Monday, May 3, 2010

Lectures on Computational Advertising

Video lectures on Computational Advertisement by

Andrei Broder, Fellow and Vice President for Computational Advertising in Yahoo! Research



Computational Social Science promises to provide novel solutions to social and management sciences problems. Computer science studies has been emerged from traditional Information systems to novel complex problems. Computational advertisement is one of the most important field of study for all top IT organizations, including Microsoft, Yahoo, IBM and Google.


http://bangalore.yahoo.com/bigthinkers/video.php?eid=4&vid=16

http://bangalore.yahoo.com/bigthinkers/video.php?eid=4&vid=17

http://bangalore.yahoo.com/bigthinkers/video.php?eid=4&vid=18

http://bangalore.yahoo.com/bigthinkers/video.php?eid=4&vid=19

Saturday, May 1, 2010

The On-Click Behavior for Digital Marketing

Identification and modelling  of human behavior is always an interesting and important study since long time. Astrologers, palmists make their try to predict how an individual will behave and what move a person will take in future. Human physical aspects also considered important about the prediction of expected actions of individuals. These Bio-metric attributes consider shape of ears, forehead structures, walking style, gaze style and of course hand writing patterns also been studied a lot.



With the rapid growth of internet users till Dec 2009 ,1,802,330,457 people are using WWW i.e. 26% of the world population. The 53.5% of european uses internet and the growth rate of internet users is 305.1% in 2000-2001. However, in Asia People using WWW pages and leaving trajectories. The web pages on WWW  forum provide back links and forward links to move on. Through these links a user move on and back in pursuit of his
'interest'. Once a surfer found his/her interested content, image, video or discussion on a page he get stick with it.

Clicking on back/forward links depends upon certain liking and disliking of individuals. Therefore an individual made 'clicks' and out reach his desire material. 
Internet structure network, from the poster for Mathematics Awareness Month April 2004

A visualization of the network structure of the Internet by Hal Burch and Bill Cheswick, courtesy of Lumeta Corporation

An individual living in Manchester City is a fan of Manchester United, therefore, its quite simple to comprehend that why he visits so many times to view Facebook page of Manchester United. Secondly, he is expected to purchase tee shirts, shoes or other MU logo based sports wear. Moreover, not only that particular individual like MU he will also influence his (social networking FacebookTwitter) friends. It also depends upon his own position in his social context i.e. lets consider following is the friends network over twitter (who follow whom, here we have few nodes followed by a great number of followers. 

Figure 1: The social Ego-Networks of a Twitter-User


So if that MU fan is one of the most centric persons over twitter or face book, then its highly predictable that he is expected to influence others about his own favorite club.

Therefore, people having similar interests are found to click similar kinds of web sites, secondly, patterns could be found from browsing history of people having common interests.

On click and browsing patterns helps us to understand common behavior of individuals having common interests. Social network analysis plays significant role in identifying communities, important individuals and cliques which reflect common attitude and behavior. This outcome can be used to develop marketing strategies and the development of computational advertisement basis.