A system and method for providing awards and rewards to social media users for the content/posts they upload to their social media profiles is disclosed. The system uses a content management manager for creating, managing, and displaying a user timeline for each of the social media users, an ad insertion engine for creating, managing, and inserting ads into the user timeline for each of the social media users, an awards manager for awarding each of the social media users rewards in exchange for watching ads before viewing content, and a marketsquare manager for creating, managing, and displaying items for sale in an online marketplace in which each of the social media users may be buyers and seller.

An automobile maintenance application may link automobile owners with service providers and provide service reminders based on manufacturers' recommended scheduled maintenance. The automobile maintenance application may maintain maintenance records for automobiles. The automobile maintenance application may provide a system for service providers to send targeted advertisements to automobile owners in need of a service. The maintenance application may allow automobile owners to compare the prices and services of local service providers and benefit from the value associated with competition between service providers that is realized during a live or proxy auction.

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for optimizing the placement of advertisement blocks on a web page.

Method and system for localizing an element present in a piece of content having a plurality of elements. A cost of localizing an element with respect to each of one or more localization sources is first computed. At least one criterion based on which a localization source for localizing the element is to be determined is obtained. A localization source for localizing the element is then selected based on an assessment with respect to the at least one criterion. The element of the content is then localized using the selected localization source.

A method and system, the method including capturing country-specific parameters of a risk-exposed country relating to stored predefined criteria, assigning one or more disaster event types to a disaster history table, capturing and storing mapping parameters for a geographic risk map, assigning each of a plurality of selectable disaster financing types to a definable cost factor capturing the capital cost of the disaster financing type in relation to its application for disaster mitigation, determining expected catastrophe losses by a loss frequency function and the geographic risk map for various scenarios of occurring natural disaster event types, and preparing a forecast of an effect of the disaster financing type to cover the catastrophe losses based on the coverage structure, the assigned cost factors, and the determined expected catastrophe losses

Computer-based systems and methods for discovering neighborhood clusters in a geographic region, where the clusters have a mix of venues and are determined based on venue check-in data. The mix of venues for the clusters may be based on the social similarity between pairs of venues; or emblematic of certain neighborhood typologies; or emblematic of temporal check-in pattern types; or combinations thereof. The neighborhood clusters that are so discovered through venue-check in data could be used for many commercial and civic purposes.

An event detection (ED) computing device is provided. The ED computing device includes a processor in communication with a memory. The processor is configured to receive real time data from a real time data source, including location data and transaction data, and calculate a first data derivative based at least in part on the received location data and transaction data. The ED computing device is also configured to identify an event associated with the first location based at least in part on the received location data and transaction data and store an identified event data structure in a database. The ED computing device is configured to retrieve notification rules associated with a first stakeholder, compare the a data derivative to the notification rules, and transmit a notification to the first stakeholder based at least in part on the comparison.

A real-time negotiation system to provide functionality to generate and cause display of specially configured graphical user interface for real-time negotiation within a networked marketplace. According to certain example embodiments, aspects of the real-time negotiation systems include various functional components to perform operations that include receiving a signal from a user, via a first client device, wherein the signal indicates an implicit interest in a first item that comprises a set of item attributes.

Embodiments of systems and methods for the aggregation, analysis, display and monetization of pricing data for commodities in general, and which may be particularly useful applied to vehicles are disclosed. Specifically, in certain embodiments, historical transaction data associated with a particular vehicle configuration may be obtained and processed to determine pricing data associated with the vehicle configuration. The historical transaction data or determined pricing data may then be presented in an intuitive manner.

Systems and methods are disclosed herein for integration distinct data sets to provide a multidimensional view of a phenomenon of interest. For example, a method is disclosed comprising obtaining at least one first characteristic value associated with a first geographically defined area of a plurality of geographically defined areas and a plurality of second characteristic values each associated with a census tract of a plurality of census tracts; assigning census tracts to the first geographically defined area when the census tracts lie completely within the first geographically defined area; identifying one or more census tracts of the plurality of census tracts that intersect the first geographically defined area; and assigning the identified one or more census tracts to the first geographically defined area based on a comparison of a sum of the second characteristic values of the identified one or more census tracts against the at least one first characteristic value of the first geographically defined area.