GotGame
GotGame is an up and coming social platform for gamers that is being developed with hopes of connecting gamers to each other–basically, it can be described as Facebook meets AIM for gamers. Now, because there is currently no other service like this in existence, the rate at which GotGame will diffuse amongst gamers […]

        These days, the major news in technology/media industry has been possible acquisition of Yahoo! by Microsoft Co.  It seemed like these two business moguls were very close to merging together as Microsoft pursued actively after Yahoo!  However, the Board of Directors of Yahoo did not accept Microsoft’s bid and the acquisition did not […]

Digital health records that are easily accessible by medical professionals and patients are slowly coming into existence. The network effect of this information sharing will lead to better tracking of medical conditions, better diagnosis by doctors who would have access to more complete information, and better patient self-care since they have more information about their […]

There are several articles relevant to this discussion:
GXC:
http://media.www.buchtelite.com/media/storage/paper1203/news/2008/04/17/News/Prepare.For.Invasion-3330728.shtml
http://maroon.uchicago.edu/online_edition/article/10130
WOW:
http://www.warcraftsocial.com/
http://us.blizzard.com/support/article.xml?articleId=20588
The two articles about Go Cross Campus (from now on referred to as GXC) discuss how the game is multi-player online game about using real world social networks. The game itself is described as Risk-like where all the players control a few armies, and the commanders (elected […]

As you probably all know, Wikipedia is the largest free-content encyclopedia on the Internet written by hundreds and thousands of contributors. In the beginning of March 2008, official article count for all Wikipedias reached 10 million.
What we are not always aware of when we are searching for Wikipedia articles to […]

The information cascades that we have discussed in class have been limited to those that are determined by the number of people who have developed an opinion. Each person looks at those that have expressed an opinion before them but can see only their expressed choice, not their private information. This makes for […]

The article distributed by Knowledge at Penn’s Wharton School, which investigates the popularity of these social networks, comparing them to a fad or fashion that will never last. The article discusses how users of these sites are always looking for the next best one, bouncing from site to site. […]

In class, we developed a model of information cascades where at any point, if an individual sees that the absolute value of the difference in the number of acceptances and number of rejections is greater than one, he/she simply follows the majority and initiates a cascade. However, it is clear that such a model is […]

“Network effect” is a term that is used to describe the characteristic of a certain good whose value to the buyer depends on how many other people use the product.
This term is often applied to the use of fax machines, the benefit of using one operating system over another, and the use of social networking […]

As a PC owner, I already consider myself a plebian in the society of Macs - but at least I’m not running Vista…right?
After the launch of Vista earlier this year was so ill-received, it is no surprise that many loyal PC users are banding together to try and save Windows XP. The now-outdated operating system […]