Pennies from Hell?
Written on 15 Apr, 2009 at 7:14 in Featured Stories, User Stories | viewed times and users have made 0 comments so far
Some call it ‘entertainment shopping,’ to others it’s gambling; some even say it’s a scam. Welcome to the controversial world of ‘penny auctions’ like Swoopo, in reality a highly innovative web-business model, a ‘bidding fee scheme,’ which budding Web Ecologists... (Continue reading)
Web Ecologists wanted
Written on 13 Apr, 2009 at 23:24 in Featured Stories, User Stories | viewed times and users have made 0 comments so far
So far on Web Coherence we’ve been exploring many different phenomena. Web vigilantism, twitter clatter, the trail of online activity, and some of our earlier work on email spam exploration – that we still want you to perform, by the... (Continue reading)
Welcome to WebCoherence
Written on 7 Apr, 2009 at 6:10 in Featured Stories, Web Creatures | viewed times and users have made 0 comments so far
The Web is an exciting place. Crazy things happen there. Don’t take my word for it – find out for yourself. The Internet is a chaotic system, populated by millions of users, each with unique purposes and priorities. Out of... (Continue reading)
Web Vigilantes
Written on 7 Apr, 2009 at 6:10 in Featured Stories, Web Creatures | viewed times and users have made 2 comments so far
I don’t want to give readers the impression that coherent behaviour is only about commerce. Here is an example of how a digital photograph taken on mobile phone and then loaded onto the Internet focused the attention on an entire... (Continue reading)
When Social Networks become a Nuisance
Written on 7 Apr, 2009 at 6:08 in Featured Stories, Social Networks | viewed times and users have made 4 comments so far
I’ve just logged off Facebook, having wasted nearly forty-five minutes. There were 27 requests asking to be my friend, but I knew less than about half of them. I can’t imagine why the other half would want to be my... (Continue reading)
Your Web sins will find you out!
Written on 7 Apr, 2009 at 6:06 in Featured Stories, Others | viewed times and users have made 3 comments so far
The Daily Mail headline screams out “Girls at Risk.” Apparently young girls are being incited by friends to post provocative pictures of themselves on Facebook, Bebo, MySpace etc., … because it’s cool! What are these silly adolescents thinking? They are... (Continue reading)
The ‘Digital Bounty Hunter’
Written on 7 Apr, 2009 at 6:03 in Featured Stories, Others | viewed times and users have made 0 comments so far
When we set up the Web Coherence blog the idea was not only to observe coherent behaviour on the Internet, but also to propose the creation of new creatures. We start with the mix of the internet and the mobile... (Continue reading)
Twitter ‘Spam’
Written on 6 Apr, 2009 at 7:03 in Featured Stories, Twitter | viewed times and users have made 1 comment so far
I’ve just received a uniquely personalized email from a marketing company that is trying to sell me a product that increases my blog’s visibility by attracting more readers, and I am outraged! Why so? It’s just another piece of marketing... (Continue reading)
Addicted to the Web
Written on 2 Apr, 2009 at 12:24 in Featured Stories, Others | viewed times and users have made 0 comments so far
Many real-world behaviours have found their way onto the Web. People with various addictive personality traits are being drawn to the Web like moths to a flame. A 15-year-old Swedish boy collapsed with epileptic seizures after a marathon 15-hour World... (Continue reading)
Profiling: a creature of the shadows
Written on 1 Apr, 2009 at 6:37 in Featured Stories, Profiling | viewed times and users have made 0 comments so far
Another creature lurking in the shadows of the Internet ecosystem is Profiling. Profiling can involve expert systems, neural networks, statistical analysis, Fourier Analysis etc. No matter what the sophistication of the underlying approach, profiling software always falls into two separate... (Continue reading)
