analysis of social relations emphasizing communications and evolutionary psychology
From: Blog Carnival Message Forwarder Reply-to: ZZZZ To: Douglas Galbi Subject: Fwd: Your Uncle ZZZZ Your Uncle ZZZZ from YYYY says Hello, would like to get in touch with you. Hope you’re doing well. Planning a trip to D.C. in the fall. Would enjoy having you visit me on the farm for a few days. … Continue reading identity authentication protocols
Digital objects typically persist just as long as the virtual world around them. Digital space can double every year or two with advances in digital hardware. Creative users acting in a virtual world can make it a lonely place: More and more empty houses and castles and the like are lovingly constructed as monuments that … Continue reading worlds without decay and congestion
Dogs and cats are probably more important than Second Life to the future of the internet. While major media have hyped Second Life, the number of concurrent online users of Second Life rose above 20,000 for the first time on December, 29, 2006 (oddly, “peak concurrency” reportedly was 25,000 about a week later). The CEO … Continue reading social networking success
Most blog posts did not include any links. A recent study selected 44,362 blogs in a way biased toward finding linked posts. Among all 2.2 million posts in those blogs in August and September of 2005, 98% of the posts had no incoming or outgoing links.[1] This isn’t a matter of A-List bloggers exclusivity or … Continue reading unsocial non-networks
User-to-user recommendations within a large online retailer’s recommendation system generated a very small share of sales. With keen business sense (see Netflix) and with praiseworthy regard for the common intellectual good, this retailer allowed some experts to analyze freely a large database of its users’ recommendations and to publish publicly their analysis. The database includes … Continue reading systematized personal recommendations