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The Albatross Necklace 2.0
Place was the theme for the second issue of Scroll Magazine. This article was my first attempt at discussing Place and how it effects our lives. The article that was run was very different than this, but here it is in it’s original form in all it’s nonsensical glory.
Venn Diagrams as UI Tools
As we collect more and more data, we need ways to create complex queries to analyses it. The tools we have today started with a search box and haven’t improved much since. When combining boolean logic with search, a simple solution that falls out of the mix is the Venn diagram. This article is a look at the possibilities of developing a new GUI control to quickly and easily create advanced search queries.
Everybody votes!
As far as prediction markets go, you wouldn’t expect to find one in a video game console, but that’s exactly what Nintendo did in the Wii with the Everybody Votes Channel.
Maps with the road coloring problem
The road coloring problem builds an algorithm so that at any given point in the graph you can use the exact same set of instructions to get to the destination point. It is possible to model destinations within a city as nodes in a graph. So what would a road coloring look like for tourists and would it be useful?
Introduction to Prediction Markets
When you gather a suitably diverse group of people together, ask them a question and average their answers, the result tends to be more accurate than the result of any one person including experts. The implication of this, is that the crowd as a whole can make better informed judgements than traditional experts. There just needs to be an ideal way to extract those tiny bits of relative information from individuals in a consistent manner. Enter the prediction market.