Saturday, September 8, 2012

Temporary Post for CART 351

Due to a computer failure, I'm going to temporarily update here for CART 361 until I can get my site situation back under control.

"How Does the Network Effect You?"


Plan: Make a randomly generated network that simulates the transmission of an action from node to node.

Inspiration: On Facebook there are items that require a "like" (or some other release of personal information) in order to perform an action (See quizes like What Superhero Are you?). As a byproduct of this action, this same item will pop up on all the friends' Facebook pages and entice them to action. What causes these to work? What benefit do they get?

Do we know how much seeing the same item over and over can change our views if those items are connected to people with influence? Who are the true influencers anyway?

My response is a cryptic game, where you can play any way you'd like, but can you keep your large node blue while turning all the others red?

EDIT: Having issues with host removing ftp service. :( Not happy.

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