[Sketchy guy from high school] added you as a friend on Facebook. We need to confirm that you know [sketchy guy from high school] in order for you to be friends on Facebook. Confirm, or ignore?
Eric Gilbert and Karrie Karahalios presented the largest regression analysis at CHI, and it was focused on just this situation. [...]
Moira Burke at al. from facebook studied what led new users to post more over time—in terms of feedback from those how saw their posts, how broadly they were distributed, etc. They counted what happened over someone’s first two weeks on facebook and predicted what would happen over the next 3 months. They considered variables [...]
Posted a little less than a year ago (the video was uploaded May 05, 2008), this entertaining video has gotten over 5,000,000 plays and looks like a great viral video. It’s got quite a bit of appeal as we watch vaguely athletic 20-somethings jump (and land) in pairs of jeans in interesting ways. [...]
Today I got a call from a job recruiter who had found my phone number on a public web site at MIT. I cut him off early: “Thanks, but I’m not going to be graduating for several more years, and I’m not currently looking for employment.” Goodbye.
Or not. “No, actually–”, he jumped in, “I’m not [...]
With the advent of Google Latitude last week, more eyes have been on location-sharing tools, like recently deceased Dodgeball and fully Twitter integrated Brightkite. Latitude offers particpants the option to share their location by setting it manually or by letting Latitude detect it (which doesn’t seem to be quite right yet), using iGoogle or Google [...]
Georgia Koutrika et al. from Stanford built a system called “Courserank”—a place to evaluate courses. It has been used by 98% of freshman at Stanford. In addition to just picking courses, it offers a number of interesting social features. It’s planner page lets students enter their entire plan for all years in school, classes and [...]
I’m at the 2009 Conference on Innovative Database Research, an interesting workshop that tries to fit its name by taking work that’s a little too “innovative” for the regular database conferences.
The opening plenary talk is by Jefffrey Heer (built the flare UI toolkit, now a professor at Stanford) on how data analysis can be a [...]
Did you notice the little icons near you google search results this morning (at least if you were logged on your google account when you did the search). They are SearchWiki icons. This way, if you like or a result, you can promote it, so that it will always show in 1st position when you [...]
In a recent bout of interest in ‘personal information management,’ I’ve been thinking about and talking to people about the way we stay organized and on top of things. Some people like GTD, others use google gcal/gmail/etc, others use post-its, and a whole host of people don’t record this information at all. Instead, they do [...]
This post about ISWC got lost in the drafts pile, so I’m publishing it a bit late.
The folks from Tagora spoke about the relationships between different tags that get applied to the same document, and the tags that different people apply to the same documents. The looked at the ternary relation (user, resource, tag) and [...]