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Reminder from the a2b3 weekly meeting Thursday January 12, 2006 11:45 am - 1:00 pm This event repeats every week. Event Location: Eastern Accents Notes: weekly meeting. location may change with some advance notice, but Eastern Accents is the default. ADVERTISEMENT

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FYI on another event that's going to happen
Thursday afternoon, this one on North Campus.
Lada Adamic spoke to a MOCHI meeting on
this same topic and presented some very
interesting data from a large anonymous
Internet retailer on transaction data resulting
from a refer-your-friend promotion.

thanks

Ed

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Date: Jan 4, 2006 1:48 PM
Subject: Lada Adamic at Jan 12 STIET Seminar
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STIET Seminar (Socio-Technical Infrastructure for Electronic Transactions)
Thursday, January 12
4-5:30 pm, 2906 Cooley Bldg

The Winter 2006 STIET Seminar Series will begin next Thursday with
Lada Adamic of the UM School of Information and takes place in 2906
Cooley, the Baer Conference Room. The Cooley Building is located on
north campus at 2355 Bonisteel, across the street where Bonisteel and
Beal meet. Follow the signs upstairs to the left.

The Dynamics of Viral Marketing

Lada Adamic, Assistant Professor of Information, UM



We present an analysis of a person-to-person recommendation network,
consisting of 4 million people who made 16 million recommendations on
half a million products. We observed the propagation of
recommendations and the cascade sizes, which can be explained by a
stochastic model. We then established how the recommendation network
grows over time and how effective it is from the viewpoint of the
sender and receiver of the recommendations. While on average
recommendations are not very effective at inducing purchases and do
not spread very far, there are product and pricing categories for
which viral marketing seems to be very effective. This is joint work
with Jure Leskovec from CMU and Bernardo Huberman from HP Labs.

Lada A. Adamic is an assistant professor in the School of Information.
Her research interests center on information dynamics in networks: how
information diffuses, how it can be found, and how it influences the
evolution of a network's structure. She worked previously in
Hewlett-Packard's Information Dynamics Lab on research projects
relating to networks constructed from large data sets. These projects
included mining the medical literature for gene-disease connections,
tracking and modeling information flow in E-mail and blog networks,
modeling search processes on real-world social networks, and building
expertise-finding systems.
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The University of Michigan

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hello bi bim bop crowd,

Lunch is on for tomorrow. No particular plans -
Rob Malan is out of town so he won't be there.

I'll be at Eastern Accents at 11:45 or so to grab
a table.

As always I plan to write up a little lunch summary
after we're done, so if you don't make it, you'll
at least get a little bit of what happened. I
have put a link to one of those here:



which really just links to the Yahoo Groups
archive. simplest thing that works for now.

thanks

Ed
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Reminder from the a2b3 weekly meeting Thursday January 12, 2006 11:45 am - 1:00 pm This event repeats every week. The next reminder for this event will be sent in 21 hours, 2 minutes. Event Location: Eastern Accents Notes: weekly meeting. location may change with some advance notice, but Eastern Accents is the default. ADVERTISEMENT

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On Thu, 5 Jan 2006, David C. Bloom wrote:

Boppers__ Ed asked me to send out a last minute Bopgram to the a2b3 list, reminding the faithful that he *will* be hosting a Bi Bim Bop lunch TODAY (Thu 1/5) at Eastern Accents (4th Ave, just N of Liberty in Ann Arbor). So if you can come on short notice, that would be great. __David

I would have liked to attend, but I had a recall clarity hearing scheduled for 12:45 pm today.

Footnote: The officer whose recall was sought was Milan city council member Timothy Gilbelyou, over an issue involving severance pay for the former police chief and city administrator, and we unanimously decided that the proposed reasons for recall were sufficiently clear. Besides the Election Commission itself and the county elections director, the only person attending was Chong Pyen of the Ann Arbor News.

