I cannot but explode after what we experienced this last week in my country. A rash of fires, an unbelievably weak state response and neglect of duty resulted in: 64 people dead (and counting) more than 100 villages destroyed 1.4% of the Greek land area and about 10% of the Peloponnese peninsula burnt in 3-days …
how to build a fast Wikipedia offline readerby NTUA’s Software Engineering Laboratory, via Slashdot and Lifehacker
Open Coffee Athens meetings are now upgraded. Starting from September, on the first Tuesday of each month, 6 people get 5 minutes to show up something cool to the tech community of Athens (geeks, bloggers, entrepreneurs, investors, etc). All these after, in between of and before coffees, drinks and pure, real-world, social networking. The next …
Programming Collective Intelligence: a Machine Learning approach to Web 2.0 applications, by O’Reilly
The bees’ rules for decision-making are: seek a diversity of options, encourage a free competition among ideas, and use an effective mechanism to narrow choices National Geographic Magazine on Swarm Behavior and Collective Intelligence
Is There Wisdom in Crowds? – A New York Times Op-Ed article by Roger Cohenand an “open to the crowd” version
Freakonomics blog just moved to New York Timesbonus: prediction markets a separate category on their blogroll!
The Journal of Prediction Markets, Volume 1, Number 2 is out!
Call it Occam’s razor, minimization of information entropy, or just KISS principle. Call it ‘less is more’, usability or just common sense. The question is, are the currently available prediction markets web services compliant with the era of attention economics? Are we able to attract a critical mass of users, thereby surpassing the tipping point …