the political banter during the debate itself was the same ol’ schtick but this time we get to tell these campaign managers what we need NOW.
Pretty [...]
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Look, folks, there’s no such thing as privacy. Not on the internet, not in your home, not at work.
As long as you are connected, in any way, to others, you are tracked and counted and watched. It’s not always big brother. it’s not always a mean corporation. Sometimes it’s your friends, [...]
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