more heterogeneous the community of an online chat channel, the more chances the channel has to survive over time. This has been concluded in a new joint study carried out by researchers of the University of Haifa and the New Jersey Institute of Technology. “This study has shown that an essentially social characteristic significantly influences the survival chances of an online community,” says Dr. Daphne Raban of the University of Haifa who took part in the study.

The study, headed by Dr. Quentin Jones of the New Jersey Institute of Technology with Dr. Mihai Moldovan of NJIT and Dr. Raban, aimed to examine what factors could best predict the chances of an online community to survive over time. Researchers have previously claimed that there are too many variables influencing the survival or demise of such channels and that there is therefore no way of testing it, and earlier studies have primarily focused on group size and activity.

The current study included an analysis of social characteristics, such as the group’s homogeneity and heterogeneity. A group is considered homogeneous when its member turnover is small – namely, when the members who established the group are still the main members after some time. A group is considered heterogeneous when it has turnover and new members are continuously joining it.

A sample 282 chat channels all “born” on the same month was used for survival analysis which explored the relationship between the overall user activity in each channel at its inception and the channel’s life expectancy. The researchers carried out the survival analysis over the course of six months after “birth”. A chat channel was considered “born” when at least three members had exchanged at least four messages in 20 minutes. It was considered “dead” when it had zero activity for four weeks.

The researchers observed the influences of variables at four points of time: two hours after “birth”; on the channel’s first day of activity; over its first week of activity; and over its first two weeks of activity.

Results show that the variable that best predicts the chances of a community to survive is its level of heterogeneity: the greater the member turnover, the higher the chances that the group will sustain itself over time.

On the other hand, the number of members and the number of actual message posters do not predict the chances of survival.

According to the current study, another reliable predictor is the number of messages that are posted between members of an online community. This number does not have much significance over the first two hours of the group’s existence, but the higher the number of messages between members over the following three time phases, the higher the chances of the community’s survival over time.

The study also revealed that if the ratio between the number of messages and the number of members in a group remains the same after two weeks of the community’s activity, the chances of “death” are higher, while an irregular ratio predicts survival. It should be noted that neither an increasing ratio of messages between members nor a decreasing ratio were found to influence the chances of survival.

“The present study shows that prediction of an online community’s survival chances cannot be based on quantitative data relating to the size of the group or even to its growth rate alone. A social predictor, on the other hand, can much better predict its chances,” concludes Dr. Raban.

Waste of Money – Study Fail

Facebook nor Twitter have a focus on chatting abilities. In fact, I do not use the Facebook or the Twitter 3rd party chatting software.

AOL, MySpace. PlanetOut and other dying or dead services have had chatting as a major element of their branding.  By the results of this study AOL should be on top.  AOL was all about chatting, it was the mother of all chatting.

This just shows you that technical studies are completely worthless.  Technology is ever changing and slowly users are moving towards simplicity, anonymous and productivity as their focus in tech uses.

Most users will be moving towards a cloud environment which will allow for social interactions, but on an more lineal level.  Collaboration, business and real family/friends connections are going to be more important than shared interests.

Chat rooms had served their purpose.  The most chat room users are:

• Sub Culture
• Health Specific Support
• Technical

The sub cultures, especially the gay/lesbian community have made chatting and online communities second to the geeks.  Before the 1990’s if you were gay/lesbian you had to move to the big city meccas to find love, friendship and support. If you didn’t move you turned online for a connection, sex and finding love – all behind a white keyboard.  As the global mankind moves towards a more intellectual understanding and acceptance gay meccas have died (read more . . .).

People can live anywhere in the world (except Vatican City, small sections of the Caribbean and Africa) including small town USA openly and honestly.  Which means that those chat rooms have served their purpose and now it is about building a local community.  It is about being part of a community, not specifically limited to a sexual preference. Barbecues are no longer limited heterosexuals– now neighborhoods are slowly filling with the rich diversity and strengthening the economic and social moral fibers.

