Organic Search engine is the future here ?

In the past week I had the opportunity to visit some friends at the Media Labs at MIT.  In speaking with them I proposed a new paradigm in search that of using social communities as a means to search in a more meaningful way.  What I mean is that if you were to build a [...]

Social Evangelist the New Holy Grail of Online Advertising

We are hearing that the new gold mine of the online world is the social graph.  Ok, but what do we want to do with it and how do we even get access to it?  There is a purchase cycle of Awareness, Consideration and Purchase, (you can find the details on my linkedin page in [...]

Online Audiance Measures is Comscore, Neilson and Quantcast the Right Direction ?

There is a real issue this days and a lot of talk about online advertising and its effectiveness in actual sales.  Along with the discussion on the method of advertising i.e. banner ads (low effectiveness if any) adwords (medium effectiveness) and now social media marketing (effectiveness TBD) is how do you show value and what [...]

Social Media

We have seen the growth of the social network market dramatically over the last few years.  With it we now see that a social network is more than a web page.  In fact the people that participate on the network had added value to product or killed them if their influence is over a large [...]

Networks Communities and Creativity where does it start

If one were to hop in a time machine and set it to 1955 or so and location Greenwich Village NY you would be in the midst of the start of a significant creative movement in literature, art and music.  With people who said things like this The only people for me are the mad [...]

Google winner takes all

Hey everyone I hope that you have had a pleasant summer and are ready to get back to the world of technology.  I wanted to write a quick response to the new browser that has just come out from Google.  First of all in their own style the user guide is a 38 page comic [...]

degree degree degree is getting hot in here??

One of the most popular aspects of networks is this notion of degrees.  Now there is a few ways to look at the degrees the most popular aspect is the degrees of separation.  The popular history behind this starts with Stanley Milgram http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Milgram and his small world experiment http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_world_experiment .   The original history starts with [...]

Does Traditional Finance really Matter?

Given the new developments in network theory and complexity analysis of large datasets, does the traditional analysis of financial data matter.  When we look at data collected at companies it represents a action that has taken place in the past and now we are forcasting that something may or may not occur because of it.  [...]

Who ever has the most links when he dies wins??

Myspace has around 120 million active profiles linking to the site  and facebook has around 110 million links to the site.  Now we have google, google will tell you that they have indexed about 60% of the know web, which is about 6 billion web sites. ( i need to make a correction here given [...]

Why Googles network is the most important asset

Everyone thinks that search is the most important asset google has but it isn’t heck they license their page rank algorithm from Stanford in an exclusive agreement only until 2011.  Well I think the Stanford endowment is about to get a bump.  Now as I started in my last post a free scale network has [...]