A log of all Washtenaw County recall activity since 1/1/2005 (though not yet updated to show today's action) is at

Larry

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Lawrence Kestenbaum, polygon@...
Washtenaw County Clerk & Register of Deeds,
The Political Graveyard,
Polygon, the Dancing Bear,
P.O. Box 2563, Ann Arbor, MI 48106

I have been dying for what you call "Google Stacks" since the oooold
catalog was around. The obvious questions I can see are:

* What precision do you use? Section, row, case, shelf? Case is
probably the most practical.

* How do you present the data? A path from the entrance of the
library? A dot on a map? If it's just a dot, then a lot more
directional context will be necessary in the i

Technologically -- Flash? A PNG generated from a coordinate point or
XML? I'd go with the latter, but I'm just talking -- I've never worked
with the code.

* How can this be easily updated? It seems that collection management
enjoys moving things one or two shelves over every couple of months.
And when even one shelf is moved, the coordinate points for a hundred
or more books will need to be accurately transferred.

(um, is there a library mailing list this should be on?)

Matt

On 1/5/06, Edward Vielmetti <edward.vielmetti@...> wrote:

Sorry that more people did not get advanced notice - I did in fact
send something out via upcoming.org yesterday, but some snafu made it
not happen. I will try very hard to fix that for next week.

Attendees: Jose Nazario (jose@...), Dave Barnett
(dbarnett@...), John Blyberg (blybergj@...), Edward
Vielmetti (edward.vielmetti@...).

We talked mostly about library stuff. John is a network administrator
and coder and blogger at the AADL, and we talked about a bunch of
ideas on how the library catalog could be improved to be more
relevant. In no particular order some things that came up:

"Google Stacks" - the catalog tells you precisely where in the
building the books are, not just "second floor" but with a pinpoint
location on a map.

Microformats in the catalog - standards for doing markup within
catalog records and RSS feeds so that any application could do a
search or query and get back easy to parse results to reuse. This
would make applications like my library bookshelves at

easier to write and less reliant on screen-scraping to get their work
done.

Busy libraries - the Mallett's Creek branch has about 50% of its
materials checked out at any time, and if everyone returned all their
books and DVDs all at once the library would not have a place to store
them all.

thanks all

Ed





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Sorry that more people did not get advanced notice - I did in fact
send something out via upcoming.org yesterday, but some snafu made it
not happen. I will try very hard to fix that for next week.

Attendees: Jose Nazario (jose@...), Dave Barnett
(dbarnett@...), John Blyberg (blybergj@...), Edward
Vielmetti (edward.vielmetti@...).

We talked mostly about library stuff. John is a network administrator
and coder and blogger at the AADL, and we talked about a bunch of
ideas on how the library catalog could be improved to be more
relevant. In no particular order some things that came up:

"Google Stacks" - the catalog tells you precisely where in the
building the books are, not just "second floor" but with a pinpoint
location on a map.

Microformats in the catalog - standards for doing markup within
catalog records and RSS feeds so that any application could do a
search or query and get back easy to parse results to reuse. This
would make applications like my library bookshelves at

easier to write and less reliant on screen-scraping to get their work
done.

Busy libraries - the Mallett's Creek branch has about 50% of its
materials checked out at any time, and if everyone returned all their
books and DVDs all at once the library would not have a place to store
them all.

thanks all

Ed

Boppers__ Ed asked me to send out a last minute Bopgram to the a2b3 list,
reminding the faithful that he *will* be hosting a Bi Bim Bop lunch TODAY
(Thu 1/5) at Eastern Accents (4th Ave, just N of Liberty in Ann Arbor). So
if
you can come on short notice, that would be great. __David



__________________________________________
Yahoo! DSL ??? Something to write home about.
Just $16.99/mo. or less.
dsl.yahoo.com

I'll be there too. Happy holidays to those who can't make it ...

Joe

________________________

Joseph Cothrel
BTC Research
635 North Fifth Avenue
Ann Arbor, MI 48104
Voice 734.730.5957
Fax 734.527.6184
jcothrel@...

