analysis of social relations emphasizing communications and evolutionary psychology
Photosharing is growing rapidly. It’s a highly popular activity on social networks like Facebook. Pursuing photosharing makes sense as a “thin edge of the wedge” strategy for web startups attempting to build a social platform. But why is social photosharing so popular? Some reasons: Sharing photos is an easier way to communicate than sharing written … Continue reading communicating with photos
Relatively few U.S. telephone numbers have been ported from a wireline telephone service provider to a wireless telephone service provider. In the first half of 2009, 22.7% of U.S. households had only wireless (mobile) telephones. Another 14.7% of households received all or almost all calls on wireless phones. The U.S. has about 114 million households. … Continue reading relatively little wireline-to-wireless number porting
According to Nielsen data, the average number of text messages per month that U.S. mobile phone users sent and received exceeded the average number of voice calls sent and received in the second quarter of 2007. Since then, texting has continued to increase, while voice calls have continued to fall. Little disagreement exists about these … Continue reading U.S. mobile phone use
In Old Regime France, literary elites cruelly abused Grub Street hack writers even after their suicides. Bloggers should expect no better. … Read the post bloggers beware: learn from writers' suicides on Grub Street
The Internet allows humans anywhere around the globe to acquire the best available technical education and to use that education to pursue a wide variety of objectives on digital networks. One objective can be to build a great repository of human knowledge. Another objective can be to attack an organization and do great harm. The … Continue reading brain-power economics critical to cybersecurity