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The Anatomy of a Forgotten Social Network | MIT Technology Review
“Approximately 3/4 of the first reblogs occur within the first hour and 95.84 percent appear within one day,” they say. By contrast, on twitter about half of retweeting occurs within an hour and 75 percent within a day, they say. “Tumblr is more vibrant and faster,” say the Yahoo researchers.This work provides a useful snapshot […]
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Should Google and Amazon be allowed to control domains? ??? Tech News and Analysis
via gigaom.com “ICANN ??? otherwise known as the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, which used to be a U.S. government-funded agency but is now a non-profit managed by a variety of industry stakeholders ??? decided last year that it …
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How DARPA uses Mechanical Turk to Translate Social Media – The Mechanical Turk Blog
DARPA produces software that translates thousands of Arabic documents every day using their own state of the art machine translation technology. But as communication shifts from written documents (which tend to follow formal Arabic grammar convent…
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Why Facebook’s Network Effects are Overrated :: Copyrighteous
A lot of people interested in free software, and user autonomy and network services are very worried about Facebook. Folks are worried for the same reason that so many investors are interested: the networks effects brought by hundreds of millions …
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Is Facebook Worth It? – Technology Review
via technologyreview.com “So you could think of Facebook this way: it is worth about $116 for every user it has. On that basis, the company isn’t being valued as highly as Google ($200 per user) or even the question-and-answer service Quora ($145)…
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Just how big are porn sites? | ExtremeTech
via extremetech.com “At peak time, YouPorn serves 4000 pages per second, equating to burst traffic in the region of 100 gigabytes per second, or 800Gbps. This is equivalent to transferring more than 10 dual-layer DVDs every second. On the software…