If the nineteenth century French sociologist Gustav Le Bon were alive today, he’d probably be running a wildly successful viral marketing firm. Alas, Le Bon was a hundred years ahead of his time. In his influential work, “The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind,” Le Bon argues that, “the opinions and beliefs of... »
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This is Viral
Wednesday, June 19th, 2013
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Daniel Reeves is a co-founder of Beeminder and Sharad Goel is a Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research - New York City. They are both former members of the Microeconomics and Social Systems (MESS) Group at Yahoo! Research. Kelly Savage illustrates the blog.
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