Sorin Adam Matei
Analysis, research, maps, and essays from Sorin Adam Matei.
The Exponent – Purdues Student Newspaper Most people are frustrated they are not getting enough from their cell phones and they want more, according to Sorin Matei, associate professor of communications. Enter Android, an open-source operating system for mobile phones recently unveiled…
Papers Written by Googlers Human-Computer Interaction 21 “Express yourself” / “Stay together”: The middle-class Indian family, Jonathan Donner, Nimmi Rangaswamy, Molly Wright Steenson, Carolyn Wei, Handbook of Mobile Communication Studies, 2008 to appear. Applying a User-Centered Metric to Identify Active Blogs, Adam…
Submitted by Robert N. Yale on October 15, 2007 to the On-line Interaction and Facilitation Seminar, Fall 2007, Purdue University, Dr. Sorin A. Matei via the I Think Blog (http://www.matei.org/ithink). Abstract This essay posits that virtual communities are successful to the degree…
While Google keeps marching on, danger looms. Google closed the week at $637.39, more than 50 times its earnings, giving it a market capitalization that nearly equals the total value of the three largest traditional media companies: Time Warner, Walt Disney and…
Hitwise, the leading online competitive intelligence service, today announced that Google accounted for 63.98 percent of all US searches in the four weeks ending September 1, 2007. read more | digg story
Cosmic Log : Google funds $30 million moon prize Google is bankrolling a $30 million race for privately funded moon rovers – an endeavor that takes the X Prize to new heights. The Google Lunar X Prize, announced today by the search-engine…
In the net neutrality debate Google is ready to concede these rights to the opposition (cable industry): # Prioritizing all applications of a certain general type, such as streaming video; # Managing their networks to, for example, block certain traffic based on…
Right, academic papers can make billions. Here is a sample. Brin and Page’s technical report on a PageRanking method for determining web content relevance. In other words the “secret algorithm” behind Google’s success. The PageRank Citation Ranking: Bringing Order to the Web.
The Pew Internet and American Life poll on Wikipedia use highlights the obvious: Wikipedia is the most consulted reference website. It dwarfs everthing else. It even took over NY TIMES, as per this HITWISE CHART. It is at the same time driven…
Google’s been strongly opposed to the whole pay-as-you-go revamping of the Internet (the equivalent of introducing toll-lanes ofn the Internet). You know, the whole net neutrality debate. At the same time, Google seems to suggest that its opposition is only pro forma.…
Young dog trainer Zak George, posts a little starry-eyed manifesto about the role of You Tube in changing our future (and in the process the past gets changed, as well). Since its posting last week the clip has been seen by 350,000…
A very interesting “blog of blogs” demonstrating the power of the Internet to decentralize and recreate the flows of information. A blog that centralizes the known source of local information from Iraq and the middle east. Mostly in English. Why the quotation…
Just like everything organic or that takes on a life of its own, at some point your online community is going to die. In his book Design for Community, Powazek provides five reasons why communities end and how to handle breaking the…
Silicon Valley Sleuth: Google steps up anti-Google campaign
The Purdue website has a very poor search engine. Our class project could have a better search engine on it that could serve the students in a more efficient manor. An embedded Google search engine could be a possible idea. The link…
Thinking about the concept of group-mind in class today, made me think about Wikipedia – which is founded in part on the idea that one can gather knowledge from the many rather than being limited to a few individuals as sources of…
Spaceaware is a research project I started a couple of years ago, which looks at how people make sense of information delivery experiences similar to the “hailing billboard” scene in Minority Report. (Remember the scene in which Tom Cruise is greeted by…
Follwing up on his smart Weekly Standard article , Andrew Keen posts on this blog, The Great Seduction, a very thoughtful comment on the Google-China debacle. The lack of guilt (doubled by an excess of guile) associated with how the cybergiant treated…
Google Chief Rejects Pressuring China – New York Times BEIJING, April 12 — Google’s chief executive, Eric E. Schmidt, whose company has been sharply criticized for complying with Chinese censorship, said on Wednesday that the company had not lobbied to change the…
For many, the democratic and liberatory promise of the internet lies in the potential to allow collaboration, interaction, and exchange of information, ideas, and resources at a scale not otherwise possible (or at least, not highly probable) in a simple offline world.…
Giant website gobbler Google is on a rampage. The latest member of the collective is Writely… Writely – The Web Word Processor The Web Word Processor …that’s now part of Google. · Share documents instantly & collaborate real-time. Pick exactly who can…
The US vs. Google lawsuit is looming. At first sight the issue at stake is the US government’s right to demand US media companies to provide data about the aggregated habits of US consumers. In the background, the issue seems to be…