On Wed, 21 Dec 2005, Edward Vielmetti wrote:

This will be low key, I suspect, since
there are some number of people gone
on holiday.

we'll meet Thursday at Eastern Accents
for lunch, you're welcome to join in.

I plan to be there.

Larry

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Lawrence Kestenbaum, polygon@...
Washtenaw County Clerk & Register of Deeds,
The Political Graveyard,
Polygon, the Dancing Bear,
P.O. Box 2563, Ann Arbor, MI 48106

This will be low key, I suspect, since
there are some number of people gone
on holiday.

we'll meet Thursday at Eastern Accents
for lunch, you're welcome to join in.

thanks

Ed
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Edward Vielmetti in Ann Arbor, MI 48104
+1 734 276 5910

edward.vielmetti@...

Thanks to everyone who braved the snow
(we had 11 all told). There was too much
talked about to summarize. I'll try to just
type in a few of the notes I made.

Mike Finney (michaelfinney@...)
is CEO of SPARK and is charged with the
task of capturing some of the innovation in
the Ann Arbor area and turning it into
good and profitable companies. He asked
the question, "is this a good time to be a
software developer?"

Alan Guiterrez (thinknola@...) has
software patents on his mind and asked
"how do independents and inventors compete
with big companies with big and aggressive
patent portfolios?"

Lou Rosenfeld (lou@...) asks
"What does it mean to be a community organization
in 2005?" and in particular how can you do
things differently now than they might have been
done ten years ago.

Diane Durance (ddurance@...)
asks "if you're not on the IT Zone events mailing
list, let me know and I'll add you"

Matt Hampel (matt.hampel@...) is looking
at college next year - U of Michigan Engineering,
Cornell, RPI, and Michigan Tech. It looks likely that
the Neutral Zone will be moving downtown to the
place where Kolossus is now.

Jose Nazario (jose@...) is working at
Arbor Networks, notes that it just got ranked as
#9 on the Inc Magazine 500 list, and notes that
they are hiring for his team.

Joe Cothrel (cothrel@...) is working
as a consultant on projects involving building
communities online which range from economic
development in NE Ohio to mapping industry
networks in oil and gas.

Ron Suarez ()
is building a podcasting and media platform for
music labels.

David C. Bloom (dcb@...)
was full of words and ideas like he usually is,
and the one which i captured was "wikinomics" -
how to be an aggregator of information.

Kathy Brade (brade@...) showed
Alan her new browser tool Pearl Comments,
which puts comments on web pages right into
the browser.

Some more open questions from the table -

How does Ann Arbor capitalize on its diaspora?

Thanks all. One followup from this meeting is
something I'll pursue with Lou about helping
set some direction and gather some ideas for
community organizing. (My inclination would
be to do another open space event some
afternoon and see who shows up and what
comes of it - all we really need for that is a
time and a venue and a mailing list to invite
people to it.)

thanks

your list-keeper


Ed
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Edward Vielmetti in Ann Arbor, MI 48104
+1 734 276 5910

edward.vielmetti@...

Hey all -

The lunch is definitely on. See you noonish! I'll be coming
in on an AATA bus and I don't know if they are keeping to
their schedules today exactly but in a pinch I can walk.

thanks

Ed

On 12/15/05, Diane Durance <ddurance@...> wrote:

Ed,
Be sure to let us know if the lunch is on. I plan to walk over if you'll be
there.
Diane


-----Original Message-----
From: a2b3@... [mailto:a2b3@...] On Behalf Of
Edward
Vielmetti
Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2005 3:07 PM
To: a2b3@...
Subject: [a2b3] Re: 12/15 lunch plans: Michael Finney, Spark

Please note that there is a winter
storm watch for tomorrow, with some
considerable accumulations expected.



