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A Tale of Two Facebook Apps: Viral Vs. Non-Viral Growth
For my SI 508 Networks class last semester I did an analysis of one of my Facebook applications, Notecentric. Notecentric was a social network that I had written during the Summer of ’06 and I had...
View ArticleOverheard in eCommerce Class…
Professor: So the Amazon.com auction is different. If an auction receives a bid within the last 10 minutes, the auction is extended for 10 minutes. So the auction ends when it is quiescent. Student:...
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University of Michigan Job Fair ’08 + Facebook!
Today and Yesterday were fun days since the engineering career fair was going on at north campus. Having started my own company (I’m the President!), I might not need to be looking at jobs this very...
View ArticleThe Costs of Internet Fame: SI Visiting Days 2009
So I met some cool prospective students (I call them n00bs) of the school I go to for the annual visiting days. It’s funny to talk to them because they’re pretty much in the same place I was two years...
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Ann Arbor Duck Graffiti
It’s been a while since I noticed this but I hadn’t written a blog post about it yet. All around Ann Arbor, you can find a distinctly unique signature of “Duck” written on stuff. From mailboxes to...
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I’m in Ur Universities, Graduating Ur Programs
At some point in the last week or two, I graduated from the University of Michigan School of Information with a Master’s of Science in Information. Yes, that last sentence was totally for SEO...
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The State of The Book (and Bookishness)
I attended a sorta all day symposium last Friday at the University of Michigan titled “Bookishness: The New Fate of Reading in the Digital Age.” While a lot went over my head (I am not as prolific a...
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Did Library School Change Me?
Looking back on my old posts from before I went to school at a hybrid Information/Library Science school, my opinions of librarians seemed fueled by a bit of prejudice. For example, in my visiting days...
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Thoughts on Textbooks on iBooks
I was thinking about the latest news from Apple, that they were partnering with textbook publishers to bring cheaper textbooks directly to the iPad while at the same time releasing an application for...
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