11 month ago
bmilleare : ORM on a Shoestring | Omar Kattan - Search Engine Marketing Expert
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27 month ago
Linkorama : Digital Footprints - However, few monitor their online presence with great regularity. Just 3% of self-searchers report that they make a regular habit of it and 74% have checked up on their digital footprints only once or twice.
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29 month ago
Linkorama : From Corporate Responsibility to Backstory Management - A product's backstory, you'll remember, is everything that happened to get the object or service to us, everything that will happen behind the scenes while we use it, and everything that will happen after it leaves our lives. The backstory tells us who we
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32 month ago
Linkorama : The UCSC Wiki Lab - "The idea is very simple," de Alfaro said. "If your contribution lasts, you gain reputation. If your contribution is reverted [to the previous version], your reputation falls."
Simon Willison : Wikipedia trust colouring (with demo) - Wikipedia trust colouring (with demo). “The text background of Wikipedia articles is colored according to a value of trust, computed from the reputation of the authors who contributed the text, as well as those who edited the text.” [via]
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37 month ago
Linkorama : Gaming email currency - there's that old business plan again. problem is getting critical mass, however
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38 month ago
cameron : Digg removes the top user list - Yet another successful community takes down its ranking (cf. Flickr)
Simon Willison : Digg to drop their global "top users" list - Digg to drop their global “top users†list. It’s fascinating how big an effect a simple feature like a top users list can have on the social behaviour of a site.
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40 month ago
Jeremy Zawodny : How Matt Haughey Beat Google - How Matt Haughey Beat Google: Anil compares the workings of Ask MetaFilter to Google Answers
Linkorama : How Matt Haughey Beat Google - In short, Google doesn't have a community to leverage.
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43 month ago
plasticbag : Cameron Marlow talks about privacy, transparency and the Facebook controversy - I've been thinking about this a lot recently and have come to the conclusion that it's never so much about how private something is, it's about how much it deviates from what people expected the privacy level to be in that particular service...
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43 month ago
plasticbag : Trustmojo - On ongoing project investigating trust on the new web. Interesting ideas, beautiful site.
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43 month ago
plasticbag : The Web Credibility Project - Another interesting project from Stanford researching how and why people evaluate what to read or believe online.
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47 month ago
deusx : Phil Windley's Technometria | Wiki Wednesday - "So what features are needed and central to the notion of a wiki?"
Linkorama : Wiki Wednesday - Eugene was being controversial and said that recent improvements to wikis are missing the point. Wikis are transformational tools for communities. They are neutral space. So what features are needed and central to the notion of a wiki?
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49 month ago
joshua : Moderation Strategies | Main / HomePage - Strategies of online moderation
kellan : Shirky: A Pattern Language for Moderation Strategies - I love pattern languages, and this is an excellent start. E.g. main problems with community can be addressed by MakeIdentityValuable #
plasticbag : Upsettingly - but perhaps unsurprisingly - Clay Shirky's moderation strategies wiki has been overrun by revolting porno spam - It's all spurts and holes and sluts now. Very upsetting, but probably predictable. The open wiki is pretty much a thing of the past now already.
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51 month ago
Linkorama : Sun Pres Says Blogging Impacted Its Business - Sun has gone from the 99th to the 6th most popular server company, largely because it has embraced authenticity and transparency in its communication initiatives, according to the piece.
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51 month ago
plasticbag : Technoranki - a weblog ranking and authority service - I have no idea whether this is any good or not as a service, except that it seems to be being used by the BritBlogs people for their charts at the moment. Anyone got any experience or thougts about it?
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52 month ago
Linkorama : Collective Choice: Rating Systems - the average of 5 is 4
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52 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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54 month ago
kellan : EBay not actually acquiring VeriSign - So we won't be seeing 'Do you trust this certificate? A++++ excellent certificate, would do secure business with it again!!!' anytime soon. A pity. I would have rated the comment +5 insightful, not +5 funny. #
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57 month ago
Linkorama : Paranoid vs. Panacea - "bloggers need not apply": maintaining status quo in academia
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