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CommerceNet Workshop on Decentralized Commerce 20 June 2005 Wharton West, San Francisco co-sponsored by CommerceNet and Supernova The world of e-commerce today is dominated by centralized business models, blown up to immense proportions by the reduced friction and increased velocity of the Internet: the world’s largest bookstore, largest garage sale, largest music store, largest advertising […]
by Rohit Khare; see also Publications New kind of information space, the Personal Web. Two player economic model: user (god) spends attention on “stuff”; robot fetches and organizes stuff to maximize user-wealth within constraints on storage, bandwidth, and archiving requirements (such as ‘keep everything directly to or from me’). The robot can find other bots […]
Scenario Vicky, a vegetarian blogger, is a very controversial figure who is only avidly read by a small community of professionals and activists. Occasionally, though, she publishes a tasty recipe that gets widely syndicated around the Web. Ralph, a cook, only blogs about interesting recipes. He has a much broader audience because he test-cooks and […]
Applications What could you do with such a device? send email to other users of similar devices, as voice (perhaps encoded at 16 kilobits per second). essentially this lets you talk to friends and family even when they’re not nearby. send it over the Internet as well, perhaps using Bluetooth to a cellphone. keep notes […]
I was reading Dean and Ghemawat’s MapReduce paper this morning. It describes a way to write large-grain parallel programs to be executed on Google’s large clusters of computers in a simple functional style, in C++. It occurred to me that the system as described might be well-suited to computational cooperation between mutually untrusting entities, computation […]
by Kragen Sitaker; see also Publications Distributed posting list joins (aka inverted list intersections) are the biggest unsolved problem for a geographically-distributed full-text web-search engine (according to the Nutch FAQ, if I read it correctly, in the section entitled “Will Nutch be a distributed, P2P-based search engine?”). Here are some thoughts which I think include […]
EC’05-SSA (Sponsored Search Auctions) Workshop Notes These are Rohit Khare’s notes on the SSA Workshop; links to each of the papers can be found on the SSA Workshop Agenda Page. Pennock: History In the beginning: exact match, rank by bid price, pay per click, human editors – worked, if ad hoc. Today & tomorrow: AI […]
by Kragen Sitaker, Friday October 15; see also Publications (Detailed notes that supplement our notes on Google Desktop Search’s WinSock integration.) For Firefox, it looks like what goes over the wire has a < ! – – tro2 – – > in the appropriate place, which somewhere gets replaced by a < p class=e>< table …ID=”Google […]
Kevin Compton, star VC at Kleiner, Perkins, has invested personally in a venture more closely related to the NHL than EAI… Protrade appears to be a market that tracks prices set by the house, based on detailed models of “player performance” — the game (of skill) is to track that synthetic index, it seems. This […]
HedgeStreet has been running ads on the radio locally. A couple of people (Marty was the first) have told me that they’ve heard the ad on KCBS. I couldn’t find anything on HedgeStreet.com or on KCBS about it. (Don’t people ask broadcasters and advertisers about ads they’re running often enough to make it standard practice […]