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Barack Obama on Linkedin — The Unwisdom of Crowds

by Pete Abilla September 14, 2007

I’m not really a person interested in politics, but I have to say that I like Barack Obama’ style.  I don’t know much about his political beliefs or, really, any of the presidential candidates beliefs, but Obama’s style is pretty cool.   He asked a question on Linkedin Answers and, so far, there are 1459 responses.  [...]

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Digg as a Game: Part Deux

by Pete Abilla September 11, 2006

On Friday, September 8 2006, I wrote a post on how Game Theory can be applied to Digg. That same day, Alex dugg that article. This post is about the Digg effect that followed. As of this posting, the article has been dugg 724 times. I went from an an average of 680 unique visitors [...]

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Digg as a Game

by Pete Abilla September 8, 2006

Update: This article was dugg and made it to the Digg front page. The traffic came and I discuss the aftermath here.  Below is the voting chart for that story: +++++ Inspired by Greg’s insightful post, I thought I’d take a minute (or more) on explaining how Digg is a game. Elements of a Game [...]

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The Wisdom of Crowds

by Pete Abilla June 29, 2006

The book "The Wisdom of Crowds" by James Surowiecki explains how the aggregation of information in groups can result in outcomes better than if the decision was made by any single person in the group. He argues that there are 3 types of Crowd Wisdom: Cognition: Market judgment, which he argues can be much faster, [...]

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