I'll send an update out tomorrow a.m.
with any details if plans change -
you never know with these storms
but as long as the restaurant is open,
I'm within walking (sledding? skiing?
distance of downtown).

thanks

Ed

On 12/12/05, Edward Vielmetti <edward.vielmetti@...> wrote:
> Please join us Thursday, 12/15, at Eastern
> Accents for lunch. Our special guest is Michael
> Finney, the new CEO of Ann Arbor SPARK.
> There's a brief introduction of Mike here:
>
>
>
> from Bob Guenzel, Washtanaw County
> Administrator.
>
> My plan for the day is to be in Kerrytown
> in the morning online and to head over
> to EA by about 11am; we'll try to start
> lunch at around 12 noon. If you want
> to stop in before but can't make lunch
> track me down by phone or look at
>
>
>
> to see where I am at the moment.
>
> thanks
>
> Ed
> --
> Edward Vielmetti in Ann Arbor, MI 48104
> +1 734 276 5910
>
> edward.vielmetti@...
>
>


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Ed,
Be sure to let us know if the lunch is on. I plan to walk over if you'll be
there.
Diane

grat restaurant in Garden City at there website listed under links

Please note that there is a winter
storm watch for tomorrow, with some
considerable accumulations expected.



I'll send an update out tomorrow a.m.
with any details if plans change -
you never know with these storms
but as long as the restaurant is open,
I'm within walking (sledding? skiing?
distance of downtown).

thanks

Ed

On 12/12/05, Edward Vielmetti <edward.vielmetti@...> wrote:

Please join us Thursday, 12/15, at Eastern
Accents for lunch. Our special guest is Michael
Finney, the new CEO of Ann Arbor SPARK.
There's a brief introduction of Mike here:



from Bob Guenzel, Washtanaw County
Administrator.

My plan for the day is to be in Kerrytown
in the morning online and to head over
to EA by about 11am; we'll try to start
lunch at around 12 noon. If you want
to stop in before but can't make lunch
track me down by phone or look at



to see where I am at the moment.

thanks

Ed
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Edward Vielmetti in Ann Arbor, MI 48104
+1 734 276 5910

edward.vielmetti@...

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Edward Vielmetti in Ann Arbor, MI 48104
+1 734 276 5910

edward.vielmetti@...

On Mon, 12 Dec 2005, Edward Vielmetti wrote:

Please join us Thursday, 12/15, at Eastern
Accents for lunch. Our special guest is Michael
Finney, the new CEO of Ann Arbor SPARK.
There's a brief introduction of Mike here:

Unfortunately, I won't be able to attend.

Starting at 11:30 am on Thursday, December 15, the Washtenaw County Election Commission (of which I am one-third) will be meeting, possibly for hours, to consider 26 sets of proposed reasons to remove certain public officials from office via petition drive and recall election.

The officials whose conduct is questioned are two members of the Milan city council, and the three top officials of Pittsfield Township.

Our job is to determine whether the proposed reasons are "clear" enough to satisfy the statute. We have already received several legal briefs on this, and expect to receive more.

This proceeding will not be televised, but it is a public meeting and will be held in the basement meeting room at 200 N. Main, in downtown Ann Arbor.

Larry

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Lawrence Kestenbaum, polygon@...
Washtenaw County Clerk & Register of Deeds,
The Political Graveyard,
Polygon, the Dancing Bear,
P.O. Box 2563, Ann Arbor, MI 48106

Please join us Thursday, 12/15, at Eastern
Accents for lunch. Our special guest is Michael
Finney, the new CEO of Ann Arbor SPARK.
There's a brief introduction of Mike here:



from Bob Guenzel, Washtanaw County
Administrator.

My plan for the day is to be in Kerrytown
in the morning online and to head over
to EA by about 11am; we'll try to start
lunch at around 12 noon. If you want
to stop in before but can't make lunch
track me down by phone or look at



to see where I am at the moment.

thanks

Ed
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Edward Vielmetti in Ann Arbor, MI 48104
+1 734 276 5910

edward.vielmetti@...