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deusx : wayneandwax.com » Songs as Shared Things - "Songs have always been shareable and shared. People, young and old, share songs with each other – by singing or playing them - in a variety of ways and settings, through a variety of technologies and media or other manner of accompaniment (as well
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deusx : Study concludes Wikipedians are a bunch of grumpy introverts - Ars Technica - "A study making the rounds suggests that Wikipedians may feel at home online, in part because they're grumpy introverts. But the results need to be interpreted very cautiously, as they were based on only 69 contributors from a single nation, a t
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deusx : Find, Follow and Share Comments — BackType - "BackType is a conversational search engine. We index and connect millions of conversations from blogs, social networks and other social media so people can find, follow and share comments. BackType was founded in June, 2008 by Christopher Golda and
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Andy Baio : Backbars, Greasemonkey script adds ambient bar charts to social news sites - unobtrusively visualizes popularity on Metafilter, Delicious, Reddit, Hacker News, etc [via]
joshua : elzr: Backbars on social link-sites - ambient visualization of system popularity
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deusx : Ficly - A better, shorter story - "We believe in the art of creating stories and the craft of sharing them. We are inspired by the written word and the authors that link words and phrases together to form tales. Ficly is a place for playing with story-telling; a collaborative enviro
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deusx : Spymaster: The Twitter Game That Will Assassinate Your Time - Huh, and I worked with Eston when he was an intern at Organic in Detroit. Awesome.
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nelson : Why Twitter is good - Simple explanation of the value of casual social media
Andy Baio : Kottke's In Defense of Twitter - inspired by Dowd's dumb interview; Geoff Manaugh and Rex argue the media's threatened by new writers, again
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Andy Baio : 4chan manipulates all 21 top results on the TIME 100 Poll - not content to just push Moot to the top, they rearranged the results to spell a message
deusx : Precision Hacking « Music Machinery - "Not only has the poll been swamped to promote Moot (the pseudonym of the creator of 4chan, an image board and the birthpace for many internet memes) as the most influential of people, the poll crashers have manipulated the order of all the other nom
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deusx : But Where is the Ability to Throw Sheep in this Plan? | ::HorsePigCow:: marketing uncommon - "There it was. The thing that was nagging me all along: when you are designing a user experience, how do you leave room for (or even encourage) the fun, seemingly non-productive behavior that users engage in. The stuff that encourages light interacti
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deusx : Building Sites Around Social Objects (Live from Web 2.0) - ReadWriteWeb - "This morning at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, Jyri Engeström, co-founder of Jaiku and now Google employee, spoke about building sites around social objects. What this means is that the social sites we visit today are not just friend networks -
Simon Willison : Building sites around social objects - Building sites around social objects. Jyri Engeström’s concept of “social objects” is a genuinely useful new way to talk about social web sites.
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Linkorama : Search is broken, really broken. - So there’s an opportunity. Realtime search, using social inference for discovery, ranking and prioritization.
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Douglas Bowman : Regarding The Personal Web - Dan Benjamin pontificates on the state of blogging and longer-form posts vs. shorter Twitter-like posts. Interesting commentary toward the end that to really participate means having more than one channel or form of contributions. -archive link-
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doug : Regarding The Personal Web - Dan Benjamin pontificates on the state of blogging and longer-form posts vs. shorter Twitter-like posts. Interesting commentary toward the end that to really participate means having more than one channel or form of contributions. link
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doug : Regarding The Personal Web - Dan Benjamin pontificates on the state of blogging and longer-form posts vs. shorter Twitter-like posts. Interesting commentary toward the end that to really participate means having more than one channel or form of contributions.
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philgyford : Doodle: Easy Scheduling - Another way to arrange group events. (via Haddock)
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deusx : How to Start Speaking at Events | chrisbrogan.com - "One day, I wasn’t a speaker at conferences, and then I was. And then a little while later, I was a paid speaker. And now, I’m a decently paid speaker. Some day, I hope to be a really well-paid speaker"
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deusx : Using del.icio.us as a writing summarization tool (by Jeremy Zawodny) - "It occurs to me that with a sufficient number of people bookmarking an article and selecting a short passage from it, I have a useful way to figure out what statement(s) most resonated with those readers (and possibly a much larger audience). It
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Jeremy Zawodny : GitHub and Git: Sharing Your Code, for What It’s Worth... - GitHub and Git: Sharing Your Code, for What It’s Worth...: "This is a pivot of the traditional open source project website. A pivot from project to programmer."
deusx : Alan’s Kiloblog » GitHub and Git: Sharing Your Code, for What It’s Worth, Without a Begging Entry into Open Source Communities - "I am sharing my code. I am not launching an open source project. I am not beginning a search for like minded developers to avoid duplication of efforts. I am not showing up at someone else’s door hat in hand, asking for commit access. I am not loo
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deusx : ASCII by Jason Scott: When the BBS Broke Free - "Consider for a moment, if you will, how much computer you're seeing in this shot. Each of those machines is a fully set up PC compatible, with the attendant costs of memory, hard drive, and internal cards. They are all connected to modems (some
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Greg Storey : Throwing a party on your Xbox. - Sounds like a girl thing.
deusx : Video Games 2.0: Throwing A Party On Your Xbox (Three Minds On Digital Marketing @ Organic) - Nerdy, but I could actually see this being kinda fun, wearing a headset on the couch MST3K'ing with some friends locally and cross-country. "Instead of only communicating, Microsoft is going one step further. They have partnered with Netflix to
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Richard Rutter : SnaffleUp – nicely designed alternative to Freecycle - Looks good, but could do with better location-based searching.
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10 month ago
Richard Rutter : Dopplr’s Find-and-Invite code open sourced - Good on the Dopplr guys for putting this in the wild.
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10 month ago
Richard Rutter : Dopplr’s Find-and-Invite code open sourced - Good on the Dopplr guys for putting this in the wild.
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10 month ago
deusx : Raptr Blog » Raptr Public Beta Launch! - "No more secret handshakes, no more private invites; we’re proud to open the doors to Raptr and share the service in an open public beta! ... Raptr was born out of a stellar team of people who are passionate about playing and discovering games. ...
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11 month ago
Andy Baio : Tom Armitage on what games can learn from social software - I love this talk, great reading for both game and web geeks [via]
deusx : Infovore » Playing Together: What Games Can Learn from Social Software - "MMO servers are currently limited by technological sizes. But what does a server where you know everybody (even a little) look like? What if we limited group sizes for social, not technological reasons? ... We wouldn’t have these servers that rese
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