Popularity, Novelty and Attention

Submitted by ipublicis on Wed, 08/20/2008 - 13:46.

In a somewhat recent paper from Fang Wu and Bernardo A. Huberman (HP Laboratories) you can read a really interesting and "mathematically"-based exposition on the subject and how should website based businesses should react. Get it here

Also interesting are "Diversity of Online Community Activities" by Tad Hogg and Gabor Szabo which studies diversity among users and the content they create in the Essembly web site and "Friends and foes: Ideological social networking / Multiple relationship types in online communities and social networks" by Tad Hogg, Gabor Szabo, Dennis M. Wilkinson, and Michael J. Brzozowski which examines the usefulness of distinguishing between friends and similar/dissimilar users in propagating new content in an online social network, and suggests resulting design implications for social content aggregation services and recommender systems.