StumbleUpon is a webservice which allows users to surf interesting sites based on links it feeds users via a browser toolbar. While this is clearly not the same exercise as searching for websites based on content, it does provide users with a way to find relevant information about certain channels which are popular within some […]

While Google has successfully made a media empire selling text ads, Adwords certainly is not the final word on network-based advertisement delivery innovation. Their auction system provides a price based on pseudo-semantic value, rather than the value of the audience viewing the ad. Expanding upon the earlier post on social capital, the web could provide […]

Many of the networks discussed during the introductory phase of the class were ones in which the nodes represented humans, and the edges represented social ties. The Internet of Things is a neologism originally coined by Julian Bleeker, a media design and information science researcher, meaning both an environment in which everyday things are passively […]