12 posts and columns on algorithms

Voices

So, What’s Your Algorithm?

in Voices on January 4 at 12:00 am PT

We are ruined by our own biases. When making decisions, we see what we want, ignore probabilities, and minimize risks that uproot our hopes.

New Digg CEO Calls Previous Launch "a Tragedy," Commits to Community

in Social on February 2, 2011 at 5:30 am PT

Five months after becoming CEO of Digg at a time of much turmoil, Matt Williams is finding a voice of his own, separate from founder Kevin Rose’s. Williams had what seemed to be a largely successful discussion with the Digg community, posted this week.

AOL Automates Its Story Factory. Does That Kill an Associated Content Deal?

in Media on November 30, 2009 at 4:45 am PT

AOL is cutting its payroll by one-third. Now comes its plan to make the remaining employees more productive: New technology that assigns and even edits stories automatically. That sounds an awful lot like Associated Content, a start-up that AOL CEO Tim Armstrong invested in–and considered buying–earlier this year.
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Google's MySpace Problem: Serving Irrelevant Ads

in News on July 3, 2008 at 10:27 am PT

The problem Google (GOOG) is having monetizing its inventory of News Corp.’s (NWS) MySpace pages may have more to do with faulty algorithms for ad serving than it does inherent issues with social networking sites.