Alexander Williams

The recommendation systems that suggest books at Amazon and movies at Netflix will soon bring you personalized news

Don't underestimate the power of survival of the fittest.  And don't EVER make the mistake that you can design something better than what you get from ruthless massively parallel trial-and-error with a feedback cycle. That's giving your intelligence much too much credit.&am more...

An exploration of group-dynamic social effects.

Swarm shows you what websites people are visiting, right now. Swarm is a graphical map of hundreds of websites, all connecting to each other. It updates itself every second with where people are going and coming from. As sites become more...

Create abd tag colour schemes based on the intersection of images and tags.

Multiple means of normalization for tag storage

Academic reference tagging system for online resources.

Discussion of long tail relevance; the matrix of music sales to number of musical acts is enormous.

Weblogs link together in a complex structure through which new ideas and discourse can flow. Such a structure is ideal for the study of the propagation of information. In this paper we describe general categories of information epidemics and create more...

A bit too obsessed with facets and not thinking far enough about tags, but not bad.

This is a demonstration website for our recent research (here and here) on information dynamics in blogspace. You may type in a partial substring of a URL you would like to track. For example compare slow, long running memes like more...