Hi there!
As experiment in social data, we will use ustream today’s class, allowing people from both within the classroom and from the outside to participate in real time and ask questions.
Please go to ustream.tv/channel/social-data-revolution, sign in with your twitter username and comment. The recording will also be available afterward class, as well as the mp3s and their transcripts of all the classes.

Ustream time line Stats 252, June 1, 2009 (Pacific Daylight Time)

1415 PART 1
Twitter Hack-a-Thon feedback (Chris Anderson, Emile Chamoun, Carlin Eng)
Prediction Markets status (Ron Chung)
Berkley - Stanford contest status (Matt Jones)
Yobo.com optional homework (Shaun Maguire, from Beijing)

1445 PART 2
Monetization at FIM: Hypertargeting and Beyond (John Carnahan, Chief Scientist, Fox Interactive)

1535 BREAK

1600 PART 3
Insights and Main Take-Aways from This Year’s Stats 252 (Andreas Weigend)
Participate on ustream.tv/channel/social-data-revolution
… and: Announcing the $1k SDR video contest!

We will have a reception after class, generously sponsored by Fox Interactive Media:

Fans of the Social Data Revolution, students of Stats 252, and friends! Join us at the SDR reception today right after class. Mingle, drink, and eat. Yummy Jamaican food will be catered by Mango Café. Share ideas, and give us feedback, and let’s plan the future! Please RSVP at facebook.com/event.php?eid=87957816823. Thank you. The get-together will be in the lounge and courtyard of the Statistics Department, Sequoia Hall, 390 Serra Mall, Stanford.

stanford2009.wikispaces.com (course wiki)
www.facebook.com/socialdatarevolution (FB page)
youtube.com/socialdatarevolution (short videos)