5 month ago
Andy Baio : Twubble, search for people you might know on Twitter - exceedingly easy to use, but must be hammering the Twitter API
Linkorama : Twubble - Twubble can help expand your Twitter bubble—it searches your friend graph and picks out people who you may like to follow.
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7 month ago
Linkorama : How Google, Wikipedia Have Changed Our Lives -- For Better and Worse | PBS - And that’s the trade-off: What you gain in speed of delivery you often lose in quality of information, not to mention the most intangible benefit of the way we used to get information: seeking it out slowly, wondering, theorizing, discovering and feelin
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8 month ago
Linkorama : Thinking more about Digital Dunbar Numbers - The Dunbar number is actually an absolute for someone at a moment in time. Our cognitive capacity can be augmented by the ability to discover or rediscover a tie, while letting another one implicitly disappear into the background, waiting to be rediscover
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17 month ago
Linkorama : Thinking about Discovery - Persistance (SocialText and HiveLive), Contextual (Newsgator, Lijit and Collective Intelligence), Peripheral (Jaiku and Twitter), Dynamic (Radar Networks)
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27 month ago
Rod Begbie : Musicovery : webRadio - Yet Another Flash Music Discovery App. Really like the "Dark/Calm/Positive/Energetic" axes. [via] #
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28 month ago
kellan : Link discovery and suggestion ... the Bernstein way - Martin collects links to Mark Bernstein's recent (and not so recent) work on link discovery and suggestion. #
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28 month ago
cameron : YouTube - How William Shatner Changed the World - Discovery documentary of the effects of Shatman on technology
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28 month ago
Linkorama : Paying Attention - Great wrap up of a thread of attention as a sharing property enabled by discovery
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29 month ago
Linkorama : CEOs Look to Flexible Teams to Drive Margins - It turns out the CEO's sought-after pockets of discovery, within the workgroup, across the firm, and beyond to customers and partners, are no longer the stuff of future dreams. It's happening today and everyday inside wikis.
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32 month ago
plasticbag : Podzinger makes podcasts searchable by performing speech recognition upon them... - Media analysis is only one of the three ways you can accrete metadata around a media object. Also worth considering - production metadata and post-release public annotation...
Linkorama : PODZINGER - PodZinger enables one to quickly, easily and reliably search the Web for podcasts and locate specific information at the exact location in the audio file and is based on 30 years of speech recognition research and development from BBN Technologies.
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33 month ago
Rod Begbie : Internet encyclopaedias go head to head : Nature - Nature magazine performed a blind peer-review of several science topics in Wikipedia and Encyclopædia Britannica. Perhaps surprisingly, the number and type of errors in both were very similar, although the experts found the writing in Wikipedia to be [via] #
Linkorama : Internet encyclopaedias go head to head - Peer review proof point
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33 month ago
Linkorama : The four application pillars of enterprise 3.0 - JP Rangaswami, CIO at top global investment bank Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein (DrKW) gave his prediction last week at a private gathering in London of some of the world's leading enterprise software practitioners.
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33 month ago
Linkorama : Recasting architecture - More on the DrKW enterprise summit
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34 month ago
Linkorama : Re-becoming Indigenous - Capacities of Learning & Discovery
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plasticbag : Steven Berlin Johnson moots two types of writers - those who own a space and those that traverse multiple spaces - which seems to have resonance to those of us whose work traverses subject areas - For a while in 2000/2001 it felt like I could have become a pundit or consultant around weblogs of all things, but I went in another direction and then another after that. I wonder if that was the right thing to do...
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