21 month ago
Andy Baio : Ex-Google Answers researchers launch Q&A site - including 9 of the top 12 most prolific answerers
cameron : Ex-Google Answers Researchers Launch Q&A Site - Same pay structure, same experience. I wonder if it'll garner traffic without the Google name?
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23 month ago
cameron : Twitter: A website about nothing - Tom Rose regarding Twitter: "This is like the Seinfeld of the internet — a website about nothing. Rather addicting, though."
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cameron : Flickr passes 300,000,000 uploads - Once numbers get past the millions, I find it hard to comprehend. Let's say half of those photos no longer exist and the average photo is .5mb, that's still 75TB of photos. Dag, yo.
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24 month ago
cameron : mixd. 445566. - Mixd... Yahoo's mobile social organization service
Jeremy Zawodny : mixd. 445566. - mixd. 445566.: "It's easy to create mobile text groups and to share your mobile pix and videos with your friends."
Nelson Minar : mixd shutdown? - Yahoo's twitter like service is being disabled Feb 25. Is it coming back?
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cameron : Welcome to Confabb: The Conference Community - Social media site for conferences. I was wondering when someone would build this application. It's amazing how many there are; of 16k conferences, 2 of my regulars are indexed.
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cameron : DailyStrength - Health support groups integrating social networking and conversations around conditions and treatments.
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25 month ago
cameron : TL;DR - Anil blathers on about attention or something. I couldn't make it to the end because it was SO LONG.
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cameron : Wired News: Wired Acquires Reddit - Wired's announcement of their acquisition of the social bookmarking/digg-style site Reddit
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26 month ago
cameron : Facebook Beta Testing Social Bookmarking - I'm impressed at the messaging Facebook does around its features, and how they reduce them to the core functionality (blogging, links, etc.). Very nice.
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cameron : Spike the Vote! - "My name is Spike. I'm tired of 30 elite users (or bots, perhaps) controlling the front page content of digg.com." Spike wants to control what gets on the front page.
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26 month ago
Andy Baio : My printer, my social letterbox - remote social printing for friends and family; absolutely brilliant idea, but especially for photos
joshua : social printing - love it
cameron : My printer, my social letterbox - Bringing networking back to the physical world.
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26 month ago
cameron : Back to School with the Class of Web 2.0: Part 1 - A bunch of social education systems aimed at wired students. Makes me wish I had some classes to study for.
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27 month ago
cameron : Larry Sanger, Citizendium, and the Problem of Expertise. - Clay Shirky on Citizendium and a few fallacies of experts
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27 month ago
cameron : The "Citizendium" - A "progressive fork" of Wikipedia by cofounder Larry Sanger which will allow experts to have more control of the site.
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44 month ago
ricmac : Multiply - new social search engine - Claims to be "the first search engine that finds information that's been published in one's social network."
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46 month ago
ricmac : Feedster and New Zealand search company Eurekster team up (via Susan Mernit) - Eurekster did a deal with Friendster in Dec I think. Good to see a kiwi company making it in the Valley!
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47 month ago
ricmac : Business Logs: LinkedIn and Social Working - LinkedIn getting some buzz for its job-hunting capabilities. Must check out.
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47 month ago
ricmac : Anil Dash: Accountability and Culture in a Loosely Coupled World - Anil Dash talks about content being taken out of context when aggregated, and other things. Interesting comment by Tom Coates about "decontextualisation will be met by other tools to recontextualise".
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ricmac : Many-to-Many: Attention as a Social Fact - "...one of the better tactics for dealing with information overload is not fully processing every message you come across."
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47 month ago
ricmac : Lucas Gonze: Mixversational music - "Remixing is about bouncing ideas back and forth, conversational flow, jamming."
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47 month ago
ricmac : apophenia: The Cultural Divide Between LiveJournal and Six Apart - One commenter noted that LJers aren't interested in "internet presence" - "...they're on LJ to keep up with their friends' day-to-day lives, because it's easier than email."
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