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Social Patterns
Optimizely AB Testing
I attended HackOTT yesterday. It was an amazing event. I had the pleasure of hang out with Edward of Shopify. He told me about Optimizely. This is an A B testing tool. This is an important aspect in the design of things as well as assessment of social patterns. AB testing is measuring success...
Your friends have more friends than you
On average, your friends have more friends than you do. This counter intuitive but generally true claim is known as the “friendship paradox”. I suggest two approaches to get your head wrapped around this one. You can work out some real cases if you have access to some social data or other graph data....
Rapid Meme Propagation: A Movement
Memes obviously find their way around but what does it take to be viral? According to this excellent TED video with Derek Sivers, there are a few important features of a “Movement”. 1) The meme must be easy to replicate. The less time it takes to copy or learn the meme, the more prone...
Social Routing diagrams
I think there’s a lot to learn from social interactions. I am writing an article on Social Routing and am developing some diagrams to show different aspects of it. In general networking Routing is is the way that things find paths through a network. So Social Routing refers to the paths in which information,...
The Lonely Guy — SNT Analysis for Singles
The Lonely Guy is a silly but Steve Martin movie (in my opinion). It was done in 1984 and is set in New York City Manhattan area. It’s also a great documentary of what not to do for any single person. Any person for that matter. :) Lack of constructive activities. He does things...
Social Media vs. Media in Ottawa Fire
Brian Gamble and his family of the Barrhaven section of Ottawa lost his house on December 18 due to a fire. You can read about it on CTV or the Citizen. I wonder how much support the family received directly due publication in traditional media. It so happens that I am a member of...
Unproductive facebook Memes
There is an interesting meme propagating the facebook community at the moment. People are changing their facebook profile picture to a cartoon in order to support a cause which is to stop violence against children. Hmmm, I’m not satisfied that changing your facebook picture makes much difference. Sure the meme will propagate and everyone...
Awareness, Flying Outhouses and such
I was having a ham sandwich while walking in the rain the other day in the early morning. I was noticing how busy people are (I so happened to have been about an hour ahead of schedule). I noticed that there was an outhouse flying above my head just as I arrived at my...
What is DemoCamp?
I just got back from an excellent DemoCamp in Toronto. It was Monday night and was organized by David Crow (co-founder of DemoCamp). I highly recommend this business social as it really has a lot of nice people and is a great way to see what’s up in your community. One thing I really enjoy...
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