The geeks still have a strong claim on chat rooms, but the focus has changed.  It still is about sharing information, but that has moved into dynamic information via forums and groups.  Chat rooms have been slowly converting into media commentary.   Television programs, Live podcast and radio now have simultaneously chat room commenting (good, bad and riffs) throughout the program.  Most of the chat rooms continue conversation long after the program is over.  But these are enhancing chat rooms.  These are there to further the entertainment factor whether is be a healthy debate or more information, NOT to develop a social network.

The internet has opened up a whole new meaning to medical support.  Those with any medical concern or issue can find a group online.  Although, I wonder if it is helpful and positive as we think?  I find that when I faced a serious medical issue – I turned to the online support groups.  I actually found them downers.  For every positive message there was an overwhelming responses in negative.  It became a venting session rather than a support group.  I decided to not ever turn to a medical support group online ever again.   I needed a human hug and information — not other people’s baggage. Seriously, medical issue chat rooms bad!

But through all my chatting software, updates and social networking . . . nothing beats a real-life interaction. Nothing.

The novelty of chat rooms will slowly wean away and leave users who have no desire to join the human race. The pale skin users will to continue to hide behind a keyboard and partake in virtual hugs, sex and companionship.

Please don’t let it be you.  If you have to have an online chat, do it as your local coffee shop and every once in awhile — buy someone a cup. It might be me.Similar Posts:

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Free Trial, No Thanks
In honor of the 33rd anniversary of OpenVMS, STORServer offers free trial license of robust Archive Backup Client (ABC) software for OpenVMS. (read more . . . )

Lower, Lower
According to IDC, the lower prices brought on by last year’s challenging economy will create new opportunities for emerging types of PCs, such as ultrathin portables and all-in-one desktops. Lower prices means users will buy more. (read more . . .)

Not the iPhone, iTouch or iTampon
Gowalla Announces Gowalla for Android and Teams with Travel Channel (read more . . .)

iTampon Issues?
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HTML5
R U Ready? (read more . . .)

You Can Visit, Virtually Only
The US treasury department has eased sanctions on Iran, Cuba and Sudan to help further the use of web services and support opposition groups.  (read more . . .)

IT Finishing School
Because everyone knows a geek is the meanest type of human-being, ever.  (read more . . .)

Microsoft Heads for the Cloud
Among the enhancements over previous editions are beefed up video and image processing tools that let users edit photos and videos from within their Office documents, and new collaboration capabilities that allow multiple users to access and edit a single document over the Web. Did you try to share with MS Office online is totally confusing? If Microsoft starts to use the Cloud — does that mean the price for services are going up? (read more . . .)

100 mbps
Shiny! (read more . . .)

140 Character Ooops
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Xbox Live Changes
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Need a Byte to Eat
Open Source Restaurant (read more . . .)

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The above video uses ‘Everyday Looper“! This app is a pretty basic multi-track recording app that uses the iPhone’s mic to layer sounds on top of each other.

To be noted : This app is all about recording. No pre-recorded samples are included and iPod Touch users will need on external microphone.

The developer Mancing Dolecules  offer these details:

• A “no button” user interface. Tap or swipe on displayed waveforms to play / pause / stop / record / change volume / erase.
• Auto-normalization of each track to reach their maximum non clipped volume by the swipe of a finger.
• Master Limiter to not worry about clipping after tracks mixing.
• Metronome track generator to create a X clicks at Y BPMs base track.
• Quantized to loop recording, as an option.
• Load/Save your loops. Auto-save between sessions.
• Export them to your computer over WiFi.
• Up to 45 seconds of recording for each track.

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Romopolis (download . . .)
Rome wasn’t built in a day, but you can sure try in this historic time management game. Construct an idyllic ancient Roman city with plenty of houses and keep your residents happy by providing all the services they need. You’ll be rewarded with money, fame and honor. It’s up to you how to play – you can work your way to the top in the comprehensive campaign mode with 24 scenarios or you can create and play your own custom scenarios. Play Romopolis now!

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Kenneth Grahame (author of Wind in the Willows) and George Eastman (founder of Kodak) were originally bank clerks. They both died in 1932.

