27 month ago
plasticbag : Slashdot's discussion on Facebook and its recent problems with privacy is pretty interesting - I need to develop and extend some of my ideas around this territory quite bit.
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27 month ago
plasticbag : "Online video vault YouTube is place to see and be seen" - Medium-dull article features some less dull insights into why people do this kind of stuff in the first place from Clay Shirky, who - frankly - gets around a bit online...
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plasticbag : Stowe Boyd discusses 'Efficiency v Belonging' in social tools - There's a bunch of research on why people participate in online communities, but very little on why they contribute to projects like Wikipedia (as far as I know). If anyone knows of some, could they tell me?
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Andy Baio : Google Image Labeler, the Google Images multiplayer game - Luis von Ahn's ESP Game now officially part of Image Search; see also, his excellent Tech Talk at Google
plasticbag : Google Image Labeler - Basically it's the ESP game from a few years ago, only now actually being used (presumably under license) by Google. Interesting.
philgyford : Google Image Labeler - I'm trying not to let this useful game eat up all of my time, although it's getting a fair amount of it.
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31 month ago
cameron : O'Reilly Radar > Rewarding Users for Contributing Data - Monetary or material incentives aren't all that effective, "And once the reward is worth money, you'll get people contributing crap just to get the rewards. Your reward system is now paying people to piss in your data pool."
plasticbag : Nat Torkington on 'Rewarding Users for Contributing Data' - I couldn't agree more with a lot of this - points-based reputation / prestige systems and financial incentives are generally bad ways to reward contributions in social environments.
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