The recent Facebook/University of Milan small world study is an example of a topological study. Yahoo’s Small World Experiment, led by Duncan Watts and Sharad Goel, Principal and Senior Research Scientists at Yahoo (respectively), aims to...
For example, if you pop over to Google now and type "time in Milan, Italy," Google will provide a widget at the top that gives you the precise time. Oren Etzioni, a computer scientist at the University of Washington, has made a call for deeper...
Two of its users, Matthew Milan and Joseph Dee, even went as far as to create a "Quit Facebook Day" webpage, calling on all disgruntled users to pledge to leave Facebook on May 31st. The privacy issue ghost haunting online companies is once more...
Peter Fleitcher, on his personal blog, stated "I won't be attending my trial in Milan in person. The Associated Press reported that Italian prosecutors are seeking "six-month to a year sentences for four Google executives Wednesday over an Internet...
SES Milan took place yesterday and today, so if anyone attended that show, let me know and I'll link to any blog coverage, or feature it here. I didn't make the trip to Xiamen for SES China, though I was tempted by the thought of spending at least...
In another example, a search for [distance from Zurich Switzerland to Lake Como Italy] would lead Google to add a query for [train Milan Italy Zurich Switzerland]. While Google announced several things at its Searchology event Wednesday that will...
A user typing the query [pizza” from Chicago or Milan, at 11:00am or 9:00pm local time, doesn't expect the same results. These days, the most popular tech parlor game after guessing Google's IPO date is speculating what it will take to knock the...
