I posted yesterday about the DARPA Network Challenge, and the MIT team for it.  The balloons were released this morning, and the MIT team won!  I looked a little more into the MIT team, and from their site:

We are a group of researchers at M.I.T. interested in understanding the role of social networks in information spreading.

Looks like they’re from the Media Lab.  Cool stuff.  DARPA doesn’t have any analysis about what strategies people used, but supposedly they’ll have that soon.  I tried to find what other people have done, but it seems like to see the other good strategies, we’ll have to wait for the report.