- Computational Social Science (Nature) — Facebook and Twitter data drives social science analysis. (via Vaughan Bell)
- The Single Most Important Object in the Global Economy (Slate) — Companies like Ikea have literally designed products around pallets: Its “Bang” mug, notes Colin White in his book Strategic Management, has had three redesigns, each done not for aesthetics but to ensure that more mugs would fit on a pallet (not to mention in a customer’s cupboard). (via Boing Boing)
- Narco Ultralights (Wired) — it’s just a matter of time until there are no humans on the ultralights. Remote-controlled narcodrones can’t be far away.
- Shortcut Foo — a typing tutor for editors, photoshop, and the commandline, to build muscle memory of frequently-used keystrokes. Brilliant! (via Irene Ros)
"social science" entries
Four short links: 23 August 2012
Computational Social Science, Infrastructure Drives Design, Narcodrones Imminent, and Muscle Memory
Top Stories: August 15-19, 2011
The meat-to-math ratio, Chicago embraces open government, and data science influences social science.
This week on O'Reilly: We learned how smart companies apply the "meat-to-math ratio," Chicago's commitment to open data and open government was explored, and we looked at how data science is shaping social science.
Four short links: 22 June 2009
Decaying Friendships, Crowdsourced Cars, Aussie Gov 2.0, Zoomable Presentations
- Half of All Friends Replaced Every 7 Years — to put it another way, the half-life of friendship is 7 years. (via zephoria on delicious)
- Crowdsourced Car Design — an interesting approach, and I can imagine it being described as “threadless for cars”. (via timoreilly on Twitter)
- Australian Gov 2.0 Taskforce — The Aussies are getting their Gov 2.0 on. Check out Senator Kate Lundy’s Public Sphere event today got a lot of Twitter action.
- Prezi — sexy zoomable presentation creator. Keynote meets Ken Burns Effect on PCP. Nifty look from a Budapest-based startup.
Social Science Moves from Academia to the Corporation
This is the latest of a series of posts addressing questions regarding social technologies. Previous posts: The Evangelist Fallacy, Captivity of the Commons and The Digital Panopticon. These topics will be opened to live discussion in an upcoming webcast on May 27 with a special guest to be announced. In order to control a thing you must first classify a…