This twenty minute lecture is a tour-de-force. It is a flashy example of data visualization, but more importantly, it provides important insights about global poverty. Worth your time (after the over-the-top intro), in my opinion.
Well, I am ready to go for super tuesday. Please go vote, and vote for Obama!
If you want to help spread the love on facebook, please install this application that I’ve created:
http://apps.facebook.com/add.php?api_key=eced1babc5e972f996cceb31cfc1b44b
GObama!!!
Yahoo is shutting down it’s “picks” section. Although I have not visited that section in 8 years or so, I have a special place in my heart for it. I started visiting yahoo picks in the first few months after it opened its doors in 1995. For years, I have had this […]
I was asked by PARC to present again on the psychology of facebook. (Why do some applications go viral? You can read my speaking notes or watch this 1 min 52 sec screencast that is almost identical in content or grab the slides or handout.) But the main reason to reprise that post […]
I was just thinking about this issue as I read this post about how to get hired by Google. Then, along comes this terrific list of criteria is about screening for good tech hires. Hint: what you want is not printed on the resume. I am sad that the cat is out of […]
My friend Richard sent me this interesting link and email in response to my post yesterday:
[Intrade.com is] moving beyond prediction markets that try to determine who will win
the election, towards markets that predict the effect of someone
winning the election. In other words, markets that attempt to predict
the price of oil, interest rates, # troops […]
This article details how an application on facebook is helping to spread spyware called “Zango”. When I saw the headline, I was worried that this violation involved the features that facebook offers. But in fact, the spyware is just a link to install malicious code on your computer. It can only be […]
Here’s a link to the slides from the other presenters from our facebook expo. Lots of interesting ideas and data, even if it’s a little decontextualized without speakers’ notes.
Here’s a nice outline of raw notes of the 2hrs of demos that we presented yesterday. It may or may not make sense to you if you aren’t involved in the space, or if you didn’t actually attend the event.
One other note: Facebook changed it’s status function by removing the previously mandatory ‘is’. […]
Look ma! Someone decided to post a video of my presentation last night on a prominent facebook blog.
My Stanford class on facebook apps is wrapping up. As a class of 80 students, we created 40 or so applications that run within facebook’s social network. As of last night, more than 16 […]
This video conferencing technology is quite good. For some weird reason, iChat has been the only even slightly passable video chat technology. Skype kinda works, but it is too complex. Well, TokBox has had the simple idea of hosting video chat on a web site — and it seems to work pretty […]
I argue that (1) there is a hierarchy of identity, and (2) that engagement increases as you move up this hierarchy. Furthermore, (3) your identity has two distinct but interactive components: social and personal. These three claims suggest a framework that we can use to map activities, both from web 2.0 and the […]
This video simply captures silicon valley life for the past ten years perfectly. Hat tip to Madhu, Nat, and the others who bombarded me with it…now it’s my turn to be on the sending end of it.
Here_Comes_Another_Bubble_-_The_Richter_Scalesby kingofdoper
[I had to change the embedded video because YouTube took down the original version. It’s so […]
I’ve gotten intermittent errors from google over the years, and that’s somewhat startling. But youtube is just plain unavailable right now. At this moment, most video boxes on my site are missing since they are provided by youtube. Here’s an image of the cryptic error (”Http/1.1 Service Unavailable”) that I see when […]
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I am a grad student at Stanford University in the Communication Department and a founder of e-thePeople.org, a digital townhall. A longer, more self-indulgent bio.
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"...one of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought."
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