Redballoon
A recent article about a subject we’ve blogged about last year serves as a reminder for newcomers that Buysiders already has some 18 months of content “hidden” in the back pages. So how to go about searching Buysiders’s archives for the material you’re interested in?
DARPA, the US military agency that 40 years ago spawned the Internet, organized a contest to study how people collaborate online and, most importantly, how information spreads virally through social media tools such as Facebook and Twitter. The winning team took less than 9 hours to locate 10 balloons spread throughout the US – unthinkable maybe even 5 years ago… And the implications are quite interesting.
