3 month ago
Linkorama : The Trouble with Twitter - This piece misunderstands the Dunbar number of 150. Its constraint for a moment in time, and who is in your 150 changes all the time
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6 month ago
Linkorama : Incentives In Online Social Communities - Yaniv Golan, CTO of Yedda, had given a brilliant presentation regarding Incentives In Online Social Communities a few weeks ago at The Marker COM.vention and since it’s unfortunately in Hebrew, I wanted to translate it, include some of my own additions,
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8 month ago
Linkorama : Participation, Power and Social Influence Marketing? - By developing strategies and campaigns for each phase of this curve, companies can begin to shape and measure the practice of Social Influence Marketing.
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18 month ago
Linkorama : The Power of Power Laws - Gaussian distributions tend to prevail when events are completely independent of each other. As soon as you introduce the assumption of interdependence across events, Paretian distributions tend to surface because positive feedback loops tend to amplify
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19 month ago
Linkorama : 10 Tools to Take You from Reading to Leading - I always recommend that you start understanding social media sites by reading. And that you make it easy for yourself by subscribing. And once you’re ready to put your toe in the participation water, begin commenting. Once you’ve begun to participate,
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Linkorama : The Collaboration Factor of Innovation - So what is open innovation? Henry Chesbrough coined that term that more or less argues that competitive advantage comes from outside your corporate firewalls. So it’s about how to make use of external sources for internal growth: from closed to ope
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28 month ago
Linkorama : Notes on Designing for Participation - I participated on a panel at Webvisions about encouraging companies to engage customers online. I wanted to put down what I said in a coherent manner for those who weren't there.
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31 month ago
Linkorama : the uses of participation - What if I started again and thought about how cultural participation through consumer-created media might actually have positive implications for cultural citizenship? Would the graph look different?
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31 month ago
Linkorama : Iterative Media - Treating Collaborative Media Like Open Source Code
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33 month ago
Linkorama : Power Grab - Tests find DRM shortens player battery life by up to ~25%
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40 month ago
Linkorama : The Urban Long Tail - But I've put together a new column for Discover that looks at the long tail question in the context of cities.
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40 month ago
Andy Baio : Amazon's long tail shorter than previous estimates - the original Wired article said 57%; new research shows closer to 25%
cameron : The Long Tail: A methodology for estimating Amazon's Long Tail sales - The 57% long-tail argument is way off, closer to 20%
jkottke : Amazon's Long Tail getting shorter - Long Tail poster boy Amazon's tail isn't as long as first reported. Oops. (But a good oops...Chris is after the truth here, not just a good story.)
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40 month ago
Linkorama : Who Designed the Bell Curve - Bob: The danger in positing a designer is that it denies us the ability to explore and learn more.
deusx : SATN.org: Who "designed" the Bell Curve? - "The danger in positing a designer is that it denies us the ability to explore and learn more."
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42 month ago
plasticbag : A weird little almost-anti-long-tail story from Nature.com: How long did it take you to find this story? - It's states that most people who are ever going to read an online new story (blog post) will have done so within three days of publishing...
deusx : news @ nature.com - Life is short in online news - How long did it take you to find this story? - "Will it have typical time history, or might it get picked up by popular blogs and given a new lease of life? Nature will monitor its fate and reveal the results in a week's time. Watch this space."
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50 month ago
Andy Baio : Wired on "The Long Tail" of the economics of scarcity - the biggest money is in the smallest sales [via] [via]
Wayne Burkett : Wired 12.10: The Long Tail - A *must-read* for anyone at all interested in how the internet has changed how media are consumed (and how the whiny dinosaurs can get over it and still make money). #
cameron : Wired 12.10: The Long Tail - Online retailers can take advantage of the tail of a power law
Adam Gessaman : The Long Tail - So there are real journalists out there still.
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