http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/02/business/02view.html
“How a Bubble Stayed Under the Radar”
–New York Times 
 
If the price of a good drastically strays from its inherent value, while buyers are buying and sellers are selling at considerably high levels, the market is most likely experiencing an economic bubble. This behavior is no different from the recent housing bubble, in which the market’s […]

Ofcom (Office of Communications) published their findings on the emergence of social networking sites in Britain. I was amazed to find how quickly social networking sites are catching on, especially among the 8-17 year old audience. Almost half of the children who have access to the Internet have their own social networking profile, while only […]

If you wanted to synchronize your watch with all your friends and all of you did not have access to a universal time source, how would you proceed?  The first step would probably be figuring out a method in which to communicate with all of your friends in order to relay the exact time displayed […]

BBC article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7370956.stm
The Internet faces a couple of significant hurdles as technology and its popularity sprint towards the future: the first is the amount of traffic across it, which has exploded in recent years; the second is the omnipresent debate about network neutrality. The two issues are intricately related, but both demand a solution, and […]

 The article below discusses the general importance of network effects for many businesses and how it can be dangerous to rely on such a phenomenon because it can be very difficult to come by. What I found interesting was a small comment saying how Google’s success did not rely on network effects, but rather an […]

Background Information: The degree of separation in a network is equal to the average length of the shortest path between pairs of nodes. Extracting the degrees of separation for a large network is computationally demanding. The computation involves averaging the degrees of separation of each individual node in the network. Thus, the time required to […]

This BBC video describes the situation of identity theft by the social networks we create via Facebook. As we all know Facebook is filled with many applications to keep in touch, pass the time or procrastinate with; but something we probably never think about is the chance of becoming a victim of identity theft by […]

There are few fields that reveal the power of networking than in business. Without a network of referrals or contacts, it’s difficult to make headway into a new industry, especially when the industry is filled with established businesses. With a bit of help from someone who plays golf with the CEO of a […]

In my last blog, I investigated the time taken for a giant component to develop in a social network.In that experiment, when the largest component contained the majority of people in the population, I stopped the simulation and recorded the time taken. If I were to continue the simulation, we’ll observe that the giant component […]

Oracle of Baseball (http://www.baseball-reference.com/oracle/) uses a database of every MLB player to track how “connected” different players are to each other. It attempts to link two different players using common teammates. For example, I could type in Cy Young and C.C. Sabathia (the 2007 AL Cy Young Award winner) and I will be […]