Quotes of the Day

“ My work is done. Why wait?” George Eastman

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Game Fly (link . . .)
GameFly is the leading online video game rental service. With a choice of more than 7,000 titles, GameFly delivers the widest selection and availability of games for the Playstation 3, Playstation 2, PSP, Xbox 360, Xbox, Wii, GameCube, Nintendo DS and GameBoy Advance without the hassle of due dates or late fees.

For $22.95 a month, GameFly members can rent two games at a time and keep them for as long as they like. Members manage their GameQ online and receive games directly from the US Postal Service via first class mail. Currently all games ship from our Los Angeles, CA; Pittsburgh, PA; Tampa, FL and Austin, TX facilities. GameFly is also the best source for high quality, used video games at exceptional prices.

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The origin of baseball has been the subject of debate and controversy for decades. The first references to baseball are Rev Thomas Wilson’s writings from 1672 or 1700 (accounts vary), in which he expressed his distaste for people indulging in “morris dancing, cudgel-playing, baseball and cricketts” on a Sunday. But historians believe he meant stoolball rather than baseball. Stoolball is known to have been played by the eleventh century, and is often regarded as the ancestor of baseball, rounders, and cricket.

• Stoolbal
• Rounders
• Welsh Baseball

American baseball predates Welsh baseball, which was distinguished from rounders in 1892. Which means baseball is as American as Apple and Microsoft.

Baseball Fever has begun. Spring training has started and regular season is only one month away.  Here are online sources to enhance the season.

Scorecards

There are two types of fans: those who keep score and those who do not. Scoring a baseball game with paper and pencil is a dying tradition. Keeping score is a great way to get more involved as a fan and to make a great memento of all the baseball games you’ve attended.

To get started you need to pick a scorecard that fits your personality and attention to detail. I prefer a pitch count scorecard, which means each pitch requires scorekeeping. It helps keep the game moving prevents my attention from wavering.

• Baseball Scorecard (http://tinyurl.com/ttscorecards)
• Microsoft Templates (http://tinyurl.com/ycztt3y)

You need to learn the basics of scoring. After you get the basics down, start adding your own style to keep track of scores. There isn’t a wrong or right way to do it. The trick is to find a system that will help you easily keep track of the progress of a game. Scorecards are like snowflakes; no two are alike. Most fans utilize creativity and score with their own symbols and styles.

• MLB Scoring
• YouTube
• Wikipedia

I personally like watching sports with as little technology as possible.  But if you have a technology addiction bring your gadget to the games and use one of these:

• Hitting Tracker (http://tinyurl.com/ttbhtracker) – iPhone/iTouch
• iBatStats (http://tinyurl.com/ttiBatStats) – iPhone/iTouch
• iScore (http://tinyurl.com/ttiscore) – iPhone/iTouch
• Pointstreak K-ForCE (http://tinyurl.com/ttPointstreak) – iPhone/iTouch
• ScoreKeeper Baseball (http://tinyurl.com/ttscorekeeper) – iPhone/iTouch
• ScorePad (http://tinyurl.com/ttscorepad) – Palm OS
• Fixed It! (http://www.fixedit.com/) – Palm OS/PC/Windows Mobile/Pocket PC
• Stat Trak (http://tinyurl.com/ttbbstattrak) – PC
• ScorePAD (http://tinyurl.com/ttspad) – Palm OS

Fantasy Baseball

“If you ever get a chance to buy a baseball team, do so. It’s very fun.” ~Ted Turner
Fantasy baseball is a game where players manage imaginary baseball teams based on the real-life performance of baseball players, and compete against one another using those players’ statistics to score points. It is the oldest form of fantasy sports and one of the most difficult and time-intensive due to the 162-game season of the MLB and the inconsistency of players.

Most leagues have monetary reward for the best season; the most expensive fantasy baseball leagues have been rumored to be over $100,000.  But most games that are available to most computer users are under $10,000, but you have to invest a bit to join and pay for any transaction.

There is a fantasy baseball magazine “Fanball Magazine” (http://tinyurl.com/ttfanball) which keeps fantasy players updated and assists in transactions.

Here is a list of a few places to play fantasy baseball:

• ESPN (http://games.espn.go.com/frontpage/baseball)
• MLB (http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/fantasy/index.jsp)
• Yahoo (http://baseball.fantasysports.yahoo.com/)
• CBS Sports (http://fantasynews.cbssports.com/fantasybaseball)
• Head 2 Head (http://www.head2head.com/)
• Big Game (http://www.fantasybaseballbiggame.com/)
• Sporting News (http://fantasysource.sportingnews.com/)
• Baseball Manager (http://www.baseballmanager.com/)

Watch Local Baseball Games

Northland College (http://www.northlandcollegesports.com/)
Northland College has both a softball and baseball team.  Northland BB and SB season starts this month in Florida with home games starting early April.

You can get the sport calendar imported your personal calendar (http://www.northlandcollegesports.com/calendar.aspx) and keep up with txt messages, rss feeds and newsletters.

Northland Baseball Season Preview

This season will be the second year under head coach Andy Ham.  The Husson University alum and former Siena Heights assistant hopes for big things this season. “I am very excited for the upcoming season. I saw a lot of good things during Fall ball and I expect great things from the new players, as well as the returners. This year’s team will have more depth than in years past and we should see an improvement from last year.”

Northland will look to improve on their fifth place finish from a year ago. The 13 wins last season were the most since the 2005-06 season, but wasn’t good enough for the UMAC post season.

This years pitching staff has some depth with returners and newcomers. Senior Bryce Szymanski (Pequot Lakes, Minn.) has been the team’s most consistent pitcher over the past three seasons.

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Northland Softball Season Preview

Meshing a solid base of returners with newcomers who will be counted on to contribute will be the key to success for the 2010 LumberJill softball team. Three of the four infield positions as well as catcher feature returning starters, led by All Conference senior Asia DeVlaeminck at first base. The LumberJills also return experience in the circle with All Conference senior Brittany Schmitt, who picked up 12 UMAC wins last season.

(Read More . . . )

Upper 13 League

(http://www.leaguelineup.com/upper13)

Organized In 1948 For The Promotion of Baseball in North-Central Wisconsin “Baseball For Your Pleasure”. The Upper 13 League is a member of the Wisconsin Baseball Association.

Upper 13 League has two divisions. Both Ashland C&S Design and Ashland Merchants play their home games on Pufall Field (Hodgkins Park).

The league increased its schedule from 12 to 13 games and divided into two divisions as a result of expanding from seven to 10 teams. Teams will now face intra-divisional rivals twice and inter-divisional rivals once each season. The split is according to geography; the teams in the East Division are Ashland C&S Design, Ashland Merchants, Iron City, Marenisco, and North Shore. The teams in the West Division are Bayside, Oulu, Port Wing, Proctor, and Superior.

The league East vs. West All-Star Game will be played July 14 at 7:00 p.m. in Ashland, WI.

See you at the games. I will be the geek with a scorecard.

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Go on a hidden object adventure into the dark underworld of the paranormal. You work for Department 42, a secret organization devoted to investigating paranormal events and protecting the world from black magic. As your first assignment, you must track down 9 evil artifacts with insidious powers. Search strange scenes to collect clues, and use the items you find to further your investigation. Play 20 challenging puzzles to piece together the evidence and find the 9 before it’s too late! Play Department 42: The Mystery of the Nine today!

Facts of the Day

Eric Arthur Blair (1903-1950), better known as George Orwell, was born in Bengal, where his father was a government opium agent.

Quotes of the Day

“Liberty is telling people what they do not want to hear.” George Orwell

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Web Copyright Crackdown On the Way
Finally. (read more . . . )

iTampon Delay
April 3rd . . . that is 2 days after April Fools. MMM (read more . . .)

How to Get a Goodie Bag
The wrong way. (read more . . .)

Why Verizon Has Fastest Network
Windows Mobile OS is too slow to use, which means everyone else get the speed. (read more . . .)

Pro: No Real Need to Have Saturday Delivery of Mail
Con: I want my Netflix!!! (read more . . .)

Wait . . . Didn’t The US Invent the Internet?
So, why do other countries do it better, faster and cheaper? Where is my Supernet? (read more . . .)

Most Patriotic OS, Ever
Actually pretty cool.  (read more . . .)

Olympic Spirit Dead
“Police will have powers to enter private homes and seize posters, and will be able to stop people carrying non-sponsor items to sporting events.” Sad, London, very sad. (read more . . .)

Free?
Yes, Free! But again, you can get any audio book through a public library.  Duh. (read more . . .)

Good News: Tivo UP
Saw-it-Coming bad news: Palm down. (read more . . .)

Pretty in Pink
No, not really. (read more . . .)

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The above video uses ‘Everyday Looper“! This app is a pretty basic multi-track recording app that uses the iPhone’s mic to layer sounds on top of each other.

To be noted : This app is all about recording. No pre-recorded samples are included and iPod Touch users will need on external microphone.

The developer Mancing Dolecules  offer these details:

• A “no button” user interface. Tap or swipe on displayed waveforms to play / pause / stop / record / change volume / erase.
• Auto-normalization of each track to reach their maximum non clipped volume by the swipe of a finger.
• Master Limiter to not worry about clipping after tracks mixing.
• Metronome track generator to create a X clicks at Y BPMs base track.
• Quantized to loop recording, as an option.
• Load/Save your loops. Auto-save between sessions.
• Export them to your computer over WiFi.
• Up to 45 seconds of recording for each track.

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Star Wars Plush Sale Price: $9.99 Regular Price: $19.99 ach one is officially licensed by Lucasfilm and crafted by only the finest plush-clone engineers Kamino has to offer. They are huggable and throwable and small enough to hide in a back pack or on your desk. Chewie even has a functional pouch on his bandolier! SD Plush Dimensions Darth Vader – approx. 7.5″ tall Yoda – approx 7″ tall Chewie – approx 7.5″ tall (with working bandolier pouch!) R2-D2 – approx 6.5″ tall Boba Fett – approx 9.5″ tall (to tip of antenna)

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Help Alex navigate a bustling urban landscape as she frantically searches for her former bandmates and tries to convince them to enter the upcoming Battle of the Bands. Track down their lost equipment, interact with intriguing characters, and use all of your problem solving skills to get the band back together and make it big!

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Facts of the Day

A survey in 1976 found that a third of British students had never heard of DNA, and that two-thirds had no idea it was a double helix. By 1988, 80% of the interviewees were able to answer quite sophisticated questions about genetics, but two thirds of them thought that radioactive milk can be made safe by boiling.

Quotes of the Day

“I’m one of those people you hate because of genetics. It’s the truth.” Brad Pitt

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Second Life (link . . .)
A virtual world developed by Linden Lab that launched on June 23, 2003 and is accessible via the Internet.

A free client program called the Second Life Viewer[1] enables its users, called Residents, to interact with each other through avatars. Residents can explore, meet other residents, socialize, participate in individual and group activities, and create and trade virtual property and services with one another, or travel throughout the world (which residents refer to as “the grid”).

Second Life is for people aged 18 and over.

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Tech News

Ubuntu New Branding
It’s  fresh and beautiful. (read more . . . )

Ubuntu Q & A
Reponse to the lack of Linux games, “gaming is a weakness on Linux, but addressing that is not a priority for Canonical. Games developers will make their decisions based on their market dynamics and those dynamics are pointing more and more towards dedicated consoles rather than the general PC market.” (read more . . .)

Firefox 3-D
A group of researchers plans to release a version of the Firefox browser that includes the built-in ability to view 3D graphics. They’ve integrated real-time ray tracing technology, called RT Fact, into Firefox and Webkit. Images are described using XML3D, and the browser can natively render the 3D scene. (read more . . .)

Writing on Eggshell
Seriously. (read more . . .)

Mac Games???
Seriously.  Wondering if this reflects the growing Apple users?  Microsoft pricing fail is slowly unveiling itself.
(read more . . .)

Toyoat Hybrid Isn’t So Much a Hybrid
It’s more like the electronic air freshner, “Plug-ins”. (read more . . .)

Problem: Computer Viruses
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