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Matching Idea and Money People
I have neglected this Social Technology blog lately, and feel guilty every time WordPress informs me that I have a new subscriber, someone who might be expecting new content. Welcome, and sorry for the delay. When I first started writing … Continue reading
Use of Subscribe2 plugin.
If you receive this blog post in an e-mail, it is because you are listed as one of the subscribers to the Social Technology blog at http://www.SocialTechnology.ca/ — until now, posts have not been mailed to subscribers because WordPress does … Continue reading
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Please See Diagrams Page
Anyone interested in the last couple of posts on my telecommunications/information-theoretic model of the social network and what it means for social technology should visit a page from my old site: http://www.SocialTechnology.ca/oldpages/diagrams.html. That page was one of many created by … Continue reading
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Social communications channel: distortion, noise and honesty.
I would like to encourage you to think of your friends and other social connections as channels through which information flows outward from you into the global social network as a whole, and from which information from the whole of … Continue reading
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Social Tech, Social Network Optimization, and Bandwidth
When I first started using the term ‘Social Technology‘ back in about 1993, it was an expression I had not heard before, though a rather obvious one. I seized upon it because I needed a replacement for the term I … Continue reading
A few new posts to come, now that socialtechnology.ca is back up.
Recently I had to regenerate this site from backup because it had been hacked. Since then I have gotten a few new user registrations from individuals whose email addresses look real. I am so used to spam registrations that I … Continue reading
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Recovering Hacked Site!
I have a put a lot of work into this site over the years. It was disappointing to see it hacked by people claiming to be Tunisian rebels. dpw
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Limiting Public Disclosure
If there is going to be a business venture based on advanced social technology, we must consider the question of public disclosure. If the venture is to be successful, not too much should be disclosed up front to the general public. Continue reading
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A Possible Business Venture
I would like to refer readers to a new post on the Facebook discussion group Advanced Social Technology for the Entrepreneur, called A Possible Business Venture. It may be seen at http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?topic=336&uid=125926210758491
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Invalid Comparison Algorithm Produces Bad Suggestions
StumbleUpon “Suggested People” or “People You Might Know” is not really useful because it is not normalized (in the mathematical sense). As it works now, you get suggestions about people who have something in common with you — because they have stumbled a lot and have lots of favorites. By the laws of chance someone with a vast number of favorites will share a lot of them with you. What you should see instead are people who have a lot of favorites that you have, relative to the total number they have. A comparison algorithm should try to predict the probability of the two people having similar page-favorite profiles, i.e. the probability they are actually alike and will like the same pages. Continue reading
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