en-us https://www.intensedebate.com/users/299724 Comments by utkuazman http://lee218.blogspot.com/2009/03/korea-is-naverland.html#IDComment16147141 Google is trying to improve its search products by adapting to local differences in places such as Japan, Korea and China. They do this by employing local engineers that understand the cultural issues. Yet, it is interesting to see that Google hasn't been very successful in catching up with the local players. I'm not sure exactly why. Wed, 4 Mar 2009 09:21:15 +0000 http://lee218.blogspot.com/2009/03/korea-is-naverland.html#IDComment16147141 http://polinainclass.tumblr.com/post/82505055#IDComment16146993 To deal with the cyclicality of comments, you can create a simple post like a cartoon mid-week and put a link to your latest blog (which you wrote on Sunday :) ). This worked for me! Wed, 4 Mar 2009 09:13:09 +0000 http://polinainclass.tumblr.com/post/82505055#IDComment16146993 http://dangu.tumblr.com/post/82979807#IDComment16146942 Let' see if the security threats will force FB to change its philosophy of keeping the platform open and letting users and app developers to do almost whatever they want. Maybe FB can install mechanisms by which users control the quality (and safety) of applications. Wed, 4 Mar 2009 09:09:12 +0000 http://dangu.tumblr.com/post/82979807#IDComment16146942 http://till2009.tumblr.com/post/83260186#IDComment16146843 One of my friends started a small party planning business and she first started advertising it among her friends on Facebook. She said that she is getting business from friends of friends through word of mouth. I guess this is one way to leverage social networks... Wed, 4 Mar 2009 09:03:54 +0000 http://till2009.tumblr.com/post/83260186#IDComment16146843 http://emclbs.blogspot.com/2009/03/google-pushing-it-too-far.html#IDComment16146738 I don't think this is very different than their existing model in web search. When you do a search you don't see sites created by Google. Yet if you click on a link next to the search results, Google will not share the revenue with the sites that came up in the search results. This all goes back to the last click attribution model that was mentioned in the last lecture. Wed, 4 Mar 2009 08:58:42 +0000 http://emclbs.blogspot.com/2009/03/google-pushing-it-too-far.html#IDComment16146738 http://fcrettenand.tumblr.com/post/81049274#IDComment15894500 They even have an attractiveness scale from 0 to 10 for both males and females Fri, 27 Feb 2009 21:45:24 +0000 http://fcrettenand.tumblr.com/post/81049274#IDComment15894500 http://fcrettenand.tumblr.com/post/81049274#IDComment15879810 Some researchers at UCL are developing a technology that can classify objects within a picture automatically. (e.g. convertable BMW, man 18-25 yrs old, attractive woman, etc...). Fri, 27 Feb 2009 18:34:57 +0000 http://fcrettenand.tumblr.com/post/81049274#IDComment15879810 http://utkuazman.tumblr.com/post/81064035#IDComment15879228 According to Google analytics, it worked on 7 people that clicked on the link and went on to read my previous post (10% conversion rate)... I need to find a new one for next week :-) Fri, 27 Feb 2009 18:17:21 +0000 http://utkuazman.tumblr.com/post/81064035#IDComment15879228 http://dangu.tumblr.com/post/80901230#IDComment15879056 They must be using smart ways of choosing articles... Maybe matching to content on the web page or at least showing articles that receive more clicks more often Fri, 27 Feb 2009 18:11:46 +0000 http://dangu.tumblr.com/post/80901230#IDComment15879056 http://convergencetrend.tumblr.com/post/80907083#IDComment15878850 Microsoft's surface technology could be used for interactive restaurant applications. In the case of Inamo (see blacksheep link above), they appear to have used a different technology Fri, 27 Feb 2009 18:06:01 +0000 http://convergencetrend.tumblr.com/post/80907083#IDComment15878850 http://davexpc.blogspot.com/2009/02/what-can-i-sell-online.html#IDComment15633778 wow, great find! Perhaps this model can be expanded to different areas. Imagine a micro-management model (analogy to micro-finance) where online collaborative capabilities are combined with physical actions and ownership to run a business. When would this make sense? Hmmmm, I will research to see if there are any such ideas out there. Sun, 22 Feb 2009 13:44:11 +0000 http://davexpc.blogspot.com/2009/02/what-can-i-sell-online.html#IDComment15633778 http://saumisms.tumblr.com/post/79699209#IDComment15633488 Lessons learned from the PC market show that attracting application developers is key in getting your platform to dominate. iPhone was able to do this simply because it was the only smartphone that was easy and fun to use with online services. This may no longer be true with Android and Palm Pre. To combat iPhone's popularity, Android is putting less restrictions on the application developers (similar to Windows on PCs) and Palm Pre is making developing applications easier technically (great support for web-based applications). I'm not sure how much more can Apple bank on the appeal of the iPhone to keep their ecosystem relatively closed. Sun, 22 Feb 2009 13:30:07 +0000 http://saumisms.tumblr.com/post/79699209#IDComment15633488 http://venkatesh.tumblr.com/post/80110265#IDComment15633354 next-gen Telepresence is very impressive! I used telepresence-like video-conferences in my summer internship on a daily basis. It was great and much more practical than I thought it would be! The system contributed greatly to my team's productivity. Sun, 22 Feb 2009 13:22:20 +0000 http://venkatesh.tumblr.com/post/80110265#IDComment15633354 http://dimitriosk.tumblr.com/post/80261354#IDComment15633157 The idea about consumer shift towards new media is interesting. I have seen statistics that clearly show the ongoing increase in amount of time people spend online, but I never thought of where that extra-time comes from... maybe socializing less in the physical world (going to movies could be a part of this) Sun, 22 Feb 2009 13:15:44 +0000 http://dimitriosk.tumblr.com/post/80261354#IDComment15633157 http://lee218.blogspot.com/2009/02/top-10-korean-websites.html#IDComment15632866 It is interesting to see that social "networking" sites popular around the world (facebook, myspace, twitter,...) do not appear in the list. Any cultural reasons that may explain this? Sun, 22 Feb 2009 13:01:27 +0000 http://lee218.blogspot.com/2009/02/top-10-korean-websites.html#IDComment15632866 http://johnwheeler.tumblr.com/post/80453836#IDComment15632661 This sounds like the typical "Innovator's Dilemma"... If a company is too stuck with their current customers and their needs, they're unlikely to be successful when a disruptive technology hits their market. In that sense, it is good that MS is experimenting with new technologies even though there isn't a proven market for it. Sun, 22 Feb 2009 12:51:22 +0000 http://johnwheeler.tumblr.com/post/80453836#IDComment15632661 http://fcrettenand.tumblr.com/post/77146699#IDComment15266314 These malicious motives may also hinder innovation. Google must have axed many potential functions in Latitude for the fear of them being abused by ill-intentioned people. I'm sure their engineers thought of many other uses of location based data, which didn't make it to the final app :-). Sun, 15 Feb 2009 15:28:31 +0000 http://fcrettenand.tumblr.com/post/77146699#IDComment15266314 http://polinainclass.tumblr.com/post/75358668#IDComment15264362 Wow! I like the idea about tracking career paths because there appears to be evolving trends in the recruiting policies of popular companies. I haven't used LinkedIn much, is it an open platform? Does it have APIs that allow for apps to track such trends at a large scale? Sun, 15 Feb 2009 13:44:28 +0000 http://polinainclass.tumblr.com/post/75358668#IDComment15264362 http://polinainclass.tumblr.com/post/77035732#IDComment15264239 Remember how Google Trends is used to determine flu-outbreaks? Setting aside the issue of usage volume, I wonder if Twitter presents a better way to predict or track real-time trends. The difference between the two is interesting... In Google trends, you observe people's behavior in looking for published knowledge. Whereas in Twitter, you can see what knowledge is created in real-time. It's like comparing leading vs. lagging indicators or a combination thereof. Sun, 15 Feb 2009 13:33:41 +0000 http://polinainclass.tumblr.com/post/77035732#IDComment15264239 http://hamishs.tumblr.com/post/77204616#IDComment15263957 Better targeted ads create a win-win-win situation, right? Consumers see more relevant ads, advertisers get more return on advertising and platform providers (Google,...) get mo' money with increased usage! Of course, it is not possible to do this without changing people's "perception" of privacy. . ISPs track (and sometimes sell) every little detail about their customers' online usage (in some anonymized way perhaps). This is an example of why privacy as we're used to in the offline world doesn't really exist online. However, we still get freaked out when we see a computer generated ad in Gmail that is too relevant... It is really about the perception of privacy. Sun, 15 Feb 2009 13:09:07 +0000 http://hamishs.tumblr.com/post/77204616#IDComment15263957