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AKSOE: Arbeitskreis Physik sozio-ökonomischer Systeme
AKSOE 3: Dynamics of Groups and Organizations II
AKSOE 3.1: Talk
Monday, March 26, 2007, 14:00–14:30, H8
YouTube, don't you? — •Riley Crane and Didier Sornette — ETH Zürich, Chair of Entrepreneurial Risks, Zürich, Switzerland
Peering into the world of online social communities, we present a study of the dynamics of the number of downloads of videos on YouTube.com - a popular online destination for viewing, contributing, sharing, and discussing videos. We show how YouTube offers a unique probe into the dynamics of networks of viewers, characterized by scale-free distributions of statistics as well as power law memory kernels.