Data Sandbox

Accord­ing to the first state­ment on the page, ” Swivel is a place where curi­ous people explore all kinds of data.” Cool! Its is a col­lab­or­at­ive space in which people are free to share data and visu­al­iz­a­tions of that data that they have found inter­est­ing. This invites oth­ers to play with the same data and …

Social Lending — Empowerment?

Is this an up and com­ing phe­nom? Zopa and Prosper are two two star­tups offer­ing to bring together bor­row­ers and lenders and offer . The sense of ‘Sim­ness’ (as in simcity/sim this sim that) is an inter­est­ing note. … As the author of this sur­vey on these two ser­vices note, they even add fun to …

Mining Social Networks For Profit

Every­one knows that the value is in the net­work. SNA is a won­der­ful tool for aca­demic and I am using it to map my local webs of com­merce. The folks at Spoke how­ever are doing this one step bet­ter. They have the typ­ic­ally enorm­ous and touted list of key decision makers and influ­en­cers at companies …

Media Click Thru and ROI

I don’t nor­mally click thru for adverts and the like, but after wtch­ing an epis­ode of zeFrank today the pro­du­cer sof the movie The Last Kiss had clev­erly bought some space. Why did I click? Well, lately zeFrank’s been pretty enter­tain­ing and I figured why not sup­port the site. I am glad